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Netflix Profits Up 44%
It looks like I was right about buying more Netflix stock. As of today at 8:06AM, Netflix stock is trading at $100.12 per share, an increase of $13.14 (15.11%). This follows yesterday’s announcement that Q1 profits rose 44% from a year ago.
Some analysts predict that Netflix can’t continue to gain value at it’s current [...]
Practice What You Preach Steve
11. April 2010
Steve Jobs:
We’ve been there before, and intermediate layers between the platform and the developer ultimately produces sub-standard apps and hinders the progress of the platform.
*cough* iTunes on Windows *cough*
How about practicing what you preach. If it’s good enough for Apple’s efforts on Windows, it should be good enough for Flash and Flex developers who would [...]
Revisionist Gaming History?
9. April 2010
Any “top ten first person shooter” list that puts GoldenEye 007 (Nintendo 64) at #1 is a shitty list:
GoldenEye 007 (Nintendo 64)
Half-Life 2 (PC, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3)
Quake II (PC, Nintendo 64, Mac, PlayStation)
Unreal Tournament (Dreamcast, Mac OS, PC, PlayStation 2)
Halo (Xbox)
BioShock (Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC)
Doom (PC)
Counter-Strike (PC, Ma OS Xc, Xbox)
Call Of Duty 4: [...]
Time to Buy More Netflix Stock?
9. April 2010
Michael Pachter:
The company remains confident about its growth prospects, expecting net subscriber additions in 2010 of 3.2 – 4 million. We think that this growth, while likely to continue for two to three years, is unsustainable. We believe that 800,000 of the subscribers added in 2009 were from the addition of Netflix to Microsoft’s Xbox 360 dashboard, and [...]
The Gloves Come Off
9. April 2010
In case you haven’t heard, Apple released it’s new iPhone 4.0 SDK agreement. Among the changes is wording that seems to ban the use of languages other than Objective-C to write iPhone applications.
Adobe Platform Evangelist Lee Brimelow shares his opposition to this move by Apple:
Now let me put aside my role as an official representative [...]
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