Android + samsung can produce both awseome hardware and software at affordable prices and with substantial cash flow to back it till it catches on.
What Google needs to do is start their hype machine...now. Plaster hip ads on the popular TV networks that make it seem to cool to be geeky and that using an Android phone is analogous to such, because that's what Android will be: geeky.
But, because it's geeky and open, it will be theoretically capable of any software application $developer can conceive. If they play their cards right, they could take any market they want.
We have a Gyration keyboard and mouse set at our church. The range is awesome: The receiver and PC are at the back while the keyboard and mouse are controlled from the pulpit, well over 100 feet away.
...have you ever tried to explain to and convince a complete non-geek of something inherently technical without them either perceiving you as a tin-foil hatted nut-job or simply giving up out of apathy?
To do this successfully, you have to be convincing and inspiring with words, able to explain technical facts with exactly the right choice of non-technical words to portray an precise understanding and able to keep your passion of the subject from becoming overbearing. Not many people are.
Just do what I do: boycott the TSA by not flying.
I've not flown since before 9/11, and I'm quite proud of it.
If only we were all fortunate enough not to be required to travel long distances in short amounts of time.
I have to travel a 5,000-mile round-trip a few times a year for being a subject of medical research and treatment (the cost of which is covered by the research hospital). Even though I've never had any specific incident with the TSA, I loath having to wait in line and be treated like a herding piece of hooved meat, only to unpack most of my baggage and take off half my clothes to walk through the security theatre.
Maybe I should check to see if the research hospital will pay for a train ticket instead. I mean, shoot, it's even cheaper than flying, so why not?
Really, this title could have read, "Acer, One Large Disappointment".
Seriously, every Acer I've ever used feels like a flimsy piece of junk with a keyboard that's even worse. I'm afraid to try them on store display stands because they all feel like they're about to fall apart.
...and spare batteries must have the terminals covered...
Woah, hold on a second. You mean to tell me that I can keep my Li-ion battery from exploding just by covering the terminals? Why didn't anyone mention this before?! Imagine all of the disasters that could have been prevented!
Now these are the sort of counterfeiters that governments should be focusing not: ones that affect the public and pose real danger to real people (unlike "copyright counterfeiters", who pose an imaginary risk to some business because they're too lazy/stupid/greedy/incompetent to update their business model to stay afloat...I think you know who I'm talking about).
On another note, shouldn't these guys be put in jail? Sure, a suit from IBM will put them out of business just as well, but shouldn't they also be thrown in the slammer for intentionally endangering the public?
Seriously, how do you lose a laptop? Do you take such little care of a device costing hundreds or thousands of dollars and containing sensitive business and personal data, that you would misplace it, lose it, leave it somewhere where it could be stolen, or carelessly shove it around?
Shoot, when I take my laptop anywhere out of my home [office], it's either in my sight or locked up in a safe (no, a Kensington lock doesn't cut it); and if it's being moved, it's carefully clenched in both of my hands and/or in its protective case.
However, what I really think is a non-issue in this story is the last gripe: software performance. What on Earth are they even talking about? Software applications don't perform as quickly on laptops? Maybe if your spending desktop-money on a laptop. A Core Duo with a couple GB of RAM and a decent GPU with dedicated memory will perform just as effectively as a comparable desktop.
I used my TX daily for about a month until it developed the dreaded screen squeal. It sounds something similar to a TV flyback transformer @ 15khz or so.
Sent to palm 3 times at my own expense; they claim there's nothing wrong with it.
Well, if "nothing wrong with it" means "this is normal behaviour", then they're right. I've been in Palm stores were every Palm PDA with a TFT screen buzzes and drives me to insanity (it seems that only Palms with TFT screens will emit this squeal; their STN-screened models do not). I don't understand how this is even acceptable.
Maybe they only want to sell these things to people over 40 (who apparently can't hear high-pitched sounds like this)
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What Google needs to do is start their hype machine...now. Plaster hip ads on the popular TV networks that make it seem to cool to be geeky and that using an Android phone is analogous to such, because that's what Android will be: geeky.
But, because it's geeky and open, it will be theoretically capable of any software application $developer can conceive. If they play their cards right, they could take any market they want.
Not so fast. Though you may still be right -- RIM may be too late.
So, your goal is to get light from solar energy...
;)
May I suggest a window?
We have a Gyration keyboard and mouse set at our church. The range is awesome: The receiver and PC are at the back while the keyboard and mouse are controlled from the pulpit, well over 100 feet away.
Ha! The Kindle has solid state memory!
Oh, wait...
...have you ever tried to explain to and convince a complete non-geek of something inherently technical without them either perceiving you as a tin-foil hatted nut-job or simply giving up out of apathy?
To do this successfully, you have to be convincing and inspiring with words, able to explain technical facts with exactly the right choice of non-technical words to portray an precise understanding and able to keep your passion of the subject from becoming overbearing. Not many people are.
Absolutely nothing!
I have to travel a 5,000-mile round-trip a few times a year for being a subject of medical research and treatment (the cost of which is covered by the research hospital). Even though I've never had any specific incident with the TSA, I loath having to wait in line and be treated like a herding piece of hooved meat, only to unpack most of my baggage and take off half my clothes to walk through the security theatre.
Maybe I should check to see if the research hospital will pay for a train ticket instead. I mean, shoot, it's even cheaper than flying, so why not?
Really, this title could have read, "Acer, One Large Disappointment". Seriously, every Acer I've ever used feels like a flimsy piece of junk with a keyboard that's even worse. I'm afraid to try them on store display stands because they all feel like they're about to fall apart.
Now these are the sort of counterfeiters that governments should be focusing not: ones that affect the public and pose real danger to real people (unlike "copyright counterfeiters", who pose an imaginary risk to some business because they're too lazy/stupid/greedy/incompetent to update their business model to stay afloat...I think you know who I'm talking about).
On another note, shouldn't these guys be put in jail? Sure, a suit from IBM will put them out of business just as well, but shouldn't they also be thrown in the slammer for intentionally endangering the public?
...users are dumb.
Seriously, how do you lose a laptop? Do you take such little care of a device costing hundreds or thousands of dollars and containing sensitive business and personal data, that you would misplace it, lose it, leave it somewhere where it could be stolen, or carelessly shove it around?
Shoot, when I take my laptop anywhere out of my home [office], it's either in my sight or locked up in a safe (no, a Kensington lock doesn't cut it); and if it's being moved, it's carefully clenched in both of my hands and/or in its protective case.
However, what I really think is a non-issue in this story is the last gripe: software performance. What on Earth are they even talking about? Software applications don't perform as quickly on laptops? Maybe if your spending desktop-money on a laptop. A Core Duo with a couple GB of RAM and a decent GPU with dedicated memory will perform just as effectively as a comparable desktop.
...till law enforcement finds out
Maybe they only want to sell these things to people over 40 (who apparently can't hear high-pitched sounds like this)
What? You mean things actually do happen in Saskatchewan?
- a Manitoban
...that depends on whether or not we can get hard drives in the first place
Did anyone actually look at the thing? Yeah, it's got a ways to go before it's a "practical, four-door family car".