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dont forget that people generally are not paying full price on that iphone however. if they were forced to, i would wager a lot less iphone ownership

Indeed. Even the very wealthy complain about the high cost of iPhones.

Nokia sold off their real hardware expertise for about $200 million USD before they even hired Elop. After that, Nokia was no better at hardware than an HTC.

The problem is that most of the data is not available till it is too late. Or worse, only the data for the government part is available.
So when we see X Gazillion is spend on a dead end project, people will shudder. You will seldom hear about this from private companies.

Bullshit. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e60e60d6-c495-11e1-a98c-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2Lvyph9ak is just one example from the past year. Or Google and Motorola Mobile http://www.rethink-wireless.com/2013/01/23/motorola-drags-googles-quarter.htm

This happens all the time, very much in the public eye, since publicly traded companies have to announce these results to their shareholders.

There is no possible way that 1.3 million android phones are sold every day.

World wide units shipments;1st Quarter 2012.

Sorry you are mistaken its not *Shipped* or *Sold* its *Activated*. http://www.rethink-wireless.com/2012/09/06/android-activations-hit-13m.htm. It also includes tablets although does not include none Google android.

They are a patent troll. Ever read this article? One of hundreds.

http://www.rethink-wireless.com/2011/03/18/mosaid-sues-16-vendors-wi-fi-patents.htm
who do you suppose gave mosaid (known patent troll) the patents?

What CSIRO came up with was not inventive, and they sold the patent off to patent litigation firms. To act like they're innocent because they did some research is to paint a very very biased troll implying CSIRO is unique.

There are probably 125 companies around the globe that were doing what CSIRO did at the same time, it's just that they didn't patent it.

They ARE different when it comes to data. AT&T and T-Mobile don't offer real 4G. Sprint doesn't cap data use or throttle you. Verizon has real 4G and the largest, fastest 3G/4G cellular data network.

This is actually very incorrect. No one offers true 4G, period. The FCC bumped the legal definition of it down significantly because of lobbying from the cell carriers so that they could advertise like they have "4G" when in fact they have improved 3G.

Refer to this article (it is from last year, but I believe most of it is still true): http://gcn.com/articles/2011/01/13/what-is-4g.aspx
Another article (From this year about it): http://www.rethink-wireless.com/2012/01/23/itu-confirms-official-true-4g-standards.htm
And of course, Wikipedia awaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4G

So no, don't buy the cell phone companies' BS about them having "4G" when they are not hardly halfway to what the actual standard dictates.

They have, http://www.rethink-wireless.com/2009/12/15/synaptics-concept-squeeze-phone-brings-touch-surfaces.htm