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Re: Newspaper Deliveries in India

gautamg — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 18:07:08 -0000

I've seen them deliver upto 6 floors! and yes every once in a while I did have to go the downstairs neighbor :) But in India we're a lot more friendly with our neighbors, not like NYC :-O

Re: The Problem with OpenID

gautamg — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 18:02:31 -0000

FYI emailtoid.net didn't signup didn't work for me. It didn't accept my OpenID on the first screen when it said it would, I registered an email but associating it with my openID generated a 500 error. Just FYI.

Worked on the second try when there was no redirect to my openID server.

Re: Newspaper Deliveries in India

gautamg — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 23:01:01 -0000

I grew up in a 3rd floor apartment in New Delhi and can attest to receiving the newspaper in the balcony every morning via this method. No big deal.

Re: Apple has a serious transparency problem.

gautamg — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:04:58 -0000

Every business that wants to become more profitable is heading towards monopolydom. The only way to keep that behavior in check is for an informed consumer to not buy their products when a business crosses the line. Since most consumers aren't willing to do that for Apple, the company will continue with their practices that you object to and keep pushing the boundary.

Remember demand precedes supply and, in the long run, only consumers govern demand.

Good post though.

Re: Paying for software, utility v. cost

gautamg — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:23:02 -0000

But it isn't a Cathedral for Apple, remember that their software stack is built on open source foundation, which come out of the bazaar. Apple is also exempt from Cathedral vs. Bazaar because they deal with atoms and bits. This vs applies to bits only.

So when it comes to "shipping" bits, bet on the bazaar everytime.

Re: Paying for software, utility v. cost

gautamg — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 17:27:58 -0000

It's the MS Cathedral vs Google Bazaar. Bet on the bazaar every time.

Re: Apple is the new Microsoft

gautamg — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 09:40:13 -0000

Great post, as usual. One point of disagreement - closed != monopoly in relation to you mobile browse point above. Monopolies usually have 3 attributes:
1. Majority market share - iphone has 30 to 40% at best. So mobile safari isn't a monopoly in mobile browsing
2. barrier to entry - browsers usually implement barrier to entry via not adhering to standards (think activeX in IE etc). Mobile safari hasn't shown any such thing yet.
3. Lack of innovation - IE didn't innovate after it got monopoly status till the status was threatened again by firefox years later. Mobile Safari, is rapidly innovating.