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July 5, 2012, 7:40 AM

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Horace Dediu / asymco:
Building and dismantling the Windows advantage  —  When the Macintosh was launched in 1984, computers running the MS-DOS operating system were nearing a dominant position in the market.  Having launched in 1981 as the IBM PC, they were quickly cloned and four years later “PCs” were selling at the rate of 2 million/yr.
David Pogue / New York Times:
Nexus 7, Google's New Tablet, Seriously Challenges the iPad  —  You can love Apple or you can hate Apple, but one thing's for sure: its favorite game is Lead the Industry.  And the industry's favorite game is Follow the Leader.  —  Steve Jobs hated the mimicry.
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Cory Doctorow: Music: The Internet's Original Sin  —  From the July 2012 issue of Locus Magazine  —  In a recent Search Engine podcast, host Jesse Brown wondered about music's ongoing centrality to the debate over file-sharing and freedom.  After all, the music industry has all but abandoned lawsuits …
Carly Page / Inquirer:
UK Google Nexus 7 tablets won't feature music, magazines or TV shows  —  GOOGLE'S NEXUS 7 TABLET won't arrive with all of the company's touted features including TV shows, music and magazines, Google has confirmed, making its £159 price-tag seem like less of a bargain.
Matt Brian / The Next Web:
Facebook, Google, Microsoft and RIM sign up to Telefonica mobile billing partnership  —  European mobile giant Telefonica is set to make it easier for its customers to purchase digital items and subscribe to services using their mobile devices following a new deal with Facebook, Google, Microsoft and RIM.
More: Inquirer
Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:
Apple and Samsung drop additional claims against each other ahead of U.S. trial  —  On May 1 and May 7, Apple and Samsung had already dropped some claims against each other from their first California lawsuit (which is scheduled to go to trial on July 30).  Further narrowing resulted …
Melanie Lee / Reuters:
Get in line: one Apple store per 216 million Chinese  —  (Reuters) - Apple Inc (AAPL.O) has more retail stores in Pennsylvania than in all of China - where it earns a fifth of its revenue - and a slow pace of expansion may cost the firm more than just sales.
David Talbot / Technology Review:
L.A. Cops Embrace Crime-Predicting Algorithm  —  A recent study suggests that computers could be better than seasoned police analysts at predicting when and where crime will strike next in a busy city.  Software tested in Los Angeles was twice as good as human analysts at predicting …
Jon Russell / The Next Web:
Rakuten begins Pinterest collaboration, adds ‘Pin It’ buttons to three key Web services in Japan  —  Japan-headquartered e-commerce giant Rakuten has taken its first step to collaborate with Pinterest, the social network that it recently invested $100 million in, after announcing that three …

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