Samsung's mobile profits plunge 64.2% after Apple's iPhone 6 devastates premium Galaxy sales:
Samsung Electronics reported overall Q4 operating profits of 5.29 trillion won ($4.9 billion)--a 36 percent year-over-year drop--but its Mobile division suffered a 64.2 percent drop in profits, falling from $5 billion in the year ago quarter to $1.8 billion in the December quarter.
Things we know for sure: The thoughts of Steve Jobs are not in this set | Macworld:
But, to be fair, Cult of Mac knows Steve Jobs would have hated these things because [clown horn] honk-honk [slide whistle] doooooooooooop [very long seltzer spray] pssssssssssssssssssssssssssssht
For future reference, here are the rules about presuming to write about what Steve Jobs would have thought of anything:
A) Unless you are Laurene Powell Jobs, do not attempt to write about what Steve Jobs would have thought of anything.
Double dipping: When pundits recycle their Apple diatribes:
It’s one thing when pundits re-hash the same arguments year after year. It’s quite another when they write almost literally the exact same article.
Writing for MarketWatch, Quentin Fottrell re-recounts Apple’s naughty list:
“10 things Apple won’t say” (indirect link and tip o’ the antlers to Tom Swanson)
10 things Apple won’t say? Quentin Fottrell? You wrote the same article two years ago. You can’t fool this tireless mythical beast (who even works on Christmas).
Tech groups send Miss. AG a “friendly reminder” about how bad SOPA was | Ars Technica:
When Congress tried to pass SOPA in 2011 -2012, millions of Americans signed petitions, called and e-mailed their Congressional representatives, and commented on social media platforms, all firmly opposing attempts to limit online speech by blocking websites without appropriate legal process. SOPA was a bad idea at the federal level, and any SOPA revival on a state level is an equally bad idea that, we are confident, will be equally unacceptable to the public.
Note that’s a “pretty” ellipsis at the end – one you make with Option-;.
It should surprise no one that those that believe a document written two hundred years ago can solve all problems of modern life with a literal interpretation and without any change also believe that a book compiled once at 4000 years ago and then again 1600-1800 years ago can also solve all modern problems with a literal interpretation and no changes. For the central idea of modern Conservatism has less to do with doing anything right in the moment and more to do with doing what they’ve always done. It’s a culture where a lesson learned is a moment of weakness. Anyone who dares to change their mind, especially based on facts or new information, is immediately cast out as a traitor unwilling to toe the party line. They have, in essence, become a line of ants in search of a meal that doesn’t exist, blindly following each other into the wilderness, blinders intact, and having faith that those that went before knew what they were doing, but without any contingency plan for when that path fails to apply to a changing world.
But the real fun is coming from the politicians and the pundits who seem to be trying to out-crazy each other in coming up with the most ridiculous analogy/description of what Title II means for the internet and the world. The one getting the most attention has to be Senator Ted Cruz who declared net neutrality "Obamacare for the internet."
After nonsensical comments on Net Neutrality, conservatives rage against Ted Cruz:
Troy Hunt: The “Cobra Effect” that is disabling paste on password fields:
There are many, many valid reasons why people would want to paste passwords in order to increase their security profile yet the perception of those blocking this practice is that it actually decreases security. Why? Interesting you should ask…
FCC calls AT&T’s fiber bluff, demands detailed construction plans | Ars Technica:
Two days after AT&T claimed it has to "pause" a 100-city fiber build because of uncertainty over network neutrality rules, the Federal Communications Commission today asked the company to finally detail its vague plans for fiber construction.Despite making all sorts of bold promises about bringing fiber to customers and claiming its fiber construction is contingent on the government giving it what it wants, AT&T has never detailed its exact fiber plans. For one thing, AT&T never promised to build in all of the 100 cities and towns it named as potential fiber spots. The company would only build in cities and towns where local leaders gave AT&T whatever it wanted. In all likelihood, only a small portion of the 100 municipalities were likely to get fiber, and nobody knows which ones.
Amazon and Hachette have finally resolved their bitter dispute:
Specific terms of their new deal aren’t being disclosed, but Hachette claims it’s now gained full control over ebook pricing.
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Amazon says the new pact contains “financial incentives” that will encourage Hachette to keep ebooks affordable for its many Kindle customers.