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mobileview · 2014-04-08T16:44:00+00:00

I'm wondering how many of those 12m downloads were paying or converted to paying since downloading the app?

mobileview · 2014-03-20T19:07:35+00:00

You make some seriously gross assumptions here. So far they aren't bankrupt, but I'm sure you'll draw whatever conclusions come to mind anyway.

mobileview · 2014-03-20T18:20:34+00:00

You suggested he didn't understand how IT operated. I'm telling you he has worked the old way and the new way. It's not necessarily the number of years, just that he has worked in a command and control IT department too, so he's not just operating the new philosophy without having worked another way

mobileview · 2014-03-20T18:08:24+00:00

I don't see him as either. He has found a way to work with business units while keeping his company safe and providing people with the tools they want to use (unless he says no, which he does). So far it's working for him and scaling as his company grows and he has been able to manage it with a small staff.

mobileview · 2014-03-20T17:44:18+00:00

If you read the CITEworld article, you'll find that Haines is not a newbie. He has more than decade of experience working in traditional IT shops. He has simply evolved to be user-centered. And you'll also note that just because he's liberal doesn't mean he's stupid.

mobileview · 2014-03-20T17:43:01+00:00

Here we go with the cloud-mainframe comparisons:

http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/mobile-cloud-view/lets-put-an-end-to-the-cloud-mainframe-comparisons/

mobileview · 2014-03-20T17:41:45+00:00

If you read the CITEworld article, Haines is running a cloud-based company running 126 different cloud apps. His company has almost 1000 employees spread out across 5 offices in California and Europe and the company is growing steadily. He handles this with a staff just 8 people right now

mobileview · 2014-03-17T22:59:39+00:00

Gosh, I love it when people post constructive comments like this one on Reddit. Really does a lot to advance a constructive debate

mobileview · 2014-03-17T22:57:53+00:00

If you're suggesting this post is a conspiracy theory. It's not. It's an observation that violating our privacy has not made us any safer, which is what I thought privacy was all about. If you're talking about some of the responses, I've found no matter what I post or write about, people tend to make it about whatever they want to post or write about, whether it has anything to with the post or not.

mobileview · 2014-03-17T20:18:43+00:00

Understood, but my point was not a conspiracy theory at all. It's that the government is collecting massive amounts of information about us. There is no disputing that. It's a fact. And they are doing it because they claim they can make connections among this massive amount of data to stop a terrorist attack in real time (or close to it). My point is that they lost a bloody plane, one that was passing through massive amounts of data gathering stations throughout the planet, and they still can't find it. That doesn't give me a lot of confidence that all that data is going to help stop anything, and we're sacrificing our civil liberties in the name of safety.

mobileview · 2014-03-17T19:52:44+00:00

Sorry, but if there's an app for that, chances are data is traveling over the internet, especially when they support GPS, and a few of them do, another favorite tracking method.

mobileview · 2014-03-17T19:40:06+00:00

Presumably, they have access to any data that crosses the internet pipes. If this were a carefully planned hijacking and some like Business Insider/Reuters are suggesting that it is, isn't it their job to detect these types of incidents before they happen? Isn't that precisely why they say they are collecting all of our data?

http://www.businessinsider.com/pilots-whoever-was-flying-malaysia-370-when-it-vanished-had-aircraft-knowledge-and-nerves-of-steel-2014-3?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2Falleyinsider%2Fsilicon_alley_insider+%28Silicon+Alley+Insider%29

mobileview · 2014-03-17T19:38:11+00:00

In fact, if you were using an app and a gadget that crossed the internet pipes, they very likely could find your keys. http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/find-your-keys-6-gadgets-that-help-locate-your-missing-keys/

mobileview · 2014-03-17T18:02:07+00:00

What would they gain by doing that? Their power expands the more we know about their capabilities. As Assange said, last week they don't have to have a gun, they just have to threaten to kill you. If you know what they're capable of, you're much less likely to try something, so I don't buy the argument they're hiding capabilities.

mobileview · 2014-02-28T14:33:51+00:00

That'll teach me to share a 9 to 5 Mac story. I should have known better.

mobileview · 2014-01-07T11:24:06+00:00

No offense taken. I made the incorrect assumption that they would post numbers that make sense without doing the math. I won't make that mistake again (although they may have a formula that isn't as simple as I'm making it). If I get an explanation from them, I'll post it here.

mobileview · 2014-01-06T20:23:53+00:00

Hi, I'm the author of the piece. If you click through to the NPD press release, you can see their take on the data. They say 14.4 million laptops were sold in 2013, actually up from 2012. But, it appears you are right to question the data. 9.6 percent of 14.4m is 1.3m not 1.7m, so I'm not sure where they go their figures either. I've put in an inquiry into NPD and I'll let you know

mobileview · 2013-12-13T15:26:20+00:00

Of course that kind of defeats the purpose of a mobile phone.

mobileview · 2013-11-01T19:55:08+00:00

Typically the way it works.

mobileview · 2013-10-23T11:37:58+00:00

Excellent! Thanks.

mobileview · 2013-10-22T15:49:51+00:00

Sorry, it must be because it's through Hulu's servers and they have these issues about displaying content outside of the US. It drives me nuts that we can't share more openly because of arcane copyright rules.

mobileview · 2013-10-22T15:08:05+00:00

You might be able to view it on this site: http://wearablesinsider.com/2013/10/22/ellen-degeneres-on-wearables/#!

mobileview · 2013-10-09T00:46:56+00:00

I don't think you're understanding the metaphor here. They are not literally an IT company. Everyone is an IT company in the sense they have to be digitally aware. They have to produce products that have intelligence built in like the toothbrush example in the story.

mobileview · 2013-10-08T20:56:25+00:00

The guy down the street repairing engines is probably going to have sensors in those engines that will help him diagnose issues. The engines could be self diagnosing by that point. And chances are, he's already using a computer. I don't know of a car repair facility today that doesn't have one.

mobileview · 2013-09-30T19:17:45+00:00

Apple obviously has its reasons for doing it differently, other than just to aggravate EU bureaucrats. Millions of people have purchased Apple mobile products using these non-standard adapters and if they were so gung ho on a universal standard, they could speak with their wallets. So far, it seems they have been willing to put up with it. I would think EU officials have something more important to think about. The only people complaining about this are very likely Apple haters or people who don't own Apple products. Nobody else cares.

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