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  1. Apple is not going to make money on modems on Apple's Internal Hardware Team Is Working On Modems That Will Likely Replace Intel (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    It will come at huge cost, increasing price of phones (gotta absorb R&D and production cost). Only companies specializing in modems make money from their production.
    And good luck with entering that market and not infringing on some patents.
    They'd be better off with making a joint venture with Intel.

    You have successful platform (iOS), that you make obscene money off. So gotta let your suppliers profit too. I get that Broadcom wanted big piece of pie, but thet's where competition come into picture.

    It is going to end up like their self driving car. All money in the world does not make you best in everything.

  2. Read only negative reviews for everything on How Companies Secretly Boost Their Glassdoor Ratings (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    ... see if they have any merit, and count them. And then just maybe compare them to overall number or reviews.

  3. I usually get kernel panic before anything else :)

  4. $200 for keyboard on Google Unveils Pixel Slate, Its First Laptop-Tablet Hybrid in Three Years (engadget.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Typical accessory scam.

  5. Don't want older engineers? on A Tesla on Autopilot Crashed Into a Parked Police Car (fortune.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You know, ones that worked on the safety systems in aerospace industry for the last several decades, using technologies that aren't cool in 21st century. Guess what you get with toddler engineers.

    I bet if they would use the ol' guys just as consultants the number of catastrophic failures would be near 0. Just like it is in the aerospace when you ignore the human factor.

  6. And how does Mozilla get their money?
    https://www.computerworld.com/...

  7. Re:Smells like BS on President Trump Pledges To Help China's ZTE, After Ban (usatoday.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    It is not about US market, it is about now being illegal for US companies to license software (like Google Play) and hardware (like CPU chips) to ZTE.

  8. if AMD didn't come up with its competitive lineup. Suddenly intel is all interested in making chips that are beyond regular evolution process of last 5-10 yrs.

  9. Apple's software quality has been bad for a while on iPhone X Bug Leaves Some Users Unable To Answer Calls (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    What's going on, how come that one of world's biggest companies can still afford to produce such buggy software? It is not like they cannot afford enough software testers.
    I don't think that they don't care either, maybe don't care enough anymore after somebody who really cared has died..

  10. Re:public funding, private profits on Trump Team Considers Nationalizing America's 5G Network (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't be so naive, they'll lease it back to gov't too...

  11. Not *my* definition of obsolete, just a small dose of sarcasm. It is definition that intel + Microsoft are going to be pushing.

  12. Folks, your CPUs 2015 and older are obsolete ... how convenient for Wintel.. get that fancy new CPU and another copy of Windows 10, because what you have today is OEM version, so with a new CPU you'll need a new Windows copy.

  13. Stuff that they don't track on Microsoft Dismisses Consumer Reports' Surface Complaints, But Doesn't Offer Much Evidence · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Is why 3 generations of this device can't properly go to sleep mode. Every other wake is either: device dead or wifi dead.

    But of course, you can blame it to testing methodology...

  14. It doesn't matter until upper midwest gets hot on Iranian City Soars To Record 129F Degrees: Near Hottest On Earth in Modern Measurements (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Because that's who decides who's going to be US president, and consequently person who can do the most about the global warming

  15. Re:Give up, Linux losers on Ubuntu Works With GNOME To Improve HiDPI Support On Linux Desktop (omgubuntu.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Except Windows has its own set of problems with DPI scaling. They were resolved mostly with windows 10, but still old apps that are not "DPI aware" look terrible.

  16. Those intel mobile modems must be geting good on Qualcomm Says Apple To Stop Paying Royalties (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    They wouldn't do this until they secured alternative...

  17. They claim that emperor still has clothes...

  18. Northern countries fare better on Happiness is on the Wane in the US, UN Global Report Finds (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Even with climate of extremely cold winters, top 5 are all countries from cold climate. Yet countries that are gifted good climate are well behind. Looks like folks appreciate more what they got if it is scarce.

  19. Apple's philosophy on Apple Is Expanding Its War With Qualcomm (fortune.com) · · Score: 0

    You really haven't won... ...until all others have lost.

  20. Maybe Valve is ok with failure, HTC is not on Valve 'Comfortable' If Virtual Reality Headsets Fail (bbc.com) · · Score: 0

    It is pretty much game over for HTC if this fails, since their phone business is not going too well...

  21. Re:MS Linux ??? on Microsoft Introduces GVFS (Git Virtual File System) (microsoft.com) · · Score: 1

    This worked just fine with Ubuntu for Windows 10 app.

  22. Media fanatics don't need Media Center? on Microsoft Gives Windows Device Makers Their 2017 Marching Orders (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Are they going to use Bing videos instead?

  23. If hell freezes over on Microsoft Joins the Linux Foundation (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    ...will it help with the global warming?

  24. Warranty for software is needed on Spotify Is Writing Massive Amounts of Junk Data To Storage Drives (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    That will teach 'em. It is absurd what programmers can do and get away with it, simply because you click on "I agree" on EULA starting with "No warranty"

    Yes, it is going to be expensive, but software is getting worse.

  25. And nearly 10 of 10 android phones are on old ... on Nearly 9 Out of 10 Smartphones Shipped Run On Android (cnet.com) · · Score: 4, Informative