The only possible thing I can see, mainstream, is some type of medical monitoring through sensors on the skin or swallowed pills.
Jesus Christ, why can't you people just pay for a proper free health service, rather than expect everyone to self-diagnose all the time because you vcan't afford to visit a doctor?
I don't want my phone running out of battery while it's monitoring my unnecessary drug usage.
"If Blackberry can rebound and sell an inexpensive, desirable smartphone in China, they could totally recover."
How will BB compete with the cheap Android phones that are already in China -- made by Chinese companies?
They will presumably compete in the same way that expensive iPhones or Samsung Galaxy's do, i.e. by appealing to the ever-growing well off middle class.
In the UK most people with (smart)phones are on 2 year contracts, so they get a new phone every 2 years. It's easier (and therefore more popular) to pay a bit more each month for a package with unlimited calls/texts/data and a free phone rather than ever actually buying a phone from a shop.
The only teen girl that I EVER saw with a Blackberry was an actress I sat by on a plane.
You should come to the UK, where Blackberrys are pretty much the top choice for teenagers. That's because texting is a really big thing here, and Blackberrys are perfect texting machines. As a parent, I'm also quite glad of the relative robustness of Blackberrys: the small screen obviously helps here.
iPhones and high end Andoird phones are for older teenagers with jobs (or indulgent parents). 40 quid a month for an iPhone contract is as much pocket money as most normal 12 year olds would get.
Android has a huge lead in worldwide smartphone sales, but in a lot of richer countries, the iPhone has a pretty good share of the market. And Apple's market share is greatest in the US, where it is not far off Android's.
So it is not all that surprising that a US slashdot poster would think that the iPhone was top of the heap.
(I am ignoring Chinese manufacturers because, as my economics prof once said, nobody understands China.)
OK then, I'll ignore Samsung because Korea is just the same as China (if you're going to argue from nonsensical stereotypes of the Nineteenth Century).
Seriously, China is the world's second biggest economy, and is still growing at a far faster rate than the US or anyone else. You can't just ignore it. And Huawei is one of the largest telecoms equipment manufacturers in the world.
Microsoft will not win this time. If they continue to waste money on their phones, they will die an ignominious death. They need to move on to bigger and better things, like the massive robotic invasion that's not even ten years away.
Are you saying Microsoft will be our last, best hope against the tyranny of the alien machine overlords?
So your argument is that despite battery-hogging things like Wi-Fi and giant screens, modern smartphones all last 3 days with constant use except BBs? Really? Newsflash: They don't. "My new BB's battery lasts 1 day" isn't a reason to switch to some other phone that also has 1 day battery life.
No, you ask any Apple user, their phone lasts several days even if it's constantly in use streaming video/games. It must be true, I keep reading it on the internet.
All the people I know with iPhones who have to recharge them each night are doing something wrong. It's probably the way they're holding it.
dont forget 15 years ago there was no google. If google can do it, anyone can do it.
Google could only do it because they had already accumulated a ton of money through advertising revenue, and so could.can afford to chuck relatively large sums of money at problems without worrying about it bankrupting them.
I love your business plan: Make everything free and spend millions on it with no returns. You should set up a Kickstarter page immediately. I know you'll do well!
Isn't that exactly what Google did with Android? And now they rule the game?
It looks as if his business skills are more aligned with reality than yours.
For a company like Google a few millions is petty cash. Looking at their latest accounts, they've got almost $50 billion in cash and short term investments. Even if they flushed a billion dollars down the toilet it would only be 2% of their cash.
In a capitalist system, people who start off with a lot of money are always going to have an advantage moving into new markets.
Be ready to spend a few millions without return of investment.
Better still, put it on kickstarter and get a bunch of gullible idiots to pay you to "develop" it while you take a holiday in the Carribean for a few years.
Golf is a poor example to choose, since at least it is a sport that most of its followers actually play themselves (unlike American football, Formula One racing, athletics or whatever) and so derive some benefit of being outside and walking around for a couple of hours.
In what way are they being "fooled out of hundreds of millions of dollars a year"? No one thinks they are going to become millionaires like Tiger Woods just by watching him play golf. It's just something fun to do, like watching a movie or having a few gin and tonics.
Why do I get the impression that, because this isn't some Linux programmer that's being interviewed, we're not all taking this quite as seriously as usual?
Is it true that your organisation is a front to attract the mystically endowed and drain them of their powers to feed the unholy appetites of a cabal of dark theurgists and further their quest to challenge the illuminati for control of the mortal world, leading ultimately to human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together, and mass hysteria?
According to the self-diagnosed What-Used-To-Be-Called-Aspergers-Syndrome fanboys on slashdot, it isn't an illness, it's just an evolutionary step towards the fucking singularity.
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The only possible thing I can see, mainstream, is some type of medical monitoring through sensors on the skin or swallowed pills.
Jesus Christ, why can't you people just pay for a proper free health service, rather than expect everyone to self-diagnose all the time because you vcan't afford to visit a doctor?
I don't want my phone running out of battery while it's monitoring my unnecessary drug usage.
"If Blackberry can rebound and sell an inexpensive, desirable smartphone in China, they could totally recover."
How will BB compete with the cheap Android phones that are already in China -- made by Chinese companies?
They will presumably compete in the same way that expensive iPhones or Samsung Galaxy's do, i.e. by appealing to the ever-growing well off middle class.
