Playing games has never been "cool" its' been maybe fun
Maybe on a handheld...however, watching the commericals for games like Madden and SoCom, I'm pretty convinced that the game industy has turned certain types of games into "cool"
Bochs is so much slower than Virtual PC that I don't consider it an alternative at all.
I don't have any inside information, however, I am suspecting that the next version of Virtual PC will be much slower on a G5 than Virtual PC (current) on a G3/G4 class machine.
The current version gets a big speed boost, because the G3/G4 processor can run in little endian mode. The new version for the G5 is going to have to spin every opcode from little-endian mode to big-endian mode, run the command, then (possibly) convert back to little-endian mode.
I suspect that versions of Virtual PC that ran on 604 based Macs will run fine on a G5...just slower than the current Virtual PC release on slower hardware!
This may be a good place to get the advertising dept. involved. If you could get a local cell phone carrier to "advertise their service/phones/whatever" at the game by providing free calls to customers (or calls and internet) at each event. You may even be able to make a profit on this service!
1. I'm certain a fairly large percentage of the population bought a new PC for home and another new one was provided for them in the office.
2. Lots of companies buy dozens of spare machines each year...some laptops for surprise business travel/presentations
3. Does that population number include non-citizens? (H1-B workers, L1 workers, tourists buying cheaper computers here than abroad in their own countries?) Also, are you sure it includes Children? I'm willing to bet many families have more than one PC in their houses.
4. Zealot Spending. There are many zealots of a certain fruit-flavored computer company that seem to need to purchase one of every new machines that the company makes...I'm guessing at least "4" for them...
5. I'm willing to bet that there was a certain (large?) percentage of the/. readership that bought more than one box.
6. What exactly counts as a "computer"? Do Palm/iPaq machines count?
Do I seriously think that the US averaged purchasing almost 2 computers per person last year? No, however, I wouldn't have been surprised to see this number during the "boom" ages!
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No, but the number of posts regarding Jaguar has died on the newsgroups...it's just a logical conclusion. (Wasn't Jaguar related to a *BSD anyway?):-)
That's one problem with books...is they always will be outdated! There is nothing you can do about that...by the time the Panther book is finished, the next Mac OS X will be on its way out
However, that doesn't mean the Apache section will be useless...also, you will likely understand the enough about the system to be able to understand which changes have been made after Jaguar...
1. Like you mention, get a sepearate Palm & phone. If you purchase a Tungsten T, and a bluetooth phone (dozens available for GSM, SonyEricsson T608c for Sprint soon), you'll be able to use the internet on the Palm w/o connecting a cable to the phone!
2. Sony-Ericsson P800 Smartphone. It's bigger than most stand-alone phones you can buy today, but it seems smaller than many of the palm/phone combos you can buy today. It seems like it is not quite as powerful and full featured as a Palm/Phone combo, but it also has more features available to it than a standard phone. However, these only run on a GSM network, so if you are with a CDMA provider, then this isn't an option.
3. Just get a phone. Many phones now days have address books, date books and such that you can sync with your computer. Importing the data from the computer is as simple as a cable and software process. With J2ME/BREW available, you may be able to write what custom software you need to do the job!
I know you shortened the story you printed above, but does the managment know how everyone in the dept feels? (It's obvious that nobody wants increased hours without more pay, but do they realize how upset everyone really is over this?)
If you did really enjoy your job beforehand, I would create a list (along with the rest of the dept) of the main issues that need to be resolved to make the situation better. Once you do that, explain in a rational manner why these changes need to be made (ie: I understand that money is tight around here, but our dept will not work the extra hours for free. We are vital to the success of this company, etc). Do *not* make any threats (ie: we will all quit). Give the management a chance to change things for the positive!
If that still doesn't work, then it likely would be best to quit. Alot of people will recommend that you stay until you find a new job, but life is too short to be in a position you hate, while working your life away! If you can afford it, get out!
Good to see you proving the US-centric point there - rest of world != Bulgaria, and in fact good GSM coverage makes it easier to use a cell phone almost any country in the world, as well as parts of the US where your telco doesn't have coverage but another GSM telco does. Are you really saying that 95% of Americans don't travel more than 20 miles from their homes? Many of them drive much further than that just to visit friends, and people seem much more willing to hop on a plane than in Europe.
Geez...GSM is the World Standard again? In the last 6 months, here are the countries I've been to: Colombia, Brazil, China, Japan and South Korea. I was able to pick up a GSM signal on my AT&T Wireless GSM phone in Brazil and China. My Verizon phone, which uses CDMA worked fine in Japan, Colombia, and South Korea.
