Good luck with that. Nokia, Motorola, Sony none of these build anything that competes with Apple products on par. With 70% and change, they're going to not get to Nokia anytime soon. Series 40, 60, 80 and the 770/800 make for quite well-made phones.
Not all that Sony makes will flop. Where Nokia does well with well-rounded smartphones, they've been able to do well at multimedia phones.
Motorola on the other hand, you can see that they aren't ashamed of the low quality of Chinese manufacturing. Outside of the RAZR (except for the other iFailure), it shows well. They just do without the Apple disguise.
Apple will dominate... Apple might as well be content that they're little more than just someone who makes a crippled "Internet Tablet knockoff".
AT&T won't kill the i****e, but it's going to pen it in a very, very small corner. As for Verizon, they'll be just fine without it.
The only right move would have been to make it with those missing features, and put AT&T to the task of building up 3G to more places.
I'm glad to see phones (in general) feature complex functionality and come with applications previously found on the desktop. There'll be a day when your cell phone is your laptop. Plug in a standard keyboard, mouse, and monitor and away you go. Unfortunately the N770/N800 beat them to the punch with that. The only thing missing with those is the cellphone's radio. Unlike the i****e, you're not locked in, and they dont mind being open.
Phones like the Treo, Blackberry, and Nokia Communicators are the precursors.. Fixed that for you.
With a good chunk of the "smartphone" base (and a sizable part of the rest), they have to be doing something right consistently.
Or you can go with an unlocked phone with all that and more. No touchscreen, no lock-in, no lack of 3G, no closed door to third party apps. Gambling for version 2 might not be a good idea.
Ignoring energy, you would be much better off with two cheap computers as long as you could divide the tasks. ...while ignoring quality, and space taken up by both machines.
For instance, you could have one computer to compile on and another for listening to music/ wordprocessing/ browsing the web/ answering email. Not only that but you could turn one computer off when you didn't need it and save energy thereby.
For tasks that can be shared, it would seem that a cluster of cheap computers is more cost effective than one hotrod box.
Until you end up having to deal with returns and questionable quality of the components. Might as well go with the hotrod and end up with less replacement going on until it's really needed.
AT&T phones will have Wachovia already installed in their phones by fourth quarter 2007. I guess the "ph" in iPhone will get a strange emphasis with people's accounts "mysteriously drained" for some reason.
This ruling is a coup, nay, a revolution for Corporate America. Without this provision, no possible antitrust enforcement will ever be pursued again. Thanks guys for declaring open season on the law of the land, small business, the Internet and the American people. Thank Reagan for this one, and about everything anti-consumer past 1981 up to today.
That, or buy it at Wal-Mart, I guess. There are sizable populations that do not make it a point to contribute to the Communist Party of China moreso than they already are.
The public has already spoken; they prefer low prices to good service, or not funding pure fucking evil. When it's the only (practical) option on the plate, people will go towards low quality and low prices.
Despite those other people's suggesstions that it should be that way, I believe Nokia has a model(VOIP and Voice Dial) or another(yes, this one is tri-band, but is fine if you're not going NSAT&T).
Sure, neither of them has a "touch screen", but both are out now, and in fully unlocked and developer friendly form. Sure, both have a higher price tag but you can have any provider the hardware will support.
As for the folks who are averse to having such in a car, please move to the nearest cellphone hostile state.
So is using your large companies power for the greater good doing (or being) evil?
Google gave up that at China. Now if they used their clout against China, similarly setup countries, and those who front both of those groups, then they'd be doing good by using their power to entice the government to make the necessary changes. However, it's not like we're going to get much cooperation short of a Congress that has backbone enough to Say No (and resist any urge by economists to abandon the effort).
Given the person's stated background, I'm not even the least bit surprised he reached this conclusion. That being, that as someone's educational background is more exposed to restricted admissions universities such as MIT, the more they want to implement that as an end-run around the public. The only clear misinformation out of this was with the W3C.
Now, could someone have informed him clearly about who foots the bills for the building? It's not like it's run by a organization who insists on a large Far Eastern presence.
Thanks in part to her help, over 100 million Eastern Europeans are now living free and better lives. Well, mind that Ronald "PATCO" Reagan did some heavy lifting to help on that one.
Yes, she only broke the destructive unions that were impoverishing Britain No, she simply gave businesses the green light to sell out on their country, with hollow results. Same poverty, just swept under the rug, and with foreign knockoffs of tons of UK vehicles.
The only thing that she did was to make the UK serve as a reminder of what happens when you institute such anti-domestic policies.
