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It’s very easy to posture when you’re a millionaire on the strength of your athletic prowess and not your business acumen.

Rhode Island were offering deals to get companies to move there, with the idea being they could attract more businesses there, increase spending (from the company’s staff – they need houses and cars and groceries and shit), and eventually earn back tax dollars from the company if it’s successful.

I hope by streamlined they mean “not a total fucking memory hog on any device you throw them at” because seriously, it’s slow.

Odd that you should bring up Chrome. Like Android, it’s pretty much another AdWords trojan horse. It’s much easier to gather data to target ads if the user’s browser communicates with your services so closely.

I would argue Chrome is more successful in that regard. People who install Chrome want to surf the Internet, where Google’s ads live. People who buy a phone featuring Android might never touch the Internet – plenty of people are replacing feature phones with cheaper Android-based devices.

The rot was already there.

Samsung is, in terms of profits if not devices sold, the leading Android OEM by a country mile. It’s not a good sign that they’re developing their own operating system (Tizen) that has support for Android apps without being under Google’s stewardship.

And there are more and more Android forks happening where people are replacing Google’s own services with their versions of them. The Kindle Fire is currently the most succesful Android tablet, and Google doesn’t get anything out of it.

More often that not, what people call hacking is little more than social engineering. You can get most passwords from the person just by knowing them and their habits and weasling it out of them.

Steve was very definitely naive when he dismissed people’s desire for the larger form factor. Given how obnoxiously large vehicles and houses and food portions are in America, why wouldn’t phones follow suit?

Full marks to the RIM/Motorola/Nokia group for compromising.

I’m not technical enough to know which solution was actually the best (and I am not going to let my phone buying preferences make me vocal about one over the other), but after the earlier prissy-sounding response from the group, this is a step in the right direction.

Is revenue really the best measure of the success of a company? What about profit? Or am I being silly and naive?

Am I alone in dry heaving whenever I see phrases like “brand story”?

The entry level 8GB iPhone 4 launched on AT&T, Sprint and Verizon with the 4S.

I’m doing okay without WiMax or LTE – my data usage has been five times greater in an average month than it was on AT&T.

Not at all. The original iPhone didn’t support 3G because Apple could not achieve the battery life they wanted with existing 3G chips. It’s why the 4S does not support LTE, too.

I gave up fighting and ended up paying for mine. It worked great for the most part, and thankfully I could sell it on after I ditched AT&T… but still, the very concept of them having to piggyback my cable Internet to provide their service is just wrong.

The deal was supposedly a multi-year agreement so would likely include all generations from the 8GB iPhone 4 onwards.

And it makes great sense. There are loads of stories that I am too lazy to Google for you where they talk about smartphones carrying higher average revenues per user than regular phones, and the iPhones are often the leader of the smartphone pack in that respect. The cost Sprint are eating up front will theoretically come back as iPhone users spend more on network services over the life of their contract.

They gained a loyal customer in me thanks to getting the 4S. My bills are routinely cheaper than they were on AT&T, and while data speeds are slower, I actually get a signal in my home without a Microcell now… and I get consistent data on my commute.

That wasn’t the clincher, though. I recently had a trip back home to the UK. They SIM unlocked my 4S with zero fuss and it worked perfectly when I got to the UK and popped in a Three SIM card. That would never have happened under AT&T, they are fascists.

The taxes were one of the first benefits I noticed when I moved to the US from England – they are far lower. The shonky healthcare system not withstanding, I don’t suffer at all for paying less taxes, either.

If it was anything like the Vita’s browser, I don’t blame you… the Vita browser is shockingly bad. I’m not IE9’s biggest fan, but it’s light years ahead of that tripe.

Thanks for putting this out there. AT&T’s data charges are ridiculous across the board, but the SMS fees – essentially just data – are shocking.

Bloatware plus skins plus exhausting array of hardware plus carriers insisting on tests that appear to duplicate the OEMs’ own testing processes.

I think this would be an awful move. I agree with the notion of them going down the Sega path: becoming a software and peripherals company.

Derpa derpa derp. Seriously, Nintendo, this is some digital content 101-style shit here: let a user create an account, and create a mechanism by which they can transfer their purchases. You don’t have to go for the Apple-style multiple devices at once kinda vibe, even the XBLA system is better than this.

You need a dictionary. Copying and competition are two distinct things.

However, copying and improving can be classified as innovation – taking something and making it better.

“People who DO NOT PLAY GAMES DO NOT BUY DS’s.”

I think Nintendo would be hugely successful if they were a third party for Sony, Microsoft and Apple. Both games and accessories. They are really great at those things, but not the glue that you need to hold a gaming platform together these days: the hardware and overall ecosystem.