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Google's Schmidt: 'Android Adoption Is About To Explode'

What a moron you are, Tom B - have you ever seen ANY Android phone, loser?

Your comment immediately gave away your utter ignorance on the subject - nobody writes linux as LINUX except clueless wannabees who have know knowledge about the topic whatsoever.

Now tell me: just WTF "incompatible deisng" means for you? Incompatible with WHAT?

Also this implies there is a "compatible design" - just WHAT IS IT COMPATIBLE WITH and WHICH OS is it?

And when we are at it: since when a PHONE USER cares WTF is running underneath the GUI? You're truly out of your league, pal...

It's like ANY OTHER mobile phone OS except it is rapidly becoming the best one, the most advanced one (currently it's RIM's Blackberry OS and perhaps the latest Symbian when MS indeed releases its Symbian Office and Exchange clients.)

You also wrote this idiocy: "There'll be, like 500 different Android handsets. They'll sell-- I'll go out on a limb-- maybe 500 Android phones."

Ummm, hate to break it for you, pal, but even current Android phones ARE SELLING LIKE HOTCAKES - HTC sales are 20% up in 1H09 (biggest Android mfr w/ 4 diff models 'til date, first was T-Mobile's G1 a year ago) which clearly shows Windows Mobile is pretty much done.

You truly sound like an everyday clueless iPhone user... are you?

How Big Will Android Get?

BTW: www.ciozone.com/index....

Dell is COMING. And IT IS Android.

How Big Will Android Get?

On Oct 08 08:27 PM NDinMSP wrote:

> Although the OS market share will gradually level out into a close
> race between three or four players, Apple will still have a huge
> advantage. They will make every single AppleOS phone, while the other
> systems will be spread out among many manufacturers. Per-Phone market
> share will be highly in favor of Apple.

You are not making any sense - how is it an advantage for an OS that there's only ONE mfr's ONE model that runs it?

Pure illogical nonsense.

How Big Will Android Get?

On Oct 08 05:49 PM JamesApple wrote:

> Rim is anything but enterprise ready.

I guess you are smarter than the US Government, the Pentagon and all the Fortune 500 companies who utilize exclusively RIM's Blackberries...

> Business processes have no
> place for email only blackberrys. If anything, blackberrys get in
> the way of business processes forcing employees to waste time waddling
> thru hundreds of useless junk mails, meaningless messages and correspondences.
> It had been reported regular employees waste 3 to 5 hours on nonproductive
> email messages alone, and people wonder what happened to their lowered
> productivity.

Have you ever heard of this think called "spam filtering"? It's a magic thing, it throws out most of the unwanted crap...

FYI: most companies use a little bit more sophisticated systems than you can probably even imagine - I know because I used to manage one.
RIM OS isn't perfect at all, no 'bubbles', no constant stream of Facebook or Twitter BS or any other useless social stuff - but very solid enterprise features including full remote control (eg wiping of a lost phone), encryption, lot of customization-ready options from the beginning.

The single-tasking iPhone is not even close to this especially not with its own iDisk cloud crap - no sane company would host its secrets outside of its own admins' reach, for starter.

How Big Will Android Get?

After your last comment this

On Oct 08 05:42 PM JamesApple wrote:

> BTW. Not everybody sees things as clearly or as detailed as I do.
> There are always some who blindly buy anything, even blackberrys.
> There is no rationale to reason with the unreasonable ones.

is just PRICELESS, Sir. :D

How Big Will Android Get?

On Oct 08 05:32 PM JamesApple wrote:

> iPhone OS is a fully certified Unix,

Ehhhh?
WTF?
It's not even a real multi-tasking OS....
You are either completely and hopelessly clueless or you are playing from the cheesiest crappy PR playbook of Apple - you know, the one aimed at ignorant small investors who tend to eat this kind of BS, namely that iPhone's OS equals OS X - it IS NOT. Stop spreading BS, please.

iPhone OS != OS X

> running on multi-million dollar
> superservers serving the world's biggest public and private
> enterprises.

