Chris Pratt’s Comments

• May 21st, 2019 @ 1:29pm

  Worth mentioning...

  on You Don't Own What You've Bought: Google Nest Edition

  All in all Google is actually handling this pretty well. They're not shutting off Works with Nest, merely deprecating it. Existing functionality will continue until, to paraphrase Google's press release, the majority of skills and devices under that program have of been migrated to Google Assistant. In particular, they're working directly with Alexa to migrate over support, and have similar partnerships with other companies. It's hardly an apocalyptic event. While the danger the article points out is a valid concern, in general, it doesn't have much applicability to this particular situation.

• Mar 23rd, 2017 @ 4:08am

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  on eBook Pirates Tend To Be Older And Well Off, Which Means They Pirate Because Of Human Intuition On Economics
  I routinely see ebook prices exceeding those of the paperback and sometimes even the hardcover versions of the same book. I'd imagine the average older affluent person can easily recognize that the ebook version cuts a great many distribution costs: printing and publishing, shipping, warehousing, brick and mortar retailing, etc. Instead, there's only the initial cost of digital production, which is inherent regardless of the ultimate format the book may take, and that of storage and bandwidth. The latter of which are so cheap as to be almost inconsequential 8n the equation. So, yes, ebooks should still cost something, but no where near what publishers think they should be able to charge. Until they correct this dissonance, piracy will remain an issue.
• Feb 12th, 2015 @ 9:44am

  Few problems here

  on Green Bubbles: How Apple Quietly Gets iPhone Users To Hate Android Users
  First, until recently I was a long term iPhone user. So long term in fact that I remember before iMessage came out and all the bubbles were green. Green has always been the SMS bubble color. When Apple released iMessage they needed something to differentiate between an iMessage and an SMS message, and decided on blue for whatever reason. You're free to assume I suppose that they chose blue because it was more serene, but this is then merely a positive spin on a new technology rather than a negative spin on an old.
  
  Second, this is hardly Apple vs Google. While perhaps Android has the most marketshare of any source of those green bubbles, it's just SMS, so any phone, Android, Windows, etc. would display the same. Even iPhones can generate a green bubble when iMessage is unavailable or turned off.
  
  Third, using an Android phone hardly means you took the cheap way out. My current Android device retails for more than most iPhone models.