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Amazon ALSO knows that if it becomes the ONLY middleman between authors and readers, it will have TOTAL control of payments to authors, margins and retail pricing. Further, if it destroys competitors (Borders, B&N, Apple, …) there won’t be anybody able to rebuild a market in which lower prices could challenge them.

Amazon has a fair amount of cash (allowing them to wait for the high profits) and has executed on this strategy remarkably well. I don’t have any inside information that proves this is their intent, but there is zero evidence to the contrary. Plus, Bezos is a sharp businessman; financial dominance is the sort of success he’s best at.

Take those hotspots and arrange them so that any spot is no more than 200 feet away—about the max you can hope for coverage. They’ll cover a bit more than half of New York City.

Arrange them so that you have to walk a half mile, max, and you can cover a square 200 miles on a side. You’d almost be able to blanket Kentucky.

All well & good, but somehow this seems to fall short of the sort of coverage that even we metropolitans might hope for.

This time, backed by a deep-pockets firm that has managed to clamber to the top of the Android heap, despite not controlling that environment—in fact, despite the risk of seeing Google favoring its adopted child, Moto.

Sammy now seems committed to WP, Android and Tizen. But only Tizen will give them control of its own destiny.

So why did Google not build their browser from scratch and not have to deal with all that Apple software crap?

Must be a bunch of dummies, to have built atop such a crap foundation.

PS: which sections of the WebKit code did YOU contribute? Please, do tell us about your expertise with programming real projects, since there are insinuations that you don’t know much of anything you write about.

Thanks in advance!

There are many things that matter about a screen: contrast, brightness, % of light visible off-axis, color shifts when you view it at an angle, and… resolution.

PenTile is pretty great on many of the measures, has one or two that historically have been not so great, and just plain gives fuzzy, hard-to-read text in many circumstances. Say, blue text on a black background, a not-uncommon format. Since only every other pixel has a blue LED, you only get half as many chances to show what you want. Ergo, fuzzy.

The other knock on Sammy displays has been that they crank up the contrast to horrific levels. Looks zingy and sharp in the showroom but is hard to live with and makes photos look artificial. That’s Samsung and their software drivers, tho, not PenTile.

Really, most of these "reviews" are by people who have no idea what they’re talking about when it comes to displays that will be good-looking for what you need over time. Might as well ask Mikey.

Everybody who posts here is of the opinion that their opinions matter. Certainly, the popularity of a phone has a LOT to do with word-of-mouth from enthusiasts.

So yes, what you say is true. A lot of Americans drink Bud Lite, too, and think it’s perfectly good enough for them.

Maybe not, but Mr. O would like you to believe that x86 devices could compete with ARM. Then, the legacy apps could come for "free;" letting customers plug in or bluetooth in a keyboard/mouse, and be good to go on legacy apps.

The move is a bit more effective FUD than you give credit for. A bit. And it’ll all depend on Intel actually having a credible processor at the power envelope that works for mobile.