Yeah, right... iPhone OS is running on servers...
Seriously: just WTF are you talking about? :D
iPhone OS is running on "multibi-bi-bi-mmmmiii... dollar superservers" - I think I will start using this in my signline over at macrumors.com...

BTW since we are at it: please, show me a SINGLE million-dollar server that runs OS X - no, not multi-million, just ONE server with a $1M dollar pricetag including OS X.

Just FYI: Apple's Server SUCKS. It's a nice toy for SMBs and might serve other purposes but Apple has nothing to do with serious hardware at all - it's a newcomer with Intel and even Intel does not really scale well beyond the SMB market's size (= ~32-way max per server). Their (Intel) only half-decent solution was the 64-bit Itanium-family (at least it scales up to 128) but it's been pretty much dead for years now (its next Tukwila core is being postponed since early 2007), literally HP's Superdome being the only 'en masse' shipped IA HPC system (like 95%+ of all IA64 sales), which is even less impressive if we consider that HP was Itanium's original father, khm. Of course, it's not OS X...
If you want correct scaling on a massive scale, talk to Sun (SPARC) or IBM (Power) - and neither runs OS X, mind you.

> Android, webOS are derivatives of the open source Linux community
> running on various classes of business machines.

Well, unless you meant the community running on various machines :D your sentence, once again, not making any sense.

FYI: Android IS linux (but that's a general term for a group of Unixes or "Unix-like" OSes that are using the Linux kernel) and WebOS is also using the linux kernel but they cannot be more different: while Android is open source and OEM-ready since its inception, WebOS is a proprietary Palm operating system (sans its kernel.)
By design Android is capable to run on just about anything from a phone to warship, WebOS is only trying to be a mobile OS, nothing more, nothing less.

Ahhh, did I mention that Android actually DOES run on a "supercomputer", Freescale's Power platform...?


> For example, the
> IBM zOS mainframe can host 12000 concurrent Linux partitions (how's
> that for virtualization?), all the way down to a $299 Acer Aspire
> Netbook. Asia and Europe host millions of open source Linux implementations.
> Linux is by far the leading server OS over all other OS including
> Unix itself like HPUX. Linux open source projects proliferate throughout
> the universe and is the foundation for cloud computing and the future
> for social as well as commercial computing.
>
> The world is made up of two sides, the public side and the private
> side, all the interceptions in between are also categorized as public
> and private.
>
> iPhone will completely capture the private side of computing and
> Linux/Unix will completely capture the public side.
>
> Rim will be the first of a whole generation of phone making misfits
> which are extremely hardwired to the old unusable OSs like the blackberry
> OS in meeting the needs today, and tomorrow. Unlike Motorola which
> shed the old technologies without any baggages, and Palm shedding
> its old Palm OS offerings, Rim lives and dies by its blackberry OS,
> therefore Rim is getting killed first by Apple, then by and Android
> movement. There is no doubt in this.

Very nice and long just completely irrelevant - iPhone's OS has NOTHING to do with normal Unixes and its big bro OS X has nothing to do with any kind of HPC market (forget supercomputing.)

Beyond RIM's Blackberry OS Android is the *ONLY* mobile OS that has any kind of "enterprise-readiness" - iPhone, as a result of its super snappiness, is severely crippled even for a modern smartphone OS and WinMo v6.5 is just a broken architecture, period.

How Big Will Android Get?

On Oct 08 08:52 AM Justa Notherguy wrote:

> I think the important factor, here, is that you have no clue what
> you're talking about.

BINGO, well said!

All I see here is a lot of utterly clueless blokes are writing hilarious idiocies regarding something they obviously don't have the A SLIGHTEST CLUE about, let alone even basic technical proficiency.

Way too many loudmouthed losers with their own little stupid agenda, that's what it is.

How Big Will Android Get?