IMHO, you don't want too much governmental regulation. If someone develops a wireless idea that is very good, then don't allow the government to block the useage of that because some official someplace got a kick back from a competitor!
What's going to be the best next generation technology? CDMA? UMTS (WCDMA)? XYZ? Let's let the operators figure out which will provide the best "bang for the buck" and let them compete!
This is a good point. IE for the Mac isn't the best product ever created, however there are some websites that require IE to run. If Mac users lost out on this, I think it would be bad during the long run...
Not that this is very insightful, but I was able to see this trailer at E3. It kept showing on a loop, and each time it was shown, a large crowd gathered around. Everyone there seemed to comment that it was amazing, and it's worth spending a bunch of money to upgrade their PCs when it is released!
Certain cell phone network equipment *does* use differentiated frequencies. In the US, if you use GSM, TDMA or AMPS, then frequency (and time in TDMA and GSM) is used to seperate users.
Well, so you smugly say, well, I use a CDMA phone, and all CDMA networks are able to use the same frequency. However, each RBS is given a Pn offset so the phone can identify which RBS to talk to, plus it knows who to hand off to. (ummm...this is all aproximately correct). In a plane, you will likely be going so fast, that the doppler shift would be large enough to confuse the RBS your phone has been assigned to talk to.
If one person on a plane does this, is it likely to be a problem? No. However, if a 747 filled with several hundred people are all talking on their cell phones at once, a huge network capacity problem would exist!
Even if the interest rate was 1% you should still pay it off early if you can. That is 1% of your money that you will instantly save.
I strongly disagree with this (note: I'm not a financial analyst...just some guy who likes computers and reads slashdot). However, this is my line of thinking:
Let's say you owe $1000, and you pay off $10 a month as the minimum at 1% interest. If you pay off the $1000 now, then that debt is gone. However, if you are able to pay off the $1000 in say three years time (at 0% interest) then you'll pay less ($1000 in time is going to be worth less than $1000 today), plus you could earn more money on interest (if you invest it)
The break-even point is the annual inflation rate. If the interest rate is higher than the inflation rate, then you're losing money, but if it is less than the inflation rate, then you're making money...
But again...I'm just some guy who reads slashot. Not a financial analysts...
I understand where you are coming from. However, technically, the SIM lock is just a code, too. It's just harder to socially engineer it:-)
The URL you pointed to was a very informative URL. I work in the wireless industry, but on Network equipment (not phones...yet), so there were a few things I didn't know.
However, I am looking forward to the R-UIM cards from Qualcomm! It should make people's lives much less miserable trying to switch a phone from one carrier to the other!
No, the technologies are incompatible. It is akin to a Win32 executable trying to run in a MacOS enviroment...they use different technologies (x86 vs. PPC), so there is an inherant technological incompatiblity.
In the wireless world, there are several different standards, and for the most part, they are incompatible with each other. The most common (in the US/Europe) are GSM, CDMA, TDMA, iDen and AMPS. Each phone has one or more ASIC to decode the data transmitted by a certain standard. Some phones support two or more standards (for example, most of Verizon's phones support CDMA and AMPS, while some of AT&T's phones support TDMA (and AMPS...they are compatible) and GSM. Since you are T-Mobile, they only sell GSM phones*, so you would only be able to roam on AT&T, Cingular, and some smaller GSM providers.
In EU European countries, GSM was mandated as the 2G technology, while WCDMA was "blessed" as the official 3G technology. Specific frequencies were allocated to handle each need. In the US, the (PCS) frequencies were sold to the providers, with the understanding that they only put "digital" technologies for cell phone service. There were no mandates. Which is best remains to be seen.
*Qualcomm has announced a chipset that has both a CDMA and GSM ASIC. If you had one of those phones, and (say) Verizon or Sprint had CDMA coverage where you didn't have T-Mobile Coverage, (and T-Mobile had a roaming agreement with them) then you could make a call roaming-free:-)
Someone already mentioned that GSM phones can have a "SIM" lock, which some providers use to keep the phone from running on other provider's networks. For most phones, it costs the customer about $25 to get their phone unlocked.
In the CDMA world, there are no SIM cards on a phone (at least not yet, Qualcomm has proposed a R-UIM card, which looks like a SIM card, and should be inter-operable with a SIM Card, but that's a story for another day).