Now virtually everyone on the planet has two smart phones
Really? I only know a few, and that's because their work insists on giving them another phone rather than just using their own.
In the UK most people with (smart)phones are on 2 year contracts, so they get a new phone every 2 years. It's easier (and therefore more popular) to pay a bit more each month for a package with unlimited calls/texts/data and a free phone rather than ever actually buying a phone from a shop.
Let's face it foo-phones are going to have to be AI technology, probably sent back in time to destroy our future resistance leaders.
an "old-school everyone has desktops physically locked to their desks and is on a wired LAN" environment.
i.e. 95% of businesses that aren't small start up software firms.
Google Glasses are the sort of thing that look good in science fiction, but in reality make you look like a twat (see bluetooth headsets).
The only teen girl that I EVER saw with a Blackberry was an actress I sat by on a plane.
You should come to the UK, where Blackberrys are pretty much the top choice for teenagers. That's because texting is a really big thing here, and Blackberrys are perfect texting machines. As a parent, I'm also quite glad of the relative robustness of Blackberrys: the small screen obviously helps here.
iPhones and high end Andoird phones are for older teenagers with jobs (or indulgent parents). 40 quid a month for an iPhone contract is as much pocket money as most normal 12 year olds would get.
So it is not all that surprising that a US slashdot poster would think that the iPhone was top of the heap.
Then Google makes money whenever people with crappy phones buy apps or view ads.
That would be a great strategy except that people with crappy phones do very lithe of either.
A lot of people with "crappy" (i.e. cheap) phones are kids. They certainly do view ads, and they certainly do buy apps whenever they can.
(I am ignoring Chinese manufacturers because, as my economics prof once said, nobody understands China.)
OK then, I'll ignore Samsung because Korea is just the same as China (if you're going to argue from nonsensical stereotypes of the Nineteenth Century).
Seriously, China is the world's second biggest economy, and is still growing at a far faster rate than the US or anyone else. You can't just ignore it. And Huawei is one of the largest telecoms equipment manufacturers in the world.
Microsoft will not win this time. If they continue to waste money on their phones, they will die an ignominious death. They need to move on to bigger and better things, like the massive robotic invasion that's not even ten years away.
Are you saying Microsoft will be our last, best hope against the tyranny of the alien machine overlords?
God help us all.
So your argument is that despite battery-hogging things like Wi-Fi and giant screens, modern smartphones all last 3 days with constant use except BBs? Really? Newsflash: They don't. "My new BB's battery lasts 1 day" isn't a reason to switch to some other phone that also has 1 day battery life.
No, you ask any Apple user, their phone lasts several days even if it's constantly in use streaming video/games. It must be true, I keep reading it on the internet.
All the people I know with iPhones who have to recharge them each night are doing something wrong. It's probably the way they're holding it.
2.5 inches isn't much by today's standards.
It's not the size that matters, it's how you use it.
I can get two solid days of heavy use on my iPhone 4. If I'm not using apps, I can get 3 days out of it.
So how come no one else I know can get more than a day?
Let me guess, they're using their iPhones wrong?
dont forget 15 years ago there was no google. If google can do it, anyone can do it.
Google could only do it because they had already accumulated a ton of money through advertising revenue, and so could.can afford to chuck relatively large sums of money at problems without worrying about it bankrupting them.
Google weren't a mobile phone start up company.
I love your business plan: Make everything free and spend millions on it with no returns. You should set up a Kickstarter page immediately. I know you'll do well!
Isn't that exactly what Google did with Android? And now they rule the game?
It looks as if his business skills are more aligned with reality than yours.
For a company like Google a few millions is petty cash. Looking at their latest accounts, they've got almost $50 billion in cash and short term investments. Even if they flushed a billion dollars down the toilet it would only be 2% of their cash.
In a capitalist system, people who start off with a lot of money are always going to have an advantage moving into new markets.
Be ready to spend a few millions without return of investment.
Better still, put it on kickstarter and get a bunch of gullible idiots to pay you to "develop" it while you take a holiday in the Carribean for a few years.
Oops.
Does Richard Dawkins's sophistry not bring him into the same class as the other charlatans the JR foundation seeks to uncloak?
I can answer that on behalf of Mr Randi: no, you fucking moron.
In what way are they being "fooled out of hundreds of millions of dollars a year"? No one thinks they are going to become millionaires like Tiger Woods just by watching him play golf. It's just something fun to do, like watching a movie or having a few gin and tonics.
Most soft science papers are confident to 95%, implying that on average the results of 1 out of 20 scientific papers arose due to chance
As opposed to most hard science papers which are confident to 100%?
tone of voice is everything
I hear this criticism of Richard Dawkins and others from US Christians all the time. "Why is he so mean?
You ought to try reading Voltaire or Swift sometime. Intelligent people have never treated fools and liars with respect.
Why do I get the impression that, because this isn't some Linux programmer that's being interviewed, we're not all taking this quite as seriously as usual?
Is it true that your organisation is a front to attract the mystically endowed and drain them of their powers to feed the unholy appetites of a cabal of dark theurgists and further their quest to challenge the illuminati for control of the mortal world, leading ultimately to human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together, and mass hysteria?
Can't wait for the answer to that one.
people who think Autism is not an illness
According to the self-diagnosed What-Used-To-Be-Called-Aspergers-Syndrome fanboys on slashdot, it isn't an illness, it's just an evolutionary step towards the fucking singularity.