It's a travesty that a destructive bitch like Thatcher was placed in the company of Florence Nightingale, Sir Winston Churchill, Bertrand Russell, Graham Greene, Sir Edward Elgar, and Mother Teresa. Well, some people seem to misplace humanity - even if they end up selling out their country for the Holy Pound Sterling. It also doesnt help that her leadership made a tempest out of a teapot for an island.
The mind really boggles. The Queen should have known better. Yes, yet apparently the mods thought otherwise.
While he does deserve the honors, mind that the Queen is permitted a few mistakes. It's a reminder that they're just as human as the rest of us, but quite a reminder it was.
...and Margaret Thatcher. I thought that took work in a positive direction, not a negative one. Scargill, maybe, but nothing a Reagan adherent is worthy of having.
Asia is large and growing rapidly That's a problem easily taken care of by a few finely crafted US/EU assets.
Should Asia fall, there's always a possibility of just scrapping the WTO, all other current trade treaties, and making the EU into a North Atlantic group large enough to make Asia fall back.
Trade barrier and publicly shredding any letter you get from an economist(lest they do another 1000 letter bit again): Priceless
A few calculated "accidents" causing the fall of countries formerly siphoning off jobs from your country: Beyond priceless.
There's the Austrian model, and there's defending your country from all threats foreign and domestic.
I postulate the US of the future will be a technological backwater in the coming years with it's trade policies and legal foolishness.
If it is to hard to sell in the US, so what... there is a whole new up and coming world out there (ironically fueled by US economic suicide.)
Not if there are a few well-calculated Oops's over in Asia. The sun wont set on the US just yet, we just have to stop helping their students and start helping our (and only our) own on a 100% non-competitive basis towards a full education. If they want to invade MIT, they'll have to accept reciprocated degrees attained in their home country. Save the competition for the Olympics, admissions and education are not the place.
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Wouldnt be surprised if Apple had things running like this in China.
Good luck with that. Nokia, Motorola, Sony none of these build anything that competes with Apple products on par.
With 70% and change, they're going to not get to Nokia anytime soon. Series 40, 60, 80 and the 770/800 make for quite well-made phones.
Not all that Sony makes will flop. Where Nokia does well with well-rounded smartphones, they've been able to do well at multimedia phones.
Motorola on the other hand, you can see that they aren't ashamed of the low quality of Chinese manufacturing. Outside of the RAZR (except for the other iFailure), it shows well. They just do without the Apple disguise.
Apple will dominate...
Apple might as well be content that they're little more than just someone who makes a crippled "Internet Tablet knockoff".
AT&T won't kill the i****e, but it's going to pen it in a very, very small corner. As for Verizon, they'll be just fine without it.
The only right move would have been to make it with those missing features, and put AT&T to the task of building up 3G to more places.
I'm glad to see phones (in general) feature complex functionality and come with applications previously found on the desktop. There'll be a day when your cell phone is your laptop. Plug in a standard keyboard, mouse, and monitor and away you go.
Unfortunately the N770/N800 beat them to the punch with that. The only thing missing with those is the cellphone's radio. Unlike the i****e, you're not locked in, and they dont mind being open.
Phones like the Treo, Blackberry, and Nokia Communicators are the precursors..
Fixed that for you.
With a good chunk of the "smartphone" base (and a sizable part of the rest), they have to be doing something right consistently.
Or you can go with an unlocked phone with all that and more. No touchscreen, no lock-in, no lack of 3G, no closed door to third party apps. Gambling for version 2 might not be a good idea.
Ignoring energy, you would be much better off with two cheap computers as long as you could divide the tasks.
For instance, you could have one computer to compile on and another for listening to music/ wordprocessing/ browsing the web/ answering email. Not only that but you could turn one computer off when you didn't need it and save energy thereby.
For tasks that can be shared, it would seem that a cluster of cheap computers is more cost effective than one hotrod box.
Until you end up having to deal with returns and questionable quality of the components. Might as well go with the hotrod and end up with less replacement going on until it's really needed.
AT&T phones will have Wachovia already installed in their phones by fourth quarter 2007.
I guess the "ph" in iPhone will get a strange emphasis with people's accounts "mysteriously drained" for some reason.
This ruling is a coup, nay, a revolution for Corporate America. Without this provision, no possible antitrust enforcement will ever be pursued again. Thanks guys for declaring open season on the law of the land, small business, the Internet and the American people.
Thank Reagan for this one, and about everything anti-consumer past 1981 up to today.
That, or buy it at Wal-Mart, I guess.
There are sizable populations that do not make it a point to contribute to the Communist Party of China moreso than they already are.
The public has already spoken; they prefer low prices to good service, or not funding pure fucking evil.
When it's the only (practical) option on the plate, people will go towards low quality and low prices.
