Tag Archives: business

Please Ignore iPhone 3G Component Cost Reports

June 25, 2008 – 8:44 pm

I’ve been seeing an increase in the number of “reports” about the new iPhone component cost. Even if you had all that information it would still be pointless until products begin to magically do the following all by themselves: research and develop license technologies used in it assemble package ship store promote sell component cost is just a fraction of a significantly bigger number.

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My Angry Email to Sub Pop in 2005

April 30, 2008 – 7:06 am

…I like the idea of buying music over the internet because if it gets to the point where people can see it as a legitimate and feasible way to distribute music over time it will erode some of the power major labels have over musicians— which in my silly dreams means more creativity, more musicians, and more money for them (and less to gigantic labels).

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Will Yahoo! and the Others Change Their China Policies Now?

November 14, 2007 – 9:57 am

Technology companies in the United States have succumbed to pressure by authoritarian foreign governments to provide such governments with information about Internet users that has led to the arrest and imprisonment of cyber dissidents, in violation of the corporate responsibility of such companies to protect and uphold human rights.

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Where is Capitalism Anyway

July 2, 2007 – 9:33 am

The concept of the free market is that those who can’t survive in business are pushed out of the market, however through intellectual property management any company that has established itself can remain on artificial life-support by abusing the system through lawsuits that either give failing businesses a cut of their competition’s income or by blocking that competition altogether.

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