With a pretty high degree of certainty I can say that you did not have a substantial sales staff. Even in the very small companies where I have worked, sales staff drives the cost of support through the roof. Easily the least computer literate group on the planet.
The title and summary both suggest this is over. I was under the impression that the request to the DoJ had just begun. That is it should read, "is seeking" not "sought"?
Back in the days of the dotcom bubble I worked for a company that sent a LOT of email (read that as you will). Hotmail was the only major email service that never complained or blocked our servers. I don't know when MS bought them but I doubt they were so lackadaisical just because of the purchase.
My point was that while you claim christians are being trampled on it seems to me, at least in the US, it is the christians doing the trampling. Just because you have decided that evangelicals are less christian and your flavor is more christian, the trampling remains.
I always find it deeply amusing when bullies play the victim card.
- school prayer - one nation, under god - in god we trust - commandments in the courts - opening prayer in congress - christmas and easter notional holidays
There is almost no chance they won't be found in violation though. There is also almost no chance that it won't be found to be willful. The big question is how much it is worth. The patent claim is for a very small piece of code in a very large code base. Oracle proposes that means they should get royalties from all of android, Google argues that it shouldn't. If the jury sides with Oracle the numbers could get big, really big.
I think Amazon put to rest any idea that Andriod can't be made different enough. Not that it was all that compelling of an argument to begin with. HTC and Samsung had been skinning Andriod, pretty much, since day one.
The question then becomes how deep in to the source do you have to go to get enough differentiation. There seems little question that Nokia had more developers familiar with linux than windows so it probably came down to familiarity on Elop's part.
The thing that still confuses me about the decision though is that as far as I know WP7 still doesn't support non romance languages. For a company like motoroloa that is fine but for a true multinational like Nokia that should have been a Lemmon-esque deal breaker.
Google is shooting itself in the foot," said the person familiar with Motorola's plans, citing what he sees as concerns about Android fragmentation, product differentiation, and issues related to Google's support for its partners..
Even better than that is the idea that they are having issues with both differentiation AND fragmentation. It seems to me you can't really have one without the other.
Doubt this is the case. If it were, chrome would have fallen to the same exploit.
Unless this was patched in WebKit and Apple still hasn't pushed the update to end users. Which I think would actually be worse than not knowing the exploit existed at all.
Funny, you think people are going after the $2k mac but don't care about the $20k cash that google offered to target chrome?
So $15k + Mac has more value than $20k + PC? I mean, I know the waiting list for macs is nearly 20 years long now and they are giving PCs away with the purchase of soup but....
They get $1B USD from one of the most powerful corporations in the world. A company that is known for pulling 180s and turning around and making billions from it. A company that has a device in almost every house in the western world and a huge media network with millions of subscribers. Now they want to expand to a market with some very powerful offerings.
And this is the time to sell their stock? You're thinking emotionally not logically sir.
If their offerings were so "powerful" and their value proposition so persuasive then they wouldn't have needed to pay people to use their OS. Just sayin'.
I'm convinced that copy/paste wasn't included as a deliberate attempt to get more media mileage for WinPho7. When Apple didn't have that feature the press would often use that as an excuse to to write a tepid article/blog/news story about that glaring deficiency. When that not-so-secret Apple fanboy wrote that article it would be about three hundred words glowing words about how amazing the platform was with a scant 40 words dedicated to the criticism that prompted the article. Microsoft (imho) obviously saw the extra press, and was hoping that similar press would result.
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To lazy to look that up... What does that mean?
With a pretty high degree of certainty I can say that you did not have a substantial sales staff. Even in the very small companies where I have worked, sales staff drives the cost of support through the roof. Easily the least computer literate group on the planet.
The title and summary both suggest this is over. I was under the impression that the request to the DoJ had just begun. That is it should read, "is seeking" not "sought"?
Back in the days of the dotcom bubble I worked for a company that sent a LOT of email (read that as you will). Hotmail was the only major email service that never complained or blocked our servers. I don't know when MS bought them but I doubt they were so lackadaisical just because of the purchase.
