Posts by Robert Grant 2234 publicly visible posts • joined 22 Aug 2006
A similar situation unfolded when its chief legal officer David Drummond decided to leave in January. Jennifer Blakely, who was a senior contracts manager in Google's legal department, said in a blog post in August last year she had an affair with Drummond back in 2004 when he was still married. A few years after Blakely gave birth to their son, Drummond left their relationship and later married a woman who had left Google and then rejoined the biz.
How is that similar to the previous example?
But he conceded that serverless has restrictions. With functions as a service (FaaS), there are limits to what programming languages developers can use and what version, especially in Google's Cloud Functions, which has "very few languages supported".
I think there are 4: Go, JS, Python and Java.
Nowhere near as many as Azure's...5. And one of them is Powershell.
Maybe it is to you, but I'd hardly call the cost of a Mac and iPhone (and maybe iPad) a "tiny up front fee".
Did you think Apple let you develop, test and release iOS apps from a Windows or Linux box?
Do you think Windows and Linux boxes are free? And the devices are optional, and while you should have them, they are not the registration fee.
The registration fee for the app store is something like $80 to register a dev account.
It's not just that. The entire development ecosystem is created and maintained by Apple as well, and they only charge a tiny up front fee to register to use all of that. It's not just a shop (although that will also cost a reasonable amount to maintain and run).
"I want to believe. I just hope we're not hearing about yet another story in a few years," said Microsoft program manager Glenn Block, who works on Microsoft Graph. If that is an internal perspective, what are the rest of us to make of it?
This is guaranteed. As soon as a new UI/device/abstraction comes along, MS will do a massive amount of effort supporting it through introducing abstraction layers and other things that will later need to be rationalised.
Sure. But kids' tv has always had toy adverts. I don't think that displaying toy ads in between content is somehow new and horrific.
And the tracking case is hard to understand. How does that work when the child is using a parent's device? Not exactly a clean data set, and youtube kids is there to restrict tracking. From the Youtube Kids privacy policy:
The app does not allow interest-based advertising or remarketing.
YouTube Kids does not allow your child to share personal information with third parties or make it publicly available.
I guess we're going to find out exactly what that means, which is a good thing.
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