Despite those other people's suggesstions that it should be that way, I believe Nokia has a model(VOIP and Voice Dial) or another(yes, this one is tri-band, but is fine if you're not going NSAT&T).
Sure, neither of them has a "touch screen", but both are out now, and in fully unlocked and developer friendly form. Sure, both have a higher price tag but you can have any provider the hardware will support.
As for the folks who are averse to having such in a car, please move to the nearest cellphone hostile state.
So is using your large companies power for the greater good doing (or being) evil?
Google gave up that at China. Now if they used their clout against China, similarly setup countries, and those who front both of those groups, then they'd be doing good by using their power to entice the government to make the necessary changes. However, it's not like we're going to get much cooperation short of a Congress that has backbone enough to Say No (and resist any urge by economists to abandon the effort).
not the second coming... I'm getting sick and tired of this iPhone mania...
Maybe the Second Failing, the ROKR being the first...
Given how pro-Apple Roughly Drafted is, they rank on the order of The Pigpile.
Followed by "refined" Chinese models after they get bought by some foreign firm.
Given the person's stated background, I'm not even the least bit surprised he reached this conclusion. That being, that as someone's educational background is more exposed to restricted admissions universities such as MIT, the more they want to implement that as an end-run around the public. The only clear misinformation out of this was with the W3C.
Now, could someone have informed him clearly about who foots the bills for the building? It's not like it's run by a organization who insists on a large Far Eastern presence.
Now "Reach out and touch someone" has some actual meaning to it.
Thanks in part to her help, over 100 million Eastern Europeans are now living free and better lives.
Well, mind that Ronald "PATCO" Reagan did some heavy lifting to help on that one.
Yes, she only broke the destructive unions that were impoverishing Britain
No, she simply gave businesses the green light to sell out on their country, with hollow results. Same poverty, just swept under the rug, and with foreign knockoffs of tons of UK vehicles.
The only thing that she did was to make the UK serve as a reminder of what happens when you institute such anti-domestic policies.
It's a travesty that a destructive bitch like Thatcher was placed in the company of Florence Nightingale, Sir Winston Churchill, Bertrand Russell, Graham Greene, Sir Edward Elgar, and Mother Teresa.
Well, some people seem to misplace humanity - even if they end up selling out their country for the Holy Pound Sterling. It also doesnt help that her leadership made a tempest out of a teapot for an island.
The mind really boggles. The Queen should have known better.
Yes, yet apparently the mods thought otherwise.
While he does deserve the honors, mind that the Queen is permitted a few mistakes. It's a reminder that they're just as human as the rest of us, but quite a reminder it was.
...and Margaret Thatcher.
I thought that took work in a positive direction, not a negative one. Scargill, maybe, but nothing a Reagan adherent is worthy of having.
EDGE, 802.11b, Bluetooth, Java, and PuTTY all on a QWERTY keyboard:Nokia 9500
Expensive (~$1000) successor to the 9500, but is more like 2 phones in one package (same openness, more connectivity):Nokia E90
One of the other ones(S60, small form factor):
Nokia E61i
Yes, despite the European site origin, all are availible now if not upcoming(E90) to the US.
Unlike that iWhat device, all of these can use third party apps, and are open to development.
I thought they already had something to deal with the speed of patents - money?
Yes, however at this point it'd require a 40% tariff to get more variety in, and publicly shredding any economist's letter that comes in.
Money, and any of those "free trade" agreements put forth that end up taking jobs.
Since Yahoo learned what "Roll over" means in all the Chinese dialects, and how to say "Yes, sir" as well.
I've yet to know if they know what human rights means.
Asia is large and growing rapidly
That's a problem easily taken care of by a few finely crafted US/EU assets.
Should Asia fall, there's always a possibility of just scrapping the WTO, all other current trade treaties, and making the EU into a North Atlantic group large enough to make Asia fall back.
US market: 300 million people
Asian market: 2,000 million people
Trade barrier and publicly shredding any letter you get from an economist(lest they do another 1000 letter bit again): Priceless
A few calculated "accidents" causing the fall of countries formerly siphoning off jobs from your country: Beyond priceless.
There's the Austrian model, and there's defending your country from all threats foreign and domestic.
I postulate the US of the future will be a technological backwater in the coming years with it's trade policies and legal foolishness.
If it is to hard to sell in the US, so what... there is a whole new up and coming world out there (ironically fueled by US economic suicide.)
Not if there are a few well-calculated Oops's over in Asia. The sun wont set on the US just yet, we just have to stop helping their students and start helping our (and only our) own on a 100% non-competitive basis towards a full education. If they want to invade MIT, they'll have to accept reciprocated degrees attained in their home
country. Save the competition for the Olympics, admissions and education are not the place.