Wish I had mod points for this. I'm very interested, and it's surely in the public interest to know what's going on in the company they choose to invest in.
Alas, the threat of competition will cause them to hire more lawyers to fight than implement new tech at cheaper prices.
Google will/really/ have it's work cut out fighting, as EVERYONE will throw EVERYTHING they have and the lobby industry is strong with the carriers as they'll do everything they can to stop things changing.
Of course,there's also a huge risk to Google's handset sales for any other network, why would AT&T/Sprint/Verizon sell Android phones if they can be switched over to Google's wireless(?) network? Note, I left TMobile out of that as I still suspect they'll eventually be the ones to sell out to Google, with the towers/backhaul/stores already in place, they'd make for the most logical 'Google store' experience to get everything you need, the phones, the plans, the GoogleTV hardware/subscriptions, the tablets, and whatever else Google sells next. Heck, even a 'physical dropbox' to get whatever Google's Amazon thing will be (what, we have all that advertising information on what people want/how much they spend/from who, and we can't undercut everyone and have it delivered direct/picked up from the GoogleStore?)
And their biggest competition. If 25M iphones can't be made/sold, thats' 25M SIII's that can be sold. Someone's probably run the numbers and figured out that it's now worth telling Apple to bog off.
I'd still like to know the value of the Apple shares she owns (or as that's a sliding number atm, the amount she holds).
Appears she worked for the company that handled Apple IP issues before, and received Apple stock. I think that shows a bias if true, so would like to know how much she holds.
Very true, but marketing will probably prefer 64bit chips over 32bit chips with LPAE as it just sounds more powerful to have the 64bit.
These go to 11.
In the world of busines...
Maybe.
Knowing how desperate they are is a great route to provide screens, with the proviso that they drop all this silly patent shenanigans. Then Samsung wins either way.
Though Sharp IS in a bad situation at this time, this could all be posturing for the Apple TV manufacturing. If Apple's reliant on Sharp to produce them (if they are real), then this would be the time to ask Apple for a great wodge of cash to prop them up, as Sharp too would know that Apple would hate to go back to Samsung and ask for anything.
He wasn't exactly fired as such. Just told to do a Starbucks run for everyone before the meeting, and if he's not back in an hour, don't come back. "Oh, and you have to use Apple Maps"
Thus the problem solved itself.
That'd have been amazing, but the cost? Bluergh.
At this point, how DOES Samsung get fairly compensated for potential lost sales, accusations in the press, named smeared? Guess monstrous counter litigation to warn off other potential trolls that if they try it, they will be destroyed. Scorched earth.
And go after the patent troll backers too. "sorry, the court has found the link goes back to MS/Apple, and thus they will pay the higher penalty"
As cynical as that sounds...
I do strongly believe this is the most likely outcome. MS have shown prior form on destorying a company just to get the assets. (Stinger phone with Orange being the most obvious example).
They do 'hate' those phones. How many times do we look back fondly on our other phone devices? Palm/G1/Nokia/Blackberries?
How many people 'look back fondly' to any Windows Phone?
They're hated with a passion, from both consumers, and the execs who've dealt with MS before.
All the talk is of Apple going thermonuclear against Android. Looks like the opposing sides are about to get serious. It might be verging on being anti-competitive but there must be some Samsung execs saying "screw 'em, they wanted a war? We'll give them a war. How long can we run at cost on tablets using the components we would have shipped to Apple to make phones/tablets so cheaply Apple will have no sales for the next year". Then we can get back to dealing with people who are fair.
The usual rules of business deals appear to have been thrown out of the window by Apple's aggression, now time to reap the seeds they've sown in the tech sector.
Ah, so it's the cross-sharing that was new? I always thought they were doing that anywhere, you just had to agree/turn it off in various places and the big merge was to do it in one location.
Which is fair, but how will splitting the privacy policies back into various areas HELP privacy? Doesn't putting them all in one place for Google products make it easier?
And even if split, do they not get how Google tracks everything anyway?
Very strange way to help people I'd think.
But if you change it just a little bit from 'death to America' to 'the guy in the Whitehouse is trying to kill America' you get to be on FoxNews every night and earn a fortune.
All this from something that probably started as a negotiation to bring the price of the chips down. Now it's full out war, and Apple are planning on leaving now (though that became obvious some time ago), time for Samsung to just dump them fully, re-use that capacity for cheaper/faster Android phones.
Which, I think, was done out of a fear of Playstations taking over the home computing area (at the time it was going to be a linux box). Now they've been caught wrong footed by phones, and are struggling to catch up that area.