CDMA providers have the ability to put a MSL (If I Remember Correctly, it stands for "Master Subsidy Lock"), which will prevent the phone from taking PRLs (Preferred Roaming Lists) from other providers. So, you're phone will never be able to use the network other than the one that sold you the phone. Currently Sprint puts a MSL on all of their "cool" phones so that Verizon customers can't buy them and use them on Verizon's network. (The Samsung A500 is a great example).
Unlike Europe, you WILL have to buy a new phone. Most phones are sold at discounted prices only if you sign a service agreement. If you take your number to another carrier, not only is your old phone useless, you will also have to pay the full price of the phone.
You won't *always* have to buy a new phone. If you switch from Verizon to Sprint, or T-Mobile to Cingular (etc), there is no reason why the phone shouldn't work on the other network. In the US, most providers "subsidy lock" their phones, which makes it hard to use it on a new provider, but there are methods of "unlocking" the phone.
There are obviously some technical issues that will prevent some phones from working on some networks (ie: a Verizon phone on AT&T's network...GSM and CDMA are different standards) However, I don't really think it's a bad thing. If one standard has more features that you are looking for (ie. higher data rates, better voice quality, roaming in countries you frequent often, etc), then use a provider that uses that standard! IMHO, having several competing standards forces both the operators and the standards bodies to compete for your business!
Verizon does. They also supply the cables for their phones. However, like everything else from Verizon, this is pretty expensive. They have unlimited data for $99/month, and plans that aren't unlimited for less.
They are also testing what's known as 1xEV-DO, which is a version of CDMA that is optimized for data. There is a theoritical max rate of 2.4Mbps, with the goal of most subscribers to be recieving 300-500kbps. Networks are currently up and running in San Diego and Washington. I have no idea if they are selling this service or not...
I know exactly how you feel. I started to feel this way a few months ago, when I realized the Samsung A500 was never going to come out for Verizon!
I'm still a customer, but I'm getting closer and closer to switching to another provider. I will admit that they still have the largest network footprint, but in my market, other providers have slowly caught up in call quality. (San Diego).
Add to that the insistance of Verizon to have "outdated" phones and to only support technologies they can charge for (BREW...aka "Get It Now") instead of open standards...it costs lots of money to develop for BREW, but J2ME is free (as in beer).
(Examples: They never released the A500 from Samsung, primarly because it had J2ME support, and not BREW. They will release the A530 soon, but it is slightly larger, and doesn't look as good. They also botched the T720 release, because they insisted that J2ME not exist. Many Verizon users are unhappy with the performance of this phone, while other service providers users are very happy with it!)
So, for me, it is a question of is it worth paying $10 more a month for a larger coverage area, versus having handsets that do more of what I would want my handset to do and a network provider that is more "open"
Verizon (and Sprint) uses a different network standard (called CDMA) than AT&T (and Cingular/T-Mobile) do (GSM). To avoid a vi/emacs level flame war, let's not discuss which one is better:-)
There is a model very similiar that is coming out for Sprint (and other CDMA providers). It looks the same, but it doesn't include the built in Camera. It does have bluetooth, though. It is called the T608.
Verizon has quasi-announced that they aren't going to be supporting any new bluetooth phones, until they can charge for the data transfered between the phone and the external device (according to a Verizon Insider on HowardForums.) They get there own version of this phone called the T606, which supports BREW, but does not have the built in camera or bluetooth support.
If you go to Phone Scoop, they have pretty informative pieces on each of these phones...plus a giant preview of all of Sony Ericssons new phones!
Interesting points about why Apple created their new Browser. However, I think that the primary reason that Apple began creating their own browser was because Apple is realizing that they need to seperate themselves from Microsoft.
When they started this project, the only browser choices for OS X were Mozilla. OmniWeb and IE (Chimera may have just been starting up) --Note, IE OS X wasn't very good, Mozilla was still slow and Omni wasn't very compliant.
Apple also released their own version of "PowerPoint", and I would expect them to release their own version of office (Maybe KOffice?).
Last summer, Apple & Microsoft's 5 year agreement for MS to develop software for the Macintosh had expired. "Analysists" have now said that Apple has around 3% market share, and that MS wouldn't lose much money if they were to stop supporting the Macintosh platform.
I honestly think that Apple is just creating a "plan B"!
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Maybe the /. editors should move the body of this comment to the story, so that this can be more easily seen by the /. crowd!
