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    Harley King
    Sep 25 05:53 AM
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    Year to Date Performance of Dow 30 Members [view article]
    General Motors are still included in the list, This only proves that people are still interested in different cars. Which is nowadays, can be easily search in the internet if you want to buy whether it is new or used car just like in www.zibe.com
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    Geddy
    Sep 24 09:32 PM
    Sprint-Clearwire Deal Expected to Close in Q4 [view article]
    I work for a competitor so it's all in jest. Reply
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    dcc2013
    Sep 24 10:54 AM
    Sprint-Clearwire Deal Expected to Close in Q4 [view article]
    Geddy: I 've seen your postings on other blogs -- what's the basis for your obsessive anti-clearwire comments? Reply
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    mollytjm
    Sep 24 10:08 AM
    The Google Phone: Blockbuster or Bust? [view article]
    i agree about Google and data. i worry about that. Speaking of Buffett...Apple has a moat and that moat is not just that it's financially secure and debt free or that it's tech support is wonderful...the moat is reputation... how will Google do tech support? how much of who you are will it pass on to 'partners'? where is the physical retail space that will give exclusive support to you and your phone and connect you to other top rated tech products?
    i just don't see it happening.     Reply
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    JosephKr
    Sep 24 12:46 AM
    The Google Phone: Blockbuster or Bust? [view article]
    Just a couple of things:

    1) Google touts open platform for all and then ties itself to an exclusive with fairly one tenth the coverage of its major competitor (in this case Apple), not counting unknown deals for other countries (where Apple is already well-established).

    2) Apple has already sold 5 million iphones in Q3 and is well on track to exceed this in Q4, regardless of any perceived economic downturn whether domestically or abroad.

    3) The current market instability will hopefully get resolved once Congress gets off its collective tuchuss and gives Messrs Paulsen and Bernanke what they need to restore investor confidence (and thanks to Mr. Buffett for his move today). at which point everyone who bought Apple between $120 and $130 is gonna be ecstatic with the results when the stock goes right back to $180 to $190 where it rightfully belongs (and beyond).     Reply
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    Hayweed
    Sep 23 05:43 PM
    The Google Phone: Blockbuster or Bust? [view article]
    The Gphone is 3g but Tmobile only has 3G in 27 cities. Not a lot of coverage. I went in a tmobile store today and the girl I spoke with did not even know about the phone. One guy did but he told me that they did not have a demo and you could only preorder it.

    Gary Krakow loves the gPhone but he tends to hate the iPhone. Heck he even thinks that the new Storm is faster than the iPhone. I think this is all just chatter. Apple has had a year and a quarter to refine their phone which is why it is Apple phone software 2.1. All the others are 1.0 phones. Who wants to beta test the Gphone or the Storm when the Apple phone has been revised with a second model and about 6 software updates. Not me. Sticking with the original iPhone for now.     Reply
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    Kris23
    Sep 23 03:00 PM
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    The Google Phone: Blockbuster or Bust? [view article]
    I don't think there trying to directly compete with the iPhone either, although consumers will probably put it in that space. It seems to me like Google is just looking for more ways to infiltrate every way people use the internet-ad exposure. It was only a matter of time before they moved to takeover some sort of mobile channel. Reply
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    User 58276
    Sep 23 02:51 PM
    The Google Phone: Blockbuster or Bust? [view article]
    I really don't think about whether or not they are enhancing Google's bottom line when they buy a product. I am an Apple stockholder myself, but for consumers I have to believe having an open source alternative is a good thing (although not so good for Apple).

    For years Apple became an "also present" in computer sales because of their insistence upon total control of everything to do with their product. Meanwhile Microsoft and the pc prospered in a market in which anyone could sell everything.

