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still better than me ... abc123

They are utterly 'irrelevant' i don't care if they make money or not. but they are barely relevant. and this is actually worse than dying. They are everywhere yet nowhere.

What exactly Yahoo is, can someone explain LIM5. and who their target customers are consumer or corporate???

I am not talking their subsidiaries, just Yahoo. Alibaba is cool, but that's not enough.

They are not even trying at anything. They are not even exploring anything.

All I can say, they can do better than this.

'I will remain loyal to the state and constitution' ... where does it say 'remain loyal to its people' ?

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Ok there is a lesson for us too (startups)., when you are a small, and can not fight conventional war with bigger competitors, you have to be unconventional. or simply nuke your competitors don't compete them if you want to stand a chance

anyhow more: http://www.hindustantimes.com/world/pakistan-could-be-world-...

Google is a prime example. Money alone can not buy love, and can not buy success either.

It's not 1995 when your windows was shinning everywhere. psst!!! they don't get cloud and and trends, too bad they didn't learn it from Gmail either.

What actually is the point of posting it here, when one can not download it?

For Small business, growth even could kill their business. that's where wisdom comes in, sometime you have to slow the pedal of sales, to focus on customer retention. my current strategy has been to pile enough funds before the next stage growth., and dividing growth into stages, we deliberately don't sale, just to manage current customers. It's slow but for sure.

I am of the view commercialism has overwhelmed or outrun the innovation than ever?

As a Pakistani myself, I don't find it charming, because back in home it means nothing, playing games with such devotion only would lead one jobless or burden on the family. But still I applaud the efforts of this lad. But this is something we 3rd world are far from seeing as a career or money making opportunity. I wasn't surprised that only this year China has allowed the manufacturing and sales of Game consoles., previously it was all banned. I myself had to stay from gaming away in my teenage despite all the excitement I always managed myself to keep it at distance, to lead a healthy career. Today is one of those days I realize that me and my US cousins live in a different world, a really different one.

The whole story wasn't settling well with me, I meant, whatever happened, we are talking about hundreds of Million here, and it didn't seem adequate that the owner of this company would get away, merely because hackers hacked their system. He should have been behind bars, no matter what.

is there one of me?

Any tech that is invented, and implanted on human beings, without studying the humans themselves. is bound to fail. Humans are smart mammals and they do appreciate anything that's smart, however they didn't come from a fancy space ship as google has established. they were born on the earth. that is full of colors, breeze, green fields.

on a serious note, what happened to Google Glass??

regardless of downvotes, I am convinced that all these 'efforts' are solely aimed to stay relevant, Tech is changing at a pace that no one could have predicted. Even Apple is paranoid. Who had thought iphone 6+++?? I don't mean it's uncool. But just see how things are happening fast and quick. It's hard to catch up.

Google has more failures in recent years than any other company, because either they were too late to the party or too early. i.e Google Plus / Google Glass etc etc.

iPhone was not 'too early' it was just in time. that's why it was a major hit. Give me something that I would start using today(). If it's practical and useful it is gonna be hit. Else beyond the headlines it would only be biting the dust in the labs.... a privilege that until now, solely belonged to Microsoft

probably being a 34 years old ceo sucks. :) that looks at things a lot differently. and have to deal with things which people call it 'shit happens'. I am only rejoicing when it does not. and it's very rare.

copyright act is entirely and solely built around 'consumer confusion'. anyway ;) there is apple bank https://www.applebank.com/ with apple in their logo too ;) but a slight resemblance in design language resulted in 1 billion fine to samsung. reason., former does not cause consumer confusion and the later did or tried to steal the thunder immorally.

and i did mention, project is cool. it's bookmarked in the same folder where i have hackernews ;)

but generally i tend not to like anything that tries to steal the thunder immorally... in this case, if the OP tries to monetize this app with the same domain name, it would be immoral and would delete it from my bookmarks.

you don't build a product around a product with 90% same name, it took me 5 min to figure your blog is not of ycombinator, at first seriously, i rejoiced as a designer, that 'finally' design is showing signs of improvments. but only to find, it was of a side-project built around ycombinators's news section. bad choice of name. project is cool.

I know it does not matter to ycombinator, because they are cool guys. but know the 'consumer confusion' thing?

couple of years back, adwords suspended my account.

the only response i wrote back was, I have no intentions either, of paying my money to a company that has little to no respect to its customers.

I got back instant response and got my account reinstated, but, still I didn't agree, I asked him, I need written apology from the head manager, the support person apologized for this, and said the head manager is traveling overseas. So I accepted.