My point was that while you claim christians are being trampled on it seems to me, at least in the US, it is the christians doing the trampling. Just because you have decided that evangelicals are less christian and your flavor is more christian, the trampling remains.
Even though it sounded like you were disagreeing with "Nobody likes microsft", what you said is 100% consistent. Indifference != like.
Huh? You think the pope isn't a creationist?
I always find it deeply amusing when bullies play the victim card.
- school prayer
- one nation, under god
- in god we trust
- commandments in the courts
- opening prayer in congress
- christmas and easter notional holidays
Well, they don't have this one at least. Something you may wish to consider if you ever drop your absolutist view of the world.
wipe your disk and reinstall anything but Windows.
FTFY
How is it possible, in this day and age, for no one in the audience to have had a video camera running :(
Haven't seen this in, for what feels like, forever. Oddly, I think it was funnier this time, especially the curtsy for the valediction.
There is almost no chance they won't be found in violation though. There is also almost no chance that it won't be found to be willful. The big question is how much it is worth. The patent claim is for a very small piece of code in a very large code base. Oracle proposes that means they should get royalties from all of android, Google argues that it shouldn't. If the jury sides with Oracle the numbers could get big, really big.
fitting really
Only if it is using a Qualcom SoC
I think Amazon put to rest any idea that Andriod can't be made different enough. Not that it was all that compelling of an argument to begin with. HTC and Samsung had been skinning Andriod, pretty much, since day one.
The question then becomes how deep in to the source do you have to go to get enough differentiation. There seems little question that Nokia had more developers familiar with linux than windows so it probably came down to familiarity on Elop's part.
The thing that still confuses me about the decision though is that as far as I know WP7 still doesn't support non romance languages. For a company like motoroloa that is fine but for a true multinational like Nokia that should have been a Lemmon-esque deal breaker.
Google is shooting itself in the foot," said the person familiar with Motorola's plans, citing what he sees as concerns about Android fragmentation, product differentiation, and issues related to Google's support for its partners..
Even better than that is the idea that they are having issues with both differentiation AND fragmentation. It seems to me you can't really have one without the other.
A quick google search for '"google sues" patent' returns less than 50k result which pretty much means it hasn't happened. First link was this, kind of interesting:
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20091110/0843176877.shtml
No, the hack that was used was NOT patched in the 5.0.4 update.
I am not sure if you are deriving some other meaning from what I said, but no one showing up to try it does indeed mean it wasn't challenged.
Doubt this is the case. If it were, chrome would have fallen to the same exploit.
Unless this was patched in WebKit and Apple still hasn't pushed the update to end users. Which I think would actually be worse than not knowing the exploit existed at all.
Funny, you think people are going after the $2k mac but don't care about the $20k cash that google offered to target chrome?
So $15k + Mac has more value than $20k + PC? I mean, I know the waiting list for macs is nearly 20 years long now and they are giving PCs away with the purchase of soup but....
They get $1B USD from one of the most powerful corporations in the world. A company that is known for pulling 180s and turning around and making billions from it. A company that has a device in almost every house in the western world and a huge media network with millions of subscribers. Now they want to expand to a market with some very powerful offerings.
And this is the time to sell their stock? You're thinking emotionally not logically sir.
If their offerings were so "powerful" and their value proposition so persuasive then they wouldn't have needed to pay people to use their OS. Just sayin'.
Occam :(
I'm convinced that copy/paste wasn't included as a deliberate attempt to get more media mileage for WinPho7. When Apple didn't have that feature the press would often use that as an excuse to to write a tepid article/blog/news story about that glaring deficiency. When that not-so-secret Apple fanboy wrote that article it would be about three hundred words glowing words about how amazing the platform was with a scant 40 words dedicated to the criticism that prompted the article. Microsoft (imho) obviously saw the extra press, and was hoping that similar press would result.
Occom and I find this unlikely.
What exactly is your issue with Android?