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Smartphones: The Mobile Industry Is About to Get 'Blown Apart'

These people who rant openness, but have little evidence that openness -
1. Is a good business philosophy, in terms of
standards discipline,
innovation once, innovations many times,
business profitability, staying power long term.
Face it. Openness causes proliferation of inconsequential products, a competitive quagmire, no profits to support product innovation, and short term business failure.
As a consumer, I'll be danged if I want that environment. Take this word apart and what it means is that anybody can take your product apart and modify it and screw it up, demand that you repair it and vilify your name - - just because he bought it.
I'll bet that the author of this article can't even define what openness means.

Under The Radar News - Wednesday

"Lawmakers and analysts assert the program is a failure, and has not eased the foreclosure crisis."

Correction:
Democratic "Lawmakers" and left wing Democratic "analysts" assert - - - - - - - -.

Just how long did these ###### people wait before they wined and bellowed? A week? 10 days?

They want the government to void their mortgage contracts because they can no longer find some better fool mortgage company to refinance their property. That's right, get the government, meaning me, to subsidize foolhardy investments.

Smart Phone Wars: iPhone vs. Blackberry vs. ...Android?

For what its worth, the Nokia CEO recently was quoted saying "I am scared to death of the iPhone". (late Jan '08).

Regarding Android. as anybody contemplated how good Android will be in emulating what OSX and a real browser does? And how fast? Like, how good is the rendering of text to any point size you want? And, what good is Android on a tiny screen, particularly if you can't read it anyway? What is Android's equivalent of Quartz? (Mac people will understand what Quartz does for precision graphics)

Google's Android Will Lead to New Class of Mobile Internet Devices

to MrMarket
There are so many IFS in this scenereo - - all they have to do is get the spectrum, all they have to do is provide free internet, all they have to do is get everybody to adopt Android, all they have to do is get PC users to use a phone exclusively, all they have to do is get the whole world to enter connectivity through Google, all they have to do is get every corporation to funnel their ads through Google Android, - - all they have to do is get AT&T, Microsoft, Apple, - - - to sit around and watch them take over the internet. But you are right that the government might also take a dim view of all of this. Ditto for foreign governments. And let us not forget that all of this doesn't come free. And let us not forget that Mother Lode is really money from other corporations, spent on advertising. And if this money spent on advertising doesn't yield results it will dry up in an eye blink. Just remember, nobody likes a monopoly including the government. In short, there are a multitude of reasons why this will never fly. And free internet connectivity will never yield the dream they envision for the simple reason that most people don't want a pop up ad driven internet experience - - . Think of the Facebook debacle now in making where the real driving force was this notion that advertisers could glean personal information and then exploit it to their benefit, something they could not otherwise do economically. It wasn't consumer driven, it was greed driven - - a sure formula for failure.

Google's Android Will Lead to New Class of Mobile Internet Devices

I believe there is going to be a lot of fight on the user/consumer side of the equation. A LOT! And therefore regard this hypothetical shift naive. Serious business people are going to continue to use MS Office or equiv on a PC, not a phone. And, from my discussions, people accepting adds popping up on their phone is highly improbable. Perhaps some lower earners and neophytes will go for a low cost connection. But not many, and when these "marketers" realize they aren't getting the market they dreamed of, the whole concept will evaporate. Perhaps the old axiom is appropriate here; "you get what you pay for."
This whole Google ad based connectivity based universe is pure masterbation. That doesn't mean Google won't try it, as they think they must to keep ad revenue flowing in. But a reality check with the consume/business person is highly advised. Like - who wants or needs it!