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tnt - 08-26

] some reports of exploding batteries on the OnePlus One by 9to5mac.com. These are the batteries that shipped with the phone and not an aftermarket battery.

] new evidence that no one is buying the phone
] amazon doesnt release numbers BUT ...
] charles arthur at the guardian came up with some data, based upon ad network data, guesstimating that they only sold about 35K phones
] phone has a lot of problems, doesnt have a lot of utilities, features come off as gimicky, price is high, only available on 1 network
] not competitve with other high end phones that are currently available
] limited amazon app store selection, dont get google apps, dont get google services
] seems like they helped themselves more then they helped consumers
] dont have the vision to go up agains apple and samsung

[11:00] california killswitch bill signed into law with/Melody Gutierrez @San Fransciso chronicle

] CA governer Jerry Brown signed bill pushing smartphone mfg to include "kill switch" feature as anti theft measure
] will direct technology as smartphone mfg won't build seperate phones for CA market
] bill doesnt specify technical implementation of tech, could be open to differing implementations, confusion for consumers
] smartphone industry tradegroup lobbied against the bill, feeling it should be "opt in" technology

] 970M acquisition after a google deal to buy Twitch fell through
] Twitch has 55M unique monthly visitors, a big growing community, of people watching streaming of people playing video games
] more people watching League of Legends tournament then several top TV series combined
] Twitch has sophisticated infrastructure for streaming video which amazon may be able to leverage
] google deal fell through, anti trust issues on googles side or twitch concerns about autonomy
] amazon saying Twitch will be operated as independant subsidiary
] will amazon expand Twitch into mainstream video delivery aka YouTube
] all cash deal, 2nd largest acquistion for amazon after zappos deal, potentially more money on the table, incentives to keep executive team

] Disney filed 3 patents related to drones,
] a multi drone system that floats a project screen for nightime display - floating pixels (flixels)
] flexible project screens that are organized into multiple flight plans -
] drones in balloons or super large puppets, to make puppets look like they are floating in air
] drones as an entertainment media
] first cartoons, then movies, then theme parks bringing cartoons into the real world, now drones to ...
] disney magic band - you use when staying at Disney hotel, an apple esque experience,
] rfid band that comes in a box with your personal name imprinted on it
] waterproof
] swipe anywhere on disney site, fastpass for rides, room keys, restaurant reservations
] 50% of visitors are using it, 90% rate it as good or excellent
] the technology disapears, until you need to use it, no distraction or interference
] original purpose of disney to model a future society
] users can keep wristbands after park visit
] teardown article -

] facebook is changing the way it displays clickbait headlines with new algorithm
] do we trust facebook to know what we want to see
] algorithm is defining clickbait, checking any story that doesnt tell you what happens (ex "you wont beleive what happened next")
] and measuring amount of time on linked site/article, if time is very short, but even valid content could be punished
] links are coming from your friends, relatives,
] google plus and twitter may be better for "source for content" from influencers in industry
] check out last sundays TWIT show for debate on this topic
] many publishers today use "purposely vague" headlines to get people to click through

] coupling of internet explorer and media player issues ala us and eu antitrust issues from 20 years ago
] china is coming out with their own OS, a linux based alternative OS
] ploy to get their own OS more traction
] reason windows is dominant is because of piracy, everyone steals windows including the chinese government
] chinese government punishing msft and others for stealing their products

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