Well, let's see them...
Symbian will preserve its 1st place for few more years to come but whoever thinks Android won't leave Apple behind is kidding himself.
Heck iPhone is not even a multitasking phone, let alone the latest news of Jobs' continuing refusal of admitting Flash as the most important online format - of course, he has no choice, despite his high-end hardware in iPhone 3GS his iPhone OS is so wasteful, so very heavy on the hardver he does not have any spare clock left for real multitasking (imagine a slow iPhone, horror! :))
Windows Mobile is completely FUBARed, thanks to its ancient, total crap architecture - it's DEAD, period. MS' only chance if they throw 6.5 out the Windo(s) ;) and go back to the drawing board to start from sratch. It's a mobile OS, for God's sake, and the old ones are crappy, noone cares about backward compatibility anymore, WRITE A NEW ONE WITH PROPER APP HANDLING!

Palm and WebOS is very nice but Palm, as always, once again royally screwed up everything: no SDK at launch, no apps at launch, nothing at launch. It's 6 months later and still ridiculous number of apps (maybe 30?), SDK just been released and until now they didn't even have an open store policy for devs... PALM BUSINESS UNIT = SHEER INCOMPETENCY, AS ALWAYS.
If they can replace these idiots at the top and can bring in someone skilled and smart plus spend some big money on app development then they might have a chance for survival on the long run.

The only strong competitor in smartphones is RIM - their stuff is everywhere, even more than iPhone's and they are enterprise-ready, unlike any other mobile OS.

eBay's in No Rush to Spin Off Skype

"Philip Cohen wrote it:
Who cares about Skype?"

What an unbelievably dumb question... you have no clue about this entire online thingy, right?

Plenty of people cares about Skype, just about every other online users who like to use video for communication.

The problem is not the popularity of Skype - if you'd know anything about it tens of millions of active users would tell you something - but its SH!TTY quality, features and, of course, the shocking incompetency of eBay who can't figure out WTF to do with Skype.

Skype should be sold, ASAP, otherwise it will go down the toilet over the years - it's more than obvious eBay has NO FREAKIN' CLUE ABOUT SKYPE: desktop sharing as new feature? Netmeeting in Windows 98 had it by default, WTF is wrong with you???
Try focusing on your utter crap audio codec and your even worse video codec - why is it that Skype IS THE WORSE QUALITY AV CHAT CLIENT OUT THERE, for meny years now?

Interface is clunky, cluttered, stupid, with no logic whatsoever, STILL NO MULTIUSER SUPPORT - WTF are you doing, people in charge for development over at Skype, huh???

But I fully agree, eBay is a CEO-damned company - first an utterly clueless, overpaid stupid gal with literally zero clue about the big picture then this loudmouthed loser, Donahoe, with literally zero clue about the entire online business who surely running it into the ground - it is only a matter of time when eBay stops being a #1` online marketplace... and the irony will be that it happened during an economic downturn which is the best period for marketplaces....

...yes, Donahoe is criminally stupid and arrogant, a continuous disaster for eBay, no question about it - I hope at the end of his tenure shareholders will take him to the court.

Netbooks Will Push Games to the Cloud

On Nov 24 04:03 PM dnice wrote:

> Sorry but this makes little sense. First off PC games are far from
> popularity of console games and they surely are not the future of
> gameing.

Nonsense. Consoles might sell more but PC games always had and still have an edge when it comes to new game genres, new graphics, inventions in gaming etc.

In other words without PC as the #1 game *inventor* platform console gaming would be an utter crap.
Also there are several types of gmaes that are either simply laughably simplified on consoles (stupid controllers, anyone?) or doesn't even exist at all (stupid controllers, anyone?).

Anything that sets new standards in game graphics always arrive on PC.
In fact PC is *THE* standard, consoles rather just copy it and provide a more streamlined - thus more cost effective - development pipeline.


> Simply look at the amount of store space given to consoles
> vs. pc games.

Ehh? PCs have a MAGNITUDE MORE space than consoles, you're not making sense, I'm afraid.

