RandySquirrels

This is good news for “The People”.

(EVO Pre-Orders on Sprint)

Spent, and Waiting.

I sat up to read the article and my wallet fell out of my pocket.

Rockstar is one of the best developers in the business, and every game they bring to market is incredibly deep and challenging. Red Dead Redemption was incredible, and this sounds even better.

All that technology, and that is the demo?

I like you now, Paul.

Jack White’s streaming show Friday night on VEVO was pretty cool, and if the video quality was a little better it would have been amazing.

Rollover mustache, check.

I am, therefore I think. See also Opinions.

Get back in your pen, Giblet.

Verge » You dogged Sprint about their marketing hype for this phone considering their current 4G failures, but praised the phone itself. Rumors are that their LTE rollout might happen sooner than predicted in additional markets, such as Chicago. Can you do a follow up review specifically on this model and Sprint’s LTE / HD Voice rollout plans? We need some kind of ‘Pipeline’ on the Verge for the different hardware, software and carriers to show what is rumored to release and when. I would also be interested to read a review of emerging service options for unlocked phones (such as the Nexus).

Besides my name, I am just like the rest of you, who feel increasingly trapped into making a decision of compromise. I want to pick a horse, but I don’t want to be forced to look it in the mouth. Everyday I want to pick a horse less and less, and would rather pick All of them or None of them than One of them.

Josh really nailed it when he said we need more open file standards and less OS / ecosystem commitment. Everything needs to go back to the web, rather than these Mafia-style app stores and markets with their ridiculous fee structures for developers and insane privacy issues for consumers. Apple, Google & Microsoft in particular should not be allowed this amount of control along with their telecom partners. I don’t want to be locked into anything, whether it’s an overpriced data and phone service contract, a sunk-cost ecosystem investment, or a trendy lifestyle association.

If I buy an app from any developer, I should own it on the web, iOS, Android, Windows (and any other platforms they serve), and be able to share my files and apps freely between all of my devices. If that can’t happen, then we need to create a new open community-based ecosystem, operating system, web browser and data network (with a personal cloud that you control).

For this, I would gladly pay today for a hamburger Tuesday (if we could use a Kickstarter approach to replace these technology monsters with a newly funded open ecosystem that we all own together). Also, I agree with TOMMMMMM that HTC really had a good thing going, but wrecked it by exerting too much control over the UI, locking down bootloaders, being too slow with software updates, and releasing so much garbage into the market since the original Evo. HTC, Nokia, Samsung and others could still make the hardware, but they should all get out of the software game, and leave that to the big 3 plus the ‘open community’, which could easily end up being based on WebOS.

Aw, nuts.