MS has lost it's ability to turn on a dime it appears. Good/bad, BillG certainly was able to define a vision on where MS should be going, and get there quickly, throwing the whole company at the new market. Ballmer seems to be waiting...waiting...waiting...any second now...waiting... Oh, lighter mobile OS's are going to be all the rage? waiting...waiting...waiting...
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Why I loved the HTC Nexus One.
No stupid skins, just pure Android.
Fast
Zero bloatware
Updates
SD-Card
Easily unlockable bootloader
Awesome build quality
Replaceable batteries
Beautiful screen. . .
Reasons I dislike the new HTC phones
Terrible skins
slow (odd stutters, I think related to the skins/bloatware)
Slow updates (and CM appearing to have issues as the drivers/specs hard to get hold of)
Lack of SD-Cards (I get it, MS want's their cut, but what's the price? If it's 5bucks a device, I'm happy to pay that extra)
Locked bootloaders
Build quality falling. Pic up a HTC One S/X and on first glance it looks good, but tolerances appear to have slipped, just... not as good milling for the metal.
Non-replaceable batteries. . .
Screens are still good though, the contrast is great. The Camera was great quality too (though not THE most important item on a phone).. .
HTC, look, you're stepping away from why your phones were so beloved at the time. You're letting 'idiot marketing/execs' get in the way of/really/ listening to your customers who know what they like and WANT to use your phones, but are being put off by terrible decisions. Seriously, everything we liked about your phones in the first place, you've got rid of. Who's brainwave WAS this to get rid of everything that made your phones so good?
Totally. It's only a matter of time before the remnants of Nokia become a Microsoft Department, with the transfer of patents that was the only thing MS wanted from the start.
Would make a lot of sense for Apple to grab them, but there's just no way it'll happen with Elop prepping, and if Apple did eventually buy it, it'd be a husk of a company with the patents/IP already long gone.
Now, a partnership/agreement to cross license for 3 years perhaps, finally wipe out Android through sustained heavy lawsuit fire? That'd make sense. But Apple has learned too well, and after finishing off Android, will be waiting for the knife in the back from Microsoft.
No, it can't work, it's too messed up, and apart from the IP, there's not a lot worth buying.
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Wish I had mod points for this. I'm very interested, and it's surely in the public interest to know what's going on in the company they choose to invest in.
Alas, the threat of competition will cause them to hire more lawyers to fight than implement new tech at cheaper prices. Google will /really/ have it's work cut out fighting, as EVERYONE will throw EVERYTHING they have and the lobby industry is strong with the carriers as they'll do everything they can to stop things changing.
Of course,there's also a huge risk to Google's handset sales for any other network, why would AT&T/Sprint/Verizon sell Android phones if they can be switched over to Google's wireless(?) network? Note, I left TMobile out of that as I still suspect they'll eventually be the ones to sell out to Google, with the towers/backhaul/stores already in place, they'd make for the most logical 'Google store' experience to get everything you need, the phones, the plans, the GoogleTV hardware/subscriptions, the tablets, and whatever else Google sells next. Heck, even a 'physical dropbox' to get whatever Google's Amazon thing will be (what, we have all that advertising information on what people want/how much they spend/from who, and we can't undercut everyone and have it delivered direct/picked up from the GoogleStore?)
And their biggest competition. If 25M iphones can't be made/sold, thats' 25M SIII's that can be sold. Someone's probably run the numbers and figured out that it's now worth telling Apple to bog off.
It's possible they did, but they're also asking did Apple know as well...
I'd still like to know the value of the Apple shares she owns (or as that's a sliding number atm, the amount she holds). Appears she worked for the company that handled Apple IP issues before, and received Apple stock. I think that shows a bias if true, so would like to know how much she holds.
Very true, but marketing will probably prefer 64bit chips over 32bit chips with LPAE as it just sounds more powerful to have the 64bit. These go to 11.
With hardware designed by a Brit. (and now to be software too).
And since when does the guy with root access need a union to negotiate?
In the world of busines... Maybe. Knowing how desperate they are is a great route to provide screens, with the proviso that they drop all this silly patent shenanigans. Then Samsung wins either way. Though Sharp IS in a bad situation at this time, this could all be posturing for the Apple TV manufacturing. If Apple's reliant on Sharp to produce them (if they are real), then this would be the time to ask Apple for a great wodge of cash to prop them up, as Sharp too would know that Apple would hate to go back to Samsung and ask for anything.
They're losing the x86 battle, even with great chips, ARM might give them a huge boost, good for them to expand business.
He wasn't exactly fired as such. Just told to do a Starbucks run for everyone before the meeting, and if he's not back in an hour, don't come back. "Oh, and you have to use Apple Maps" Thus the problem solved itself.