> Second PC games require expensive hardware to play
> which flies in the face of this idea that netbooks are going to be
> cheap. $100 dollars? Not with the video card that costs $400. Even
> with mmos you need the power to display the images even if they are
> in a cloud.

Even though your numbers are way off - the sub-$200 Radeon 4850 is the "affordable & powerful" poster child of the PC VGA market for months now - the final conclusion is correct, indeed.

> Another thing it runs on linux an ubuntu. Sorry that's
> not mainstream and it's not scaring any of the major players. Hey
> social networking and gaming are already together on services like
> xbox live and social networking is trendy. It's already fading away.
> I know few people who use myspace or facebook like they used too.
> As for an arrow in the back. Looks to me like this is more like an
> flimsy twig breaking in two on impact and not even leaving a scratch.

I agree, social gaming is sort of an oxymoron for me too: the only people into constant Twittering etc I know are those way beyond your typical gaming age - they never be hooked on any game, that's for sure.

Netbooks Will Push Games to the Cloud

Bruce,

I am not sure how well-versed you are in gaming but I doubt you clearly understand the requirements of *ANY* modern game, even in lower resolution and the compromises these dirt cheap netbooks enforce on the manufacturers.
HINT: I have a netbook and I would never try to play any of my games on it because it's simply incapable unless I turn everything off and choose VGA or lower resolution, essentially killing the experience.

The only new market could be some netbook-optimized gaming but I highly doubt that after PSP, DS, iPod, iPhone, N-Gage, Windows Mobile etc any developer would want to risk a single cent on porting their game to -yet-another-crippled-...

Citigroup: The End Draws Near

VERY WELL SAID!

DIE, Citi, DIE, DIE, DIE!!!

All global banks - becuase Citi has nothing to do with US anymore, it's the quintessential globalized corporate entity on its own - acted truly dispecable in the past 10-15 years but Citi is THE MOST DISGUSTING PIECE OF LOANSHARKING, LYING, CHEATING, utterly rotten PoC institution.

DIE, Citi, DIE, DIE, DIE!

Should We Really Bail Out the Big Three Automakers with $73.20 Per Hour Labor?

You're talking about trucks, right?
Because if you aren't then this is exactly the kind of idiocy that led to here, this kind of self-delusional BS caused this crap D3 is - thus we all are - in now.


On Nov 13 05:30 PM richard nogginn wrote:

GM v6 engines
> are almost as economical as Toyota 4 bangers.

Live Search Cashback and eBay Bucks: Review of Services

eBay SUCKS, period.

Can't wait to see someone pushing this ARROGANT, CLUELESS, UNSCRUPULOUS, GREEDY MF COMPANY under water.
Only then they will learn some fuckin respect, how to treat their freakin' customers.

It was always a fuckin' negligent, arrogant and greedy company but since the beginning the year it's downright SUCKS.: ever raising prices, ever-disappearing seller tools and features and PayPal is, literally, WORTHLESS.
:We got you covered" - yeah, my @ss, perhaps because when I got robbed by some fuckin' Midwest redneck seller (never sent me the speakers I bought) PayPal technically told me "here's X amount of money and get lost" where X was about half of what I paid.
Fuckin worthles piece of crap - the only time when I use eBay is when I know can get at least 25% back via Live Cashback. If it weren't for Microsoft eBay would be dead for months now, I am telling you - everybody around me (tech firm) ONLY uses it when Live Cashback is up at 25% and they are about to spend at least 300-400 dollars.

Ahhk, the eBay Bucks etc are all utter crap, technically frauds.

Who's to Blame for IndyMac's Failure?

As a former Central European who can thank Soros a lot, all I can say is that ill-informed village idiots like SPECULATOR WATCHER really need a little education - he got almost all the facts WRONG about Soros, not to mention he's primitive, barely hidden anti-Semitic comments.
As for CentralNY'ers et al: trust me, we, people in NYC are way more pissed by the worthless Upstate, especially its Brunos and similar parasites.