Playing games has never been "cool" its' been maybe fun
Maybe on a handheld...however, watching the commericals for games like Madden and SoCom, I'm pretty convinced that the game industy has turned certain types of games into "cool"
Bochs is so much slower than Virtual PC that I don't consider it an alternative at all.
I don't have any inside information, however, I am suspecting that the next version of Virtual PC will be much slower on a G5 than Virtual PC (current) on a G3/G4 class machine.
The current version gets a big speed boost, because the G3/G4 processor can run in little endian mode. The new version for the G5 is going to have to spin every opcode from little-endian mode to big-endian mode, run the command, then (possibly) convert back to little-endian mode.
I suspect that versions of Virtual PC that ran on 604 based Macs will run fine on a G5...just slower than the current Virtual PC release on slower hardware!
This may be a good place to get the advertising dept. involved. If you could get a local cell phone carrier to "advertise their service/phones/whatever" at the game by providing free calls to customers (or calls and internet) at each event. You may even be able to make a profit on this service!
I wonder how far-fetched that number really is.
/. readership that bought more than one box.
1. I'm certain a fairly large percentage of the population bought a new PC for home and another new one was provided for them in the office.
2. Lots of companies buy dozens of spare machines each year...some laptops for surprise business travel/presentations
3. Does that population number include non-citizens? (H1-B workers, L1 workers, tourists buying cheaper computers here than abroad in their own countries?) Also, are you sure it includes Children? I'm willing to bet many families have more than one PC in their houses.
4. Zealot Spending. There are many zealots of a certain fruit-flavored computer company that seem to need to purchase one of every new machines that the company makes...I'm guessing at least "4" for them...
5. I'm willing to bet that there was a certain (large?) percentage of the
6. What exactly counts as a "computer"? Do Palm/iPaq machines count?
Do I seriously think that the US averaged purchasing almost 2 computers per person last year? No, however, I wouldn't have been surprised to see this number during the "boom" ages!
No, but the number of posts regarding Jaguar has died on the newsgroups...it's just a logical conclusion. (Wasn't Jaguar related to a *BSD anyway?) :-)
That's one problem with books...is they always will be outdated! There is nothing you can do about that...by the time the Panther book is finished, the next Mac OS X will be on its way out
However, that doesn't mean the Apache section will be useless...also, you will likely understand the enough about the system to be able to understand which changes have been made after Jaguar...
I realize you are responding to a troll, but there is a surprising amount of software at my local apple store that runs on both Macs and Windows!
There are many options for you!
1. Like you mention, get a sepearate Palm & phone. If you purchase a Tungsten T, and a bluetooth phone (dozens available for GSM, SonyEricsson T608c for Sprint soon), you'll be able to use the internet on the Palm w/o connecting a cable to the phone!
2. Sony-Ericsson P800 Smartphone. It's bigger than most stand-alone phones you can buy today, but it seems smaller than many of the palm/phone combos you can buy today. It seems like it is not quite as powerful and full featured as a Palm/Phone combo, but it also has more features available to it than a standard phone. However, these only run on a GSM network, so if you are with a CDMA provider, then this isn't an option.
3. Just get a phone. Many phones now days have address books, date books and such that you can sync with your computer. Importing the data from the computer is as simple as a cable and software process. With J2ME/BREW available, you may be able to write what custom software you need to do the job!
I know you shortened the story you printed above, but does the managment know how everyone in the dept feels? (It's obvious that nobody wants increased hours without more pay, but do they realize how upset everyone really is over this?)
If you did really enjoy your job beforehand, I would create a list (along with the rest of the dept) of the main issues that need to be resolved to make the situation better. Once you do that, explain in a rational manner why these changes need to be made (ie: I understand that money is tight around here, but our dept will not work the extra hours for free. We are vital to the success of this company, etc). Do *not* make any threats (ie: we will all quit). Give the management a chance to change things for the positive!
If that still doesn't work, then it likely would be best to quit. Alot of people will recommend that you stay until you find a new job, but life is too short to be in a position you hate, while working your life away! If you can afford it, get out!
Good to see you proving the US-centric point there - rest of world != Bulgaria, and in fact good GSM coverage makes it easier to use a cell phone almost any country in the world, as well as parts of the US where your telco doesn't have coverage but another GSM telco does. Are you really saying that 95% of Americans don't travel more than 20 miles from their homes? Many of them drive much further than that just to visit friends, and people seem much more willing to hop on a plane than in Europe.
