sasidharm's comments

sasidharm | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: What was Steve Job's core competency?

Product Management and Marketing

sasidharm | 11 years ago | on: Google’s Internal Response to Imminent E.U. Charges

By stealing data from competitors?

sasidharm | 11 years ago | on: What I use instead of Google services

Congratulations. You get the google customer of the year award.

sasidharm | 12 years ago | on: Official statement from WikiLeaks regarding Edward Snowden's exit from Hong Kong

The appointment of Eric Holder as the head of DOJ could be the defining moment of Obama's presidency. Everything Eric Holder is involved in is turning into a huge pile of shit.

sasidharm | 13 years ago | on: The App Store Nightmare

First world problems.

sasidharm | 14 years ago | on: Facebook buys Karma

Did you mean Google strategy? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acquisitions_by_Google

sasidharm | 14 years ago | on: The Samsung Galaxy S III: The First Smartphone Designed Entirely By Lawyers

Only 5% of all android devices out there have ICS (http://developer.android.com/resources/dashboard/platform-ve...). Even if you are correct that ICS has no fluidity issues at all, that means 95% of android devices out there have these issues.

sasidharm | 14 years ago | on: The Samsung Galaxy S III: The First Smartphone Designed Entirely By Lawyers

Anyone who truly believes Samsung wasn't just ripping off Apple's product (hardware/software) need only look at the Phone App's icon here http://cdn3.sbnation.com/imported_assets/844649/2011-04-19ap... (Link from the parent).

sasidharm | 14 years ago | on: Jeff Atwood's security blunder regarding email

Even if the data is stored encrypted, Google can always decrypt it on an as needed basis (since they serve ads based on the content of the email messages.)

sasidharm | 14 years ago | on: Horseshit - MG responds to Topolsky's rant

I cant help but think that there are a lot of other personal grudges at play here instead of just an honest discussion about iPhone 4S vs Galaxy Nexus

sasidharm | 14 years ago | on: Apple Never Designed the iPad - They Undesigned it

Apple didn't build a freaking photo-frame..they built a tablet computer...

sasidharm | 14 years ago | on: More on Google and Patents

I read Google's post and Microsoft's response and Google's update to the post and Microsoft's response to the update as well: http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/04/gentlemen-take-this-outside... Considering all arguments, I think there is more to this story than what Google told in the blog post. The fact that they did not even mention that they were offered to be part of the joint bid in the initial post raises a lot of questions.

sasidharm | 14 years ago | on: More on Google and Patents

How is it unfair?

sasidharm | 14 years ago | on: Google: Patently Absurd

That's because they don't have any patents of their own to sue with. Before they acquired IBM's patents, they had a total of less than 800 patents.

sasidharm | 14 years ago | on: Google: Patently Absurd

They are being hypocritical by saying that Apple and Msft bid many more times than what those patents are really worth, when Google itself bid upto 4 billion dollars. And what gaurantee does Google provide that they wouldn't sue competitors aggressively? Dont tell me its because their 'motto' is Dont be evil.

sasidharm | 14 years ago | on: Google: Patently Absurd

Gruber is no Google-lover, but in this case he is right on the money for calling out Google's hypocrisy. What if Google won the Nortel patents with their pi billion dollars bid?

sasidharm | 15 years ago | on: For Google, iCloud Is Annoying; For Microsoft, It's A Humiliation

Truth is on the cloud.

sasidharm | 15 years ago | on: How to beat Apple

I think he is talking primarily about OEMs. Except HTC, i dont think any other OEM building iPhone/iPad competitors is making much money.

sasidharm | 15 years ago | on: Facebook’s Gmail Killer, Project Titan, Is Coming On Monday

Google is not evil by nature (though i have my own doubts) and Facebook is also not evil by nature. Facebook simply has a different philosophy on _sharing_. They believe that people should share everything and be more social. If this is not something people are not comfortable with, then those people have no business in signing up for facebook and complaining that everything is shared by default. As far as Google's privacy 'glitches' are concerned, in my experience bugs make it into production accidentally. But pieces of code that are developed specifically to sample wifi packets that might contain sensitive data or code that exposes all my email contacts to the entire world do not make into production accidentally.

sasidharm | 15 years ago | on: Facebook’s Gmail Killer, Project Titan, Is Coming On Monday

If you already trust Google with your email, then it cant be that bad.