That'd have been amazing, but the cost? Bluergh. At this point, how DOES Samsung get fairly compensated for potential lost sales, accusations in the press, named smeared? Guess monstrous counter litigation to warn off other potential trolls that if they try it, they will be destroyed. Scorched earth. And go after the patent troll backers too. "sorry, the court has found the link goes back to MS/Apple, and thus they will pay the higher penalty"
Very likely, but will they be in place for 2012 xmas shopping season? These things tend to drag on forever.
As cynical as that sounds... I do strongly believe this is the most likely outcome. MS have shown prior form on destorying a company just to get the assets. (Stinger phone with Orange being the most obvious example).
They do 'hate' those phones. How many times do we look back fondly on our other phone devices? Palm/G1/Nokia/Blackberries? How many people 'look back fondly' to any Windows Phone? They're hated with a passion, from both consumers, and the execs who've dealt with MS before.
Yes. Totally this. If it then later added on the cool hardware/camera things later? I'd then upgrade. Simple.
All the talk is of Apple going thermonuclear against Android. Looks like the opposing sides are about to get serious. It might be verging on being anti-competitive but there must be some Samsung execs saying "screw 'em, they wanted a war? We'll give them a war. How long can we run at cost on tablets using the components we would have shipped to Apple to make phones/tablets so cheaply Apple will have no sales for the next year". Then we can get back to dealing with people who are fair. The usual rules of business deals appear to have been thrown out of the window by Apple's aggression, now time to reap the seeds they've sown in the tech sector.
Ah, so it's the cross-sharing that was new? I always thought they were doing that anywhere, you just had to agree/turn it off in various places and the big merge was to do it in one location.
Which is fair, but how will splitting the privacy policies back into various areas HELP privacy? Doesn't putting them all in one place for Google products make it easier? And even if split, do they not get how Google tracks everything anyway? Very strange way to help people I'd think.
But if you change it just a little bit from 'death to America' to 'the guy in the Whitehouse is trying to kill America' you get to be on FoxNews every night and earn a fortune.
All this from something that probably started as a negotiation to bring the price of the chips down. Now it's full out war, and Apple are planning on leaving now (though that became obvious some time ago), time for Samsung to just dump them fully, re-use that capacity for cheaper/faster Android phones.
Which, I think, was done out of a fear of Playstations taking over the home computing area (at the time it was going to be a linux box). Now they've been caught wrong footed by phones, and are struggling to catch up that area. MS has lost it's ability to turn on a dime it appears. Good/bad, BillG certainly was able to define a vision on where MS should be going, and get there quickly, throwing the whole company at the new market. Ballmer seems to be waiting...waiting...waiting...any second now...waiting... Oh, lighter mobile OS's are going to be all the rage? waiting...waiting...waiting...
Why I loved the HTC Nexus One.
.
. . /really/ listening to your customers who know what they like and WANT to use your phones, but are being put off by terrible decisions. Seriously, everything we liked about your phones in the first place, you've got rid of. Who's brainwave WAS this to get rid of everything that made your phones so good?
No stupid skins, just pure Android.
Fast
Zero bloatware
Updates
SD-Card
Easily unlockable bootloader
Awesome build quality
Replaceable batteries
Beautiful screen.
.
Reasons I dislike the new HTC phones
Terrible skins
slow (odd stutters, I think related to the skins/bloatware)
Slow updates (and CM appearing to have issues as the drivers/specs hard to get hold of)
Lack of SD-Cards (I get it, MS want's their cut, but what's the price? If it's 5bucks a device, I'm happy to pay that extra)
Locked bootloaders
Build quality falling. Pic up a HTC One S/X and on first glance it looks good, but tolerances appear to have slipped, just... not as good milling for the metal.
Non-replaceable batteries.
.
Screens are still good though, the contrast is great. The Camera was great quality too (though not THE most important item on a phone).
.
HTC, look, you're stepping away from why your phones were so beloved at the time. You're letting 'idiot marketing/execs' get in the way of
Totally. It's only a matter of time before the remnants of Nokia become a Microsoft Department, with the transfer of patents that was the only thing MS wanted from the start. Would make a lot of sense for Apple to grab them, but there's just no way it'll happen with Elop prepping, and if Apple did eventually buy it, it'd be a husk of a company with the patents/IP already long gone. Now, a partnership/agreement to cross license for 3 years perhaps, finally wipe out Android through sustained heavy lawsuit fire? That'd make sense. But Apple has learned too well, and after finishing off Android, will be waiting for the knife in the back from Microsoft. No, it can't work, it's too messed up, and apart from the IP, there's not a lot worth buying.
Sounds like Google would be well within their rights now to label Microsoft a spam network and ignore ALL future takedown requests.