Geez...GSM is the World Standard again? In the last 6 months, here are the countries I've been to: Colombia, Brazil, China, Japan and South Korea. I was able to pick up a GSM signal on my AT&T Wireless GSM phone in Brazil and China. My Verizon phone, which uses CDMA worked fine in Japan, Colombia, and South Korea.
IMHO, you don't want too much governmental regulation. If someone develops a wireless idea that is very good, then don't allow the government to block the useage of that because some official someplace got a kick back from a competitor!
What's going to be the best next generation technology? CDMA? UMTS (WCDMA)? XYZ? Let's let the operators figure out which will provide the best "bang for the buck" and let them compete!
I'm willing to bet we will see that change now that Pearl Jam has announced they will be independant!
This is a good point. IE for the Mac isn't the best product ever created, however there are some websites that require IE to run. If Mac users lost out on this, I think it would be bad during the long run...
Not that this is very insightful, but I was able to see this trailer at E3. It kept showing on a loop, and each time it was shown, a large crowd gathered around. Everyone there seemed to comment that it was amazing, and it's worth spending a bunch of money to upgrade their PCs when it is released!
Certain cell phone network equipment *does* use differentiated frequencies. In the US, if you use GSM, TDMA or AMPS, then frequency (and time in TDMA and GSM) is used to seperate users.
Well, so you smugly say, well, I use a CDMA phone, and all CDMA networks are able to use the same frequency. However, each RBS is given a Pn offset so the phone can identify which RBS to talk to, plus it knows who to hand off to. (ummm...this is all aproximately correct). In a plane, you will likely be going so fast, that the doppler shift would be large enough to confuse the RBS your phone has been assigned to talk to.
If one person on a plane does this, is it likely to be a problem? No. However, if a 747 filled with several hundred people are all talking on their cell phones at once, a huge network capacity problem would exist!
Even if the interest rate was 1% you should still pay it off early if you can. That is 1% of your money that you will instantly save.
I strongly disagree with this (note: I'm not a financial analyst...just some guy who likes computers and reads slashdot). However, this is my line of thinking:
Let's say you owe $1000, and you pay off $10 a month as the minimum at 1% interest. If you pay off the $1000 now, then that debt is gone. However, if you are able to pay off the $1000 in say three years time (at 0% interest) then you'll pay less ($1000 in time is going to be worth less than $1000 today), plus you could earn more money on interest (if you invest it)
The break-even point is the annual inflation rate. If the interest rate is higher than the inflation rate, then you're losing money, but if it is less than the inflation rate, then you're making money...
But again...I'm just some guy who reads slashot. Not a financial analysts...
I understand where you are coming from. However, technically, the SIM lock is just a code, too. It's just harder to socially engineer it :-)
The URL you pointed to was a very informative URL. I work in the wireless industry, but on Network equipment (not phones...yet), so there were a few things I didn't know.
However, I am looking forward to the R-UIM cards from Qualcomm! It should make people's lives much less miserable trying to switch a phone from one carrier to the other!
No, the technologies are incompatible. It is akin to a Win32 executable trying to run in a MacOS enviroment...they use different technologies (x86 vs. PPC), so there is an inherant technological incompatiblity.
:-)
In the wireless world, there are several different standards, and for the most part, they are incompatible with each other. The most common (in the US/Europe) are GSM, CDMA, TDMA, iDen and AMPS. Each phone has one or more ASIC to decode the data transmitted by a certain standard. Some phones support two or more standards (for example, most of Verizon's phones support CDMA and AMPS, while some of AT&T's phones support TDMA (and AMPS...they are compatible) and GSM. Since you are T-Mobile, they only sell GSM phones*, so you would only be able to roam on AT&T, Cingular, and some smaller GSM providers.
In EU European countries, GSM was mandated as the 2G technology, while WCDMA was "blessed" as the official 3G technology. Specific frequencies were allocated to handle each need. In the US, the (PCS) frequencies were sold to the providers, with the understanding that they only put "digital" technologies for cell phone service. There were no mandates. Which is best remains to be seen.
*Qualcomm has announced a chipset that has both a CDMA and GSM ASIC. If you had one of those phones, and (say) Verizon or Sprint had CDMA coverage where you didn't have T-Mobile Coverage, (and T-Mobile had a roaming agreement with them) then you could make a call roaming-free
See my reply here:
Someone already mentioned that GSM phones can have a "SIM" lock, which some providers use to keep the phone from running on other provider's networks. For most phones, it costs the customer about $25 to get their phone unlocked.
