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Please Ignore iPhone 3G Component Cost Reports

June 25, 2008 – 8:44 pm

I’ve been seeing an increase in the number of “reports” [1] [2] about the new iPhone component cost. People seem to think this is some sort of useful information. It isn’t. Having only component costs is pointless. But what’s worse is that these reports are just an imaginary breakdown with a guess at the components [...]

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My Angry Email to Sub Pop in 2005

April 30, 2008 – 7:06 am

In 2005 I wrote an angry email to Sub Pop because the album I wanted to download from iTunes could only be purchased one track at a time. In fact, I wrote an angry email and then accidentally sent it before I could make it sound at least slightly intelligent. But what followed from [...]

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

November 14, 2007 – 9:57 am

Shi landed in trouble three years ago when the Chinese government prohibited journalists to report on the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in 1989.
When Shi forwarded the notice to human rights groups, the Chinese government pressured Yahoo to give them the name of the account holder, and they did so. Shi [...]

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Where is Capitalism Anyway

July 2, 2007 – 9:33 am

There’s a hard case for saying capitalism still exists in America. Calling our market a free one is like saying a cage-free chicken is honestly free. The irony is that it is the market leaders (often ones who clamor for deregulation) are the ones that are steering America’s market towards a feudal system.
The linchpin in [...]

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