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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.

Microsoft's iPhone Envy Is Starting To Show

Ever have those bad dreams where you are running down field in liquid molasses? One foot forward takes a minute. And its raining hard, and the fog is so bad you can't even see the end of the field.
That is what it would be like if there ever was an acquisition of Apple by MSFT.
Which has zero probability.

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.

Windows Collapsing Under Its Own Weight - Gartner

Mini point to was_fred: Apple's System 10.4 (Tiger) does support Classic applications. Can't speak for most recent (10.5) but I think classic runs under 10.5 as well. But only on a non-Intel Mac. Its only Intel Macs that won't run classic. All PPC Mac do. So, I'm not sure what your point is regarding Vista.

Microsoft's License of Adobe Flash Lite for Mobile Devices is Good for Consumers

My understanding of this is that Apple has already examined Flash (don't know about Flashlite), and rejected it because it is an energy hog. I agree also about annoying advertisements that will then pop up all the time, using bandwidth, slowing everything down to a crawl, and - producing a lousy user experience. So, who really needs this? Users? or advertisers who are pressuring to pump their junk onto your phone - and you have no way out of this mess.