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Motorola's Droid Comes in Peace - For Now

Reviewers keep focusing on the wrong issues and features. Without a doubt, Apple will have a new brighter screen in an upcoming iteration of the iPhone, and a faster processor, and more memory, and new features... and this will all happen sooner rather than later. These are all hardware features that are a non-issue for the iPhone today as no one is complaining about the 3Gs' processor speed or screen resolution - they are fantastic! And the laws of the universe dictate that hardware devices will improve over time as there are incremental advancements. The fact that one device is VERY SLIGHTLY better in these areas does not make the alternative device any less effective! The real issue is that no one has been able to duplicate the broad and powerful ecosystem of the iPhone, iTunes, iPod, Mac, Apple TV (yes it too will continue to improve and will be able to make huge leaps from its current iteration). This is what makes the iPhone superior and more successful - it gives you the most effective way to store, access and manage your digital life with incredible ease, functionality and usability. Apple has a clear and distinct competitive advantage, regardless of the hardware and software in these new phones.

Research In Motion: Still the Best Positioned Smartphones Play

Complete nonsense. In the long view, RIM is in trouble. It can not compete effectively as it is not a comprehensive platform phone - it is a one trick pony. Nowhere near "the best" positioned.

Zune HD: Still Not an iPod Killer

When you say "Hopes were high when Microsoft (MSFT) introduced the Zune in 2006", exactly whose hopes are you talking about? No one, and I mean no one I know had high hopes! In fact, they had NO hope. Its freaking MSFT! They suck and everyone knows it. As does their lame new ZUNE HD, which by the way, isn't really HD but they called it that anyway - it is MSFT afterall. Don't walk away from this product, RUN!

Two Lessons from iPhone Piracy

BTW - the fact that this "article" states 50 - 90% substantiates the fact that someone is just pulling numbers out of their arse.

Two Lessons from iPhone Piracy

I'm sorry but what is the verifiable substantiation for such an outrageous claim? This is simply horrible reporting without reliable substantiation both on the stats and the technical issues. Bad bad bad "journalism".

Why Android Is Gaining Ground on Apple

What a crock, and also a worthless "article". Only a fool would claim that Apple is being anti-competitive by tying iTunes to its own products. First, other devices CAN access iTunes data as has been repeated over and over again, just not as seamlessly as you can with Apple's own products. Further, why in the world would Apple have to / need to / or be required to share their intellectual property beyond their own products! Its a platform and ecosystem they invented, developed and marketed to the tune of MILLIONS and MILLIONS of dollars. What total nonsense that they should then make it easy for competitors to "borrow or steal" it! Others keep trying to "steal" Apples functionality / access instead of creating their own products and services from scratch, and then they whine about it just like you're doing when they can't. Let these other companies invest their own millions in developing competing products.

doubleTwist: An Amazon Powered Alternative to Apple's iTunes

I'm sorry but what is the statement "it’s quickly turning into a very appealing solution" based on? Sounds like total BS. First, its only available on the mac platform and mac users are using iTunes and are not about to switch. Secondly, despite all the BS out there, you can easily move your music from iTunes to non-iPod devices already. And as you state, it doesn't have apps, playlists, genius, movies, or video. So again, it will be successful why? You make me LOL...

Adobe Releases Full Flash to Everyone but Apple

Flash is a disaster for slow internet connections like 2G and even 3G. It will hog bandwidth, slow you way down, and slow everyone else on the mobile net as it sucks the air out of the room!

Google Injects Ads and User-Generated Content Into iPhone Maps

Perhaps this example is why Apple is rejecting some apps from Google. Its not a google phone! Its an Apple handheld computer and Apple should be able to have some control over the user experience, especially when it subverts / interferes / degrades the main functions and ease-of-use that are so critical to the iPhones success. The FCC should be staying out of this scrum.

While eBay Burned, Whitman Fiddled

And now we find out that Meg never even registered to vote until she was in her mid 40's - and she wants to run for governor of California? You've got to be kidding Meg! Maybe there's a job for you as Glen Beck's sidekick. Or as Carly Fiorina's makeup artist.

RIM Faces Growing Competition from Apple and Palm

Of course its a competition! Its called business - taking market share away from your competitors. Go Apple!


On Sep 27 01:18 PM Techtrader10 wrote:

> The Apple "faithful" seem to need to make it a competition between
> their iPhone vs. whatever other product. In reality, RIMM's products
> are still selling well, they have expanded into the consumer market
> (read that the iPhone market) and I feel the lack of growth is more
> a result of a slow economy and a ten percent unemployment rate vs.
> a switch to a competitor. Sorry TechCrunch, I'm just not convinced
> your arument is valid. I feel the economy is finally catching up
> to the smart phone market. And I feel we will be seeing the same
> thing happening to the rest of this niche market.

RIM Faces Growing Competition from Apple and Palm

So that makes you the brightest bulbs in the room?


On Sep 27 08:00 AM lucky lenny wrote:

> Tech, where I work, over 100 of us have Blackberrys. There's absolutely
> no way we're going iphone or palmpre. So unless u can point to Fortune
> 500 companies making the switch, i'm not sure your points hold up.

Questions Surround Apple's Google Voice Stance

This is such nonsense! And a ridiculous distraction. Even if Apple did reject the app, that doesn't mean that Google can't resubmit with revisions. Further, Apple has every right to reject apps that duplicate functionality or subvert the standard iPhone interface. Users can still access Google Voice on the iPhone through the web browser so in fact users CAN use Google Voice with the iPhone. The FCC should stay out of this.

Reading Palm: Pre Sales and the Secondary Offering

The author's comment below is very misleading and grossly inaccurate:
"Palm answered investors' concerns about growth and unit shipments for the Pre. Palm said that they shipped about 832,000 as of this quarter..."

Reading through the transcripts Palm stated no such thing. They would not break out Pre numbers. That number they gave was in fact for their FULL product line which includes the Treo and Centro phones which still have a substantial sales and distribution base with MULTIPLE carriers. While the overall NET increase from PREVIOUS quarters probably included mostly Pre phones, the estimates of 400-500,000 Pres sold can most certainly be accurate. And for certain, all 845k units were not Pres.

Reading Palm: Pre Sales and the Secondary Offering

Palm will at best just continue bumping along taking share from others, but not Apple. Its customer satisfaction levels are not that high, and they are not a platform play like Apple (closely integrated across the desktop, cloud and handheld by the iTunes store and MobileME, and the more sophisticated and powerful OS X).