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rsmiller510 writes:
Spain's new tax on linking to Spanish newspaper articles is ill defined and short sighted and ends up protecting a dying industry, while undermining a vibrant one. In another case of disrupted industries turning to lawmakers to solve their problems, this one makes no sense at all, especially given the state of the Spanish economy and the fact that it comes 15 years too late to even matter.
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rsmiller510 writes:
It would seem on its face that simply asking your users what they need in an app would be the easiest way to build one, but it turns out it's not quite that simple. People often don't know what they want or need or they can't articulate it in a way that's useful to you. They may say I want Google or Dropbox for the enterprise, but they don't get that developers can be so much more creative than that. And the best way to understand those users' needs is to watch what they do, then use your own skills to build apps to make their working lives better or easier.
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rsmiller510 writes:
After all of the hype, it was surprising how much The Daily, the new News Corp iPad daily newspaper looks like a conventional news magazine. Ultimately, though, it's an old model in a new package and as such will fail.
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rsmiller510 writes:
Open source operating systems have a lot of upside, but when you give cell phone makers and providers the power to customize the phones to whatever degree they like, it could end up confusing consumers and watering down the Android label.
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rsmiller510 writes:
Could Apple's announcement about Ping, a music-based social network be Apple's social networking trojan horse? Facebook might want to be concerned.
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rsmiller510 writes:
A BusinessWeek report suggests that the Nexus One release marks the latest volley in an escalating war between Google and Apple, but could the two companies be better off working together and acting as a check against Microsoft?
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rsmiller510 writes:
Mark Cuban, the Dallas Mavericks owner has a plan to kill Google by paying the top 1K sites a cool million each to leave the Google index and move to Microsoft, but could such a plan ever work and would it be worth the risk to abandon Google?
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rsmiller510 writes:
In what seems to me be a short-sighted move, German book publishers have tried to stem the growth of the eBook market.