I never asked the reason why they did it in the first place. I was just furious, you don't say fuck off to your customers, without first talking to them.

He did it.

Let me put my thoughts first.

1. Initiate massive industrialization in the 3rd World.

2. Create as many jobs as I could.

Expected Results.

1. Massive job creation would lead to improved economy for the 3rd World, filling the gap between 3rd and the 1st World.

2. People would become busier, Literacy rate would go up, Crime and Terrorism factors will be significantly reduced.

Overall, the world would become even better and more civilized place.

No rocket science here.

PS: Bill Gates, Warren, Please don't donate money, Donate jobs.

Ever heard of 'fast-paced' work environment. Sadly I run a tiny small company, where we make it loud and clear. That it's fast-paced work environment, full of stress, haste and everything in between.

Even for me as an owner, this has deteriorated my life. I run an international shipping company. And every shipment is time-definite, not because they are, because customers make it so.

Such kind of job, is not for everyone, therefore we make it loud and clear, we have a lot of fun too, to compensate for it and I make it clear to my guys.

Anyhow, we do not have a culture of 'disrespect' but in a fast-paced environment, moods swings are pretty common.

Again it's not for everyone. Ask me frankly, 911 or Police are less stressful than we are. as you laid out., as If police job is more stressful.

>Or was the problem merely that the right combination of features for such lightweight computers had not yet materialized?

an ordinary tale of, one of the millions of adsense-salary drawers, who were suddenly fired. Starting from the 1st 'Panda' update. I didn't know it mattered much in the 1st First world, but imagine this in countries like India & Pakistan. Little young boys became super-rich and bought flats in Dubai and what not. Now again back to earth. All of them are now fat and depressed, like the one writing this comment ;)

Shortly after you receive the question paper, the question paper is sent to people outside, either through windows you can see, or by taking 'pee break'. after which they prepare answers and deliver them through windows, or they take it from bathrooms, when taking the '2nd pee break'. I have sat in one of those exams, ;) but it was in Pakistan, nothing dissimilar though. That said, it was about 10 years ago. Now there are very tough 'restrictions' esp., in urban areas, but in rural areas I guess this could be still in practice.

But this does not help any of them, because even witin Pakistan, the degree from the Sindh province (where it is more common), is barely taken seriously, when applying for the Job.

Google is doing, what a $300 Billion enterprise can do., than a billion people need. Most enterprises of their scale are focused on the later.

I meant, Glass and Chromebook are 'awesome'., but did or does it make sense, theverge repeatedly said, it does not make sense to buy it.

I like the notion of 'web' based OS, but I guess, for time being, that's for our tablets or phones only, a Laptop is multi-purpose machine and will remain so for perhaps ever, I meant its ridiculous to have one laptop for 'web' and other for 'work'., when most of them can do both at once.

Remove distractions = More Productivity. Simple as that.

I really have no idea, what criteria is the most important for apple. However for me, when hiring these points hold most value in the order they are mentioned.

1. Type of Person. (Preference to be given to a positive, honest, candid, compassionate, less focused on money and more dedicated to and focused on job/skills and friendly person).

2. Skills level.

Author apparently failed at the money vs dedication. If you are more focused on money than skills/job., you are a big no-no. in my books.

it wasn't point of my post, I never meant, one shouldn't try. actually this is how all of these big Giants in the industry have succeeded and come along. But still, what my post missed was the emphasis on the 'rational' trying, than 'me-too' trying.

Just last month I finally sold my 15" MBP (early 2011) for $500 after whining on reddit, and having no chance of repair, except the apple auth. guy said, I need to change motherboard.

http://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/2ka0h0/yosemite_cripp...

Also I voted this. http://www.change.org/p/timothy-d-cook-replace-or-fix-all-20...

I wish I had not sold it. :/ because for $500 I could only get the HP pavilion :/ as a replacement., you know that alone is the most terrible fact about this whole episode. that Had to use a HP lappy. :/

If I were apple CEO, I would be sending a personally signed, apologizing note to each of these customers, with a bag carrying a new MBP.

In my case it took 45% of my fortune to buy that machine. :/

Cars used to be mechanical miracle, today they are controlled by 'computers' and 'softwares'. Above all, their pricing is rip-off for high end cars esp., I am not currently sold for electric-only car, but I am more favorable for hybrid and I hope Apple make one too.

If you can read, computers and software above while you do know skills of Apple for both industrial and software design, perhaps you could find the missing piece of the puzzle.

If they re not working on a car, they should. And we do know, Apple can bring down the price of 'high-end' to near affordable. That's where, the current leaders in this industry need to worry.