    I hope Apple is not about to lock themselves out again from a market in which they have an early lead.     Reply
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    g_skorich
    Sep 23 02:32 PM
    The Google Phone: Blockbuster or Bust? [view article]
    how is it beneficial to me as a consumer to buy a product that will enhance googles bottom line if i do not own the stock. for all the hype about this phone , all i can see is that it isn't better than what is available now. for all the AAPL haters out there, I noticed one thing in all the articles I have read. They forget to mention how much a two year contract costs. I remember when the iphone was about to be released and all the hub bub about the cost. Reply
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    Stone Fox
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    Sep 23 02:32 PM
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    Dogs of the Dow in the Dumpster [view article]
    Make that Boeing Reply
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    Stone Fox
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    Sep 23 02:31 PM
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    Dogs of the Dow in the Dumpster [view article]
    Its unreal that Boing now has a yield of 12%. Have you done any work on adjusting the stocks on a monthly basis versus yearly? It seems ideal to drop IBM and add BA at this point. Reply
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    .crazylegs..
    Sep 23 01:47 PM
    The Google Phone: Blockbuster or Bust? [view article]
    Android = Linux. this will be more popular with tech geeks. Google has no ambition of being the windows of mobile phones. they just want you to use google apps and search on your phone so they can deliver ads to every phone platform, whether it be iphone, blackberry, windows mobile, symbian, etc Reply
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    KenC
    Sep 23 01:46 PM
    The Google Phone: Blockbuster or Bust? [view article]
    Google is self-serving. Its desire for openness is also in line with its desire to keep its search engine, and how it makes money, at the top of the heap. If Windows Mobile were to win in the mobile device market, then Windows could lock out Google from the next great platform.

    You wrote, "Google is positioning itself against Apple, which has bet on the iPhone's "locked" handset model -- available only through AT&T (T). In contrast, Google has championed an "open" model, not only by basing Android on open-source technology, but also in its successful effort to open up the 700Mhz wireless spectrum auctioned off by the F.C.C."

    This is so wrong. Google is aligning with Apple in a loose WebKit alliance supporting webstandards, against MS and proprietary ones. You do realize that Android and Chrome are built on WebKit. Adobe Air is also built on WebKit. Nokia's S60 is also built on WebKit. Safari is also built on WebKit. Guess who makes WebKit?

    Yep, you guessed it, Apple. Apple makes the rendering engine, powering all of those browsers and browser-based Apps. Apple released WebKit back to the open-source community.     Reply
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    jmmx
    Sep 23 01:27 PM
    The Google Phone: Blockbuster or Bust? [view article]
    The problem with Google is that a lot of people (I for one) do not feel comfortable with the amount of data that they accumulate on the users. I really have no faith in my personal privacy with them.

    One may argue that Apple also (of necessity) gets data about you. The difference here, however, is that
    1- Google has a tradition of policies that make me leery of them, and
    2- In the end, apple is a hardware/software company and not particularly interested in making money off your data (especially if it would jeopardize their core biz by bad publicity). Google, on the other hand, LIVES by data - your personal data. OH yes - I do use google for search, but never will I get a gmail account.

    The second issue is this - Google gets its money back from advertising. Are people really going to want a phone that is so tied in to advertising? I am not sure to what extent it will be evident, but it could quickly become a sore point.Anything that diminishes the user experience is not going to fly!

    (disclosure: long apple)
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    jack dee
    Sep 23 12:55 PM
    The Google Phone: Blockbuster or Bust? [view article]


    Hopefully the phone companies will be smart enought to understand that they will be commodities if they allow GOOG to gain a foothold.

    If Google gets is phone OS running a lot of phones where will that leave NOK Iphone ATT Verizon?
    Perhaps it will leave them selling airtime and tech only. Will brands grossly debased and hidden underneath a goog OS and range of "Skins". With goog pulling all the profit from ads, and the phone companies left scratching thier heads and wondering how they can compete with free phone calls for viewing and clicking through. Perhaps oops I will stop there, I just thought of a new model for phone companies.....


    Keeping the interface is core to keeping customers , otherwise you are just selling access.

    In a nutshell Goog wants wants to be the Windows of phones.     Reply
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