> is propping up an undemocratic regime that murders its opponents, oppresses women, sponsors terrorism and extremism worldwide, starts brutal wars, etc.
> I'm a senior writer with Wired (www.wired.com). Am putting together a small story on this. Would love to chat
You must not have a full grasp of how HN operates.
If all it takes to get into a Wired article is to regurgitate information already plentifully available online, I'm pretty worried about Wired's future.
While the comment was substantive and linked to sources, this is normal for HN and nothing special.
How about you contact the guy who posted the article? He's the CRO from F-Secure, one of the research companies that was linked to as a source.
I really hope Wired doesn't start using random comments as "experts" in articles.
> implemented with trying not to look at the original source code.
> Games weren’t as big serious business back then
> which led to me adding shooting animations and sounds
> and eventually hitscans and projectiles and moving monsters and door and elevator sectors, and I’ve unintentionally
We get the point he's making... but it would seem Microsoft could throw him a copy of Word with Grammar Check enabled (given they are talking about getting into bed with each other right now).
You aren't the target audience. Your mother and grandmother are. And that generation does want this phone, not just/only for the phone, but for all the tertiary benefits it brings (Prime, App of the Week, etc)
Amazon's phone is not about competing with the iPhone, and the $0.99 price is not about it failing. Amazon's end-game is the ecosystem, which now gives free Prime with the phone among a lot of other benefits that appeals to a lot of people. This price drop is about enticing more people into the ecosystem, from which Amazon will profit off of maybe 10 years from now (they are in it for the extreme long term). The phone is not about selling phones, it's about selling other Amazon products and services. Even if they only capture 1/2 a percentage of the market, that is a lot of new customers locked into the ecosystem.
Seeing how the gov't can seemingly pull fines and penalties out from thin air (a la Russia Sanctions still ongoing and new), I think it's safe to say the $250K per day would have only been just the beginning.
I really hate it when the compiler ignores my comments.