Lelang

Oh god no. NO. Opera is chock full of technical innovation brilliance. Facebook will destroy that.

THANK YOU. I clicked through to post something to this effect. It’s barely even cracking. It’s just good guessing.

I will play the living shit out of this game, endlessly and with great joy. Just like I did for the first one.

They’re not being forced by anything except a market that wants them to provide it. It’s the very essence of capitalism. Someone has come up with a disruptive innovation that challenges their model. Evolve or get trampled.

But they are holding back a technology – their main complaint is that this circumvents their ability to decide what gets in what market and when. The market demand is for more flexibility in this arena, which someone has built the technology for. They don’t want it.

As for the reselling issue, this seriously is an exact parallel to the birth of the cable movement. Go look at the Supreme Court case Fortnightly Corp v United Artists from 1968. SCOTUS ruled that cable companies did no wrong by distributing publicly broadcast shows over cable networks. It strikes me as a pretty strong legal precedent!

I’ll say it again… broadcasters went through this exact same fight with the original cable operators in the 60s, when their main focus was to use receiver towers to pipe broadcast content to cable centers to distribute to weak signal areas, rural and urban. They fought this exact battle (new & superior distribution technology) using the same arguments (copyrighted materials) to try to end cable TV completely. Look how well that worked!

Guys, the technology is there. It works better than your technology and the market wants it. You can either start a long and expensive court battle to eventually be bitchslapped by a (currently) progressive-minded FCC, or you can buck up and start evolving your business model.

I lost my phone this morning (remembered where it is now though), and so I have endured approximately 5.5 waking hours with no cell phone. I have a great memory for objects, so this practically NEVER happens to me, which makes it extra-strange. It actually kind of bothered me at the bus stop this morning, where everyone was eyeball-deep in smartphone, and I kind of fidgeted. Where’s my music? My morning news? And when the hell is this bus coming? And that’s from 1/4 of a day.

I laud your experiment, because it saves me from having to do it myself. I’d fall apart.

Deja vu… isn’t this EXACTLY what NBC fought with the cable companies about in the 1960s? It took Nixon’s FCC and the court system to get the broadcasters to sit down and shut up. We wouldn’t even have cable now if they had had their way (or at least not the way it looks now).

Thanks for stifling innovation guys! Much appreciated!

SO MUCH BLOAT. Jesus. Every time I hear another Branded Patent-pending GeeWhiz S Service integrated, it’s just something else I’m going to have to disable and delete. I’m ditching my aging Evo 4G very soon and thought this might be the one, but I am never making the mistake of going with some godawful overbranded skinned beast again.

Frankly, I bet Samsung sells a lot of these though. Face it, we’re geeks and in the minority in terms of caring about this stuff. It’s shiny and it will sell well.