In August 2006, Google's then CEO Eric Schmidt joined Apple's board.
Andy Rubin, the founder of Android had already made a name for himself in mobile technology. In 1999, he co-founded Danger Inc. Microsoft bought Danger in 2008.
Google acquired Android in 2005, before the iPhone was unveiled in January 2007.
Chrome was based on WebKit, which was based on KHTML, the browser engine from KDE. The only reason we have WebKit as an open source engine is because Apple had to open source it. https://blogs.kde.org/2007/10/26/web-diplomacy/
They released "just" enough of it that WebKit could be replaced in Safari. That's it. Their patch would not compile or run on Linux. It would be _years_ before KDE had a WebKit browser. KDE took months to implement many changed from WebKit into KHTML.
Sequoia were freaking out. They had signed a term sheet with the Where2 team, and backed out because Yahoo! just released a map product. Yahoo was involved in both Google's early history and the events that led to Google Maps. Yahoo had an early opportunity to license Google's search technology, rather than acquire Google outright. Larry Page and Sergey Brin were introduced to Sequoia investor Michael Moritz through Yahoo co-founder David Filo.
Yahoo CEO Terry Semel reportedly offered around US$3 billion to buy Google, but Page and Brin declined.
Sequoia withdrew its proposed investment in Where 2 in 2008. Thinking Yahoo would dominate the market, and it was not a safe investment.
Sequoia then introduced Where 2 to Google. CIA, Keyhole, it's all a fun little rabbit hole :)
Sony's Optical Disc Archive (https://pro.sony/en_AU/products/optical-disc) is alive and kicking. Each cartridge basically uses 11 optical discs for 5.5TB per Cartridge and ~300MB/sec transfer speed[0]. It's last update was in 2019. Too bad we won't see a new generation, as Sony has basically killed any future development.
Folio Photonics has just got some funding and they are saying they will be able to launch with capacities of 10 TB per cartridge.
I assume because realistically, LTO has already a large share of the backup market in business/enterprise, and for most people, offsite backups either through the internet, or 3-2-1 using portable hard drives are easier and cheaper.
ODA is expensive. The drives reportadly die quickly, and LTO is the animal you know. ODA only ever had one manufacturer. I believe LTO still has two or three? (IBM, HPE and maybe Quantum, but I think they are IBM).
Putting all of your eggs in one basket is never a good idea.
There were a few rumours going around that Amazon Glacier were using ODA for backups 10+ years ago, but I'm pretty sure they were just That-rumours.
Though the lawsuits are more complex with multiple parties suing RED, of which Nikon also fought RED and ended up buying them out to win that side of the battle. On the panasonic side it was more of their cinema line of cameras rather than Lumix that was the driver (though they have trickle down)
And prores isn’t necessarily RAW, it’s just one of the variants.
> so you won't need a key to read the translated poetry
This probably sounds like a crazy question, but if you are already getting translations using someone else's API keys, can't you just store/cache that response so that the next time the translation is requested, you already have it?
This is pure survivorship bias talking. Being ruthless is one way to get just about anything you want, but rarely the best way and it sits with you. Even Steve Jobs spent so much time justifying his shittyness that I think on some level it didn't sit with him very well.
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