My guess would be Netflix does not care or does not care much
well, they should care. companies should care when their product is associated with a negative experience, even if it's indirect. it's the same reason that the coca-cola corporation does not want the news airing video of someone beating their spouse holding a can of coke. advertising (positive and negative) is to a large degree subconscious.
If Netflix sold the time codes to RadioShack up front, I don't think they particularly care what happens to them
they certainly do care about customers being pissed off at netflix because of RS's screw up. i know, it's technically RS's fault, but companies don't want their name associated with any sort of bad experience.
why don't you go count the number of awful web sites? go ahead. i'll wait. do you really think there are more terrible pointless mobile apps than terrible pointless websites?
Go on Ebay, check for repair parts. LCD is 150$, camera module, ect ect are all there and can bring in a good amount of money.
that doesn't create new phones. no one is assembling new phones from stolen parts. and the market for stolen camera modules from a specific make and model of a phone is much, much smaller than the market for shiny new phones.
There's no need for Samsung to do it -- this capability is already in every Android phone that uses Google Apps. It's enabled by default, although users can disable it. You can even disable the two things independently of each other: phone location and phone wiping.
there are two issues. loss / theft of data and loss of property. having remote wipe like apple or google offers doesn't reduce inventive to steal a phone. it can still be reset and sold.
You are responsible for your own property. If you can't hold on to your phone buy some theft insurance for it.
that, or just utilize one of the free or extremely cheap remote wipe solutions already available. all apple devices have it. all google android devices have it. i'm sure it's available in one form or another for any semi-modern device.
Second, if a stolen phone attaches to the cellular network, the carrier should be required to contact the police with location information.
right, because our local police will have time to send a squad car and detective to search the 4-50 residences that map to that location. or maybe the residents will just refuse... in which case the officer needs to go before a judge to get a search warrant. if any part of this plan requires law enforcement to get involved for it to work, forget it.
modern IDEs use the same make tools regardless. for example, Android Studio just uses for gradle build infrastructure from within the IDE to build... the same stuff to exec from the command line.
hope there's something about your idea that makes it un-copiable.
the apps that rule are the ones that have a team of developers, QE, sales, and marketing behind them. if you don't have (or need) that, then your idea is worthless. long gone are the days when you can make the bic lighter app and reach millions of users. stores are flooded with developers ready to copy whatever's good, and they'll probably do a better job than you with the benefit of hindsight.
pointing out that a person could have a real AR setup for less than what GG costs
you could also buy a *real* bicycle, or a *real* cheesburger. what's your point?
maybe you were just pointing out, arbitrarily, what else in the world can be purchased for 1.5k, but to the rest of the world, by mentioning that you can get a "real" VR rig for the same price, you are implying that GG is some sort of, or related to VR hardware. it isn't.
They might not be so evil at present. But what happens years down the road when they decide to be evil?
no corporation is ever evil, they are just profit seeking. google is profitable if they have a lot of users, so it's in their best interest to keep them happy. doing things people don't like w/ their data doesn't make them happy. more than most other companies that possess your personal data, google has a motive to not abuse it.
also, have you considered what happens if your health insurance company becomes evil? your mortgage provider? your auto insurance company? you have a lot to worry about.
This isn't normally needed because they go into the background, and after a certain time (less than an hour I'm sure, probably 10 minutes or less but I'm not sure exactly) are shut down automatically.
they are only shutdown for resource management resources. if your system isn't low of resources, they'll run forever. there are also developer provisions to keep them running (think of a media player).
having 50-ish percent of the smartphone market, ~15% of the laptop market (and the lions share of the high-end laptop market), and being the 9th most profitable company in the world packs a pretty hard punch.
Likely because it inhabits a very profitable niche
what niche is that? smartphones, tablets, or laptop PCs?
What the summary describes is a lowest of low attempt that goes well beyond any real legal entitlement
you read this part, right?
Ransom found that his rival had taken things to a whole new level by purchasing the rights to a game called Candy Crusher and using that as leverage to cancel the CandySwipe trademark
if the timeline is CandyCrusher > CandySwipe > Candy Crush Saga... the entity w/ the rights to CandyCrusher has a real legal entitlement. it really sucks for the developer of CandySwipe, but it sounds like it was legally outmaneuvered.
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My guess would be Netflix does not care or does not care much
well, they should care. companies should care when their product is associated with a negative experience, even if it's indirect. it's the same reason that the coca-cola corporation does not want the news airing video of someone beating their spouse holding a can of coke. advertising (positive and negative) is to a large degree subconscious.
If Netflix sold the time codes to RadioShack up front, I don't think they particularly care what happens to them
they certainly do care about customers being pissed off at netflix because of RS's screw up. i know, it's technically RS's fault, but companies don't want their name associated with any sort of bad experience.
My prediction: bitcoin will drop a lot
the news has been out for a few days, and BTC is up.
