aaronklein

I've used this...it's way cool. Turns your web browser into an investing powerhouse. Nice job LikeFolio!

Ha! Awesome. Should have thought of that one.

That's not my take at all.

The content companies do believe they are God's gift to mankind and they have some very anti-customer policies. They think they are optimizing their revenue from such policies.

I think they underestimate the kind of growth they could see if they started treating their customers the way that most of the tech industry does.

Tech is far from perfect, but it does a better job of being customer centric.

There are certainly ways that tech companies operate in a Hollywoodesque manner.

Apple trying to assert DMCA against jailbreaking phones is a great example. It's YOUR phone. You paid $600 for it (either over time, or up front). You should be able to do whatever you want with it.

You've made a very poor case with Google privacy policies, though. If you don't use Google+, there's no way for any of its privacy policies to affect you. If you don't like their policies, don't use their free product. Period.

I killed it. Only added it because some readers were having a hard time finding the "share" buttons. I'll find a better solution.

I agree. Readers were asking me for share and tweet buttons, even though they were in the post, but that pop down is annoying. I killed it.

But what if by losing, the court invalidates all of Hollywood's ridiculous licensing ploys as well? That would be winning by losing. :)

Agreed if they are selling the ads directly.

They could throw Google AdWords up there and have the ads algorithmically placed.

They won't make as much money but they wouldn't have to beg.

That's a great idea.

You forgot the "imho"

It wasn't a bash. I love MG's writing and I love a lot of Apple products. It's nothing more than an inside joke.

If you seriously think that this whole debacle hasn't taxed our economy and the value of our currency more than $19B...then you're smoking something really good. :)

I know we have -3% unemployment in tech. Not quite so elsewhere, my friend.

LOL...true

Both factors help increase the total size of the bubble.

How can a story that references beer have limited hacker relevance? ;)

That's just not accurate.

Go look at government-backed Fannie and Freddie and what they did in partnership with their cronies like Angelo Mozilo at Countrywide Home Loans.

Big Business and Big Government have formed a cartel to make money off each other. And that is exactly what led to the Great Recession.

How so? :)