In the CDMA world, there are no SIM cards on a phone (at least not yet, Qualcomm has proposed a R-UIM card, which looks like a SIM card, and should be inter-operable with a SIM Card, but that's a story for another day).
CDMA providers have the ability to put a MSL (If I Remember Correctly, it stands for "Master Subsidy Lock"), which will prevent the phone from taking PRLs (Preferred Roaming Lists) from other providers. So, you're phone will never be able to use the network other than the one that sold you the phone. Currently Sprint puts a MSL on all of their "cool" phones so that Verizon customers can't buy them and use them on Verizon's network. (The Samsung A500 is a great example).
Unlike Europe, you WILL have to buy a new phone. Most phones are sold at discounted prices only if you sign a service agreement. If you take your number to another carrier, not only is your old phone useless, you will also have to pay the full price of the phone.
You won't *always* have to buy a new phone. If you switch from Verizon to Sprint, or T-Mobile to Cingular (etc), there is no reason why the phone shouldn't work on the other network. In the US, most providers "subsidy lock" their phones, which makes it hard to use it on a new provider, but there are methods of "unlocking" the phone.
There are obviously some technical issues that will prevent some phones from working on some networks (ie: a Verizon phone on AT&T's network...GSM and CDMA are different standards) However, I don't really think it's a bad thing. If one standard has more features that you are looking for (ie. higher data rates, better voice quality, roaming in countries you frequent often, etc), then use a provider that uses that standard! IMHO, having several competing standards forces both the operators and the standards bodies to compete for your business!
Verizon does. They also supply the cables for their phones. However, like everything else from Verizon, this is pretty expensive. They have unlimited data for $99/month, and plans that aren't unlimited for less.
They are also testing what's known as 1xEV-DO, which is a version of CDMA that is optimized for data. There is a theoritical max rate of 2.4Mbps, with the goal of most subscribers to be recieving 300-500kbps. Networks are currently up and running in San Diego and Washington. I have no idea if they are selling this service or not...
I know exactly how you feel. I started to feel this way a few months ago, when I realized the Samsung A500 was never going to come out for Verizon!
I'm still a customer, but I'm getting closer and closer to switching to another provider. I will admit that they still have the largest network footprint, but in my market, other providers have slowly caught up in call quality. (San Diego).
Add to that the insistance of Verizon to have "outdated" phones and to only support technologies they can charge for (BREW...aka "Get It Now") instead of open standards...it costs lots of money to develop for BREW, but J2ME is free (as in beer). (Examples: They never released the A500 from Samsung, primarly because it had J2ME support, and not BREW. They will release the A530 soon, but it is slightly larger, and doesn't look as good. They also botched the T720 release, because they insisted that J2ME not exist. Many Verizon users are unhappy with the performance of this phone, while other service providers users are very happy with it!) So, for me, it is a question of is it worth paying $10 more a month for a larger coverage area, versus having handsets that do more of what I would want my handset to do and a network provider that is more "open"
Verizon (and Sprint) uses a different network standard (called CDMA) than AT&T (and Cingular/T-Mobile) do (GSM). To avoid a vi/emacs level flame war, let's not discuss which one is better :-)
There is a model very similiar that is coming out for Sprint (and other CDMA providers). It looks the same, but it doesn't include the built in Camera. It does have bluetooth, though. It is called the T608.
Verizon has quasi-announced that they aren't going to be supporting any new bluetooth phones, until they can charge for the data transfered between the phone and the external device (according to a Verizon Insider on HowardForums.) They get there own version of this phone called the T606, which supports BREW, but does not have the built in camera or bluetooth support.
If you go to Phone Scoop, they have pretty informative pieces on each of these phones...plus a giant preview of all of Sony Ericssons new phones!
Interesting points about why Apple created their new Browser. However, I think that the primary reason that Apple began creating their own browser was because Apple is realizing that they need to seperate themselves from Microsoft.
When they started this project, the only browser choices for OS X were Mozilla. OmniWeb and IE (Chimera may have just been starting up) --Note, IE OS X wasn't very good, Mozilla was still slow and Omni wasn't very compliant.
Apple also released their own version of "PowerPoint", and I would expect them to release their own version of office (Maybe KOffice?).
Last summer, Apple & Microsoft's 5 year agreement for MS to develop software for the Macintosh had expired. "Analysists" have now said that Apple has around 3% market share, and that MS wouldn't lose much money if they were to stop supporting the Macintosh platform.
I honestly think that Apple is just creating a "plan B"!