Mobile developers, don't make awful shit. Please.
why don't you go count the number of awful web sites? go ahead. i'll wait. do you really think there are more terrible pointless mobile apps than terrible pointless websites?
users install the app right?
Go on Ebay, check for repair parts. LCD is 150$, camera module, ect ect are all there and can bring in a good amount of money.
that doesn't create new phones. no one is assembling new phones from stolen parts. and the market for stolen camera modules from a specific make and model of a phone is much, much smaller than the market for shiny new phones.
There's no need for Samsung to do it -- this capability is already in every Android phone that uses Google Apps. It's enabled by default, although users can disable it. You can even disable the two things independently of each other: phone location and phone wiping.
there are two issues. loss / theft of data and loss of property. having remote wipe like apple or google offers doesn't reduce inventive to steal a phone. it can still be reset and sold.
You are responsible for your own property. If you can't hold on to your phone buy some theft insurance for it.
that, or just utilize one of the free or extremely cheap remote wipe solutions already available. all apple devices have it. all google android devices have it. i'm sure it's available in one form or another for any semi-modern device.
Second, if a stolen phone attaches to the cellular network, the carrier should be required to contact the police with location information.
right, because our local police will have time to send a squad car and detective to search the 4-50 residences that map to that location. or maybe the residents will just refuse ... in which case the officer needs to go before a judge to get a search warrant. if any part of this plan requires law enforcement to get involved for it to work, forget it.
... until someone hacks into a carriers network, and deactivates and wipes EVERY PHONE on the carriers registry.
google and apple both have remote wipe. seems like that's big enough of a target to lure hackers.
maybe your point was that carriers are less competent than google or apple. point taken.
The only way Intel can compete is if they sell their mobile chips at or below cost.
yes, and that's how they crushed AMD. they are good at this.
modern IDEs use the same make tools regardless. for example, Android Studio just uses for gradle build infrastructure from within the IDE to build ... the same stuff to exec from the command line.
hope there's something about your idea that makes it un-copiable.
the apps that rule are the ones that have a team of developers, QE, sales, and marketing behind them. if you don't have (or need) that, then your idea is worthless. long gone are the days when you can make the bic lighter app and reach millions of users. stores are flooded with developers ready to copy whatever's good, and they'll probably do a better job than you with the benefit of hindsight.
pointing out that a person could have a real AR setup for less than what GG costs
you could also buy a *real* bicycle, or a *real* cheesburger. what's your point?
maybe you were just pointing out, arbitrarily, what else in the world can be purchased for 1.5k, but to the rest of the world, by mentioning that you can get a "real" VR rig for the same price, you are implying that GG is some sort of, or related to VR hardware. it isn't.
GG isn't and doesn't purport to be augmented reality. it doesn't overlay the field of vision.
My theory is that in this point they are pretty much willing to give a pair to anyone who has $1500 to blow
yes, i have a similar "theory" about apple: they will "give" a macbook pro to anyone who has $2.5k to "blow". just a theory mind you.
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conclusion: you forget to take your meds today.
no, it's a choice of whether to spend $1500 now or spend $600 (or whatever) 6-9 months for now when it's available to the general public.
They might not be so evil at present. But what happens years down the road when they decide to be evil?
no corporation is ever evil, they are just profit seeking. google is profitable if they have a lot of users, so it's in their best interest to keep them happy. doing things people don't like w/ their data doesn't make them happy. more than most other companies that possess your personal data, google has a motive to not abuse it.
also, have you considered what happens if your health insurance company becomes evil? your mortgage provider? your auto insurance company? you have a lot to worry about.
This isn't normally needed because they go into the background, and after a certain time (less than an hour I'm sure, probably 10 minutes or less but I'm not sure exactly) are shut down automatically.
they are only shutdown for resource management resources. if your system isn't low of resources, they'll run forever. there are also developer provisions to keep them running (think of a media player).
The point of this is that you don't need to look at it.
you also don't need to look at a knob, so what problem are we fixing? the car industry's need to gouge me for the latest in automotive technology?
having 50-ish percent of the smartphone market, ~15% of the laptop market (and the lions share of the high-end laptop market), and being the 9th most profitable company in the world packs a pretty hard punch.
Likely because it inhabits a very profitable niche
what niche is that? smartphones, tablets, or laptop PCs?
A picture frame is a picture frame. A phone is a phone.
so you are one of those people that think that if you append "on a phone" to any patent it becomes unique.
What the summary describes is a lowest of low attempt that goes well beyond any real legal entitlement
you read this part, right?
Ransom found that his rival had taken things to a whole new level by purchasing the rights to a game called Candy Crusher and using that as leverage to cancel the CandySwipe trademark
if the timeline is CandyCrusher > CandySwipe > Candy Crush Saga ... the entity w/ the rights to CandyCrusher has a real legal entitlement. it really sucks for the developer of CandySwipe, but it sounds like it was legally outmaneuvered.
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