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I disagree. Android just has to be “good enough”, because it is free. Android already has OEM, Carrier, and User attention since it is free. Perhaps saying “no reason” was a bit much, really I should say “little reason” to improve Android since it is free.

All Google wants is an OS that it is in control of and can use to spread to as many devices as possible.

samstolin, I agree with you.

Since android is free, and Google makes its revenues from ads, technically Google has no reason to make Android good. All Google has to do is at least have a device that can display google.com and admob ads. In my opinion there is no difference in the money Google makes from a high end Galaxy Nexus device and a Motorola Backflip, because they both use google.com and have admob ads.

If Google sold android for money, Google would be forced to make android great all the time. Google could not half ass any features because they have paying customers (OEMs) and competitors (iOS and WP7) who would not allow them to coast. Android being free and cheap allows it to get away with not being great all the time.

I’m not saying this story isn’t true, however, this article seems slightly fishy to me. The source article does not specifically say that the Microsoft employee said that WP7 has 7% marketshare. I’ve been trying to find another source for the quote (you would think that Microsoft employees would tell multiple sources) but the only source seems to be this Dutch online magazine.

I don’t believe came in and screwed with technology. The Micro-sim standard had been proposed in 1998 and ratified since 2003. Apple just chose to use the standard no one else was using since the needed the room in the iPad and iPhone.

The report, published in a Korean economic newspaper and covered by Reuters, said the orders had come from 100 networks around the world, and that production of the S3 was running at its 5 million phones per-month capacity.

9 million from the phone networks not consumers.

It the trend in website development lately. They are making their site more friendly to view on a tablet screen. It has the magazine feel. Ars isn’t copying the verge. Ars is responding to the current trend of website browsing. More and more people are browsing on their tablets and websites such as Ars and the Verge must adapt to that.

I don’t think that Apple is going to go the conventional method of NFC. My opinion is that it makes more sense for them to use bluetooth 4.0 and it’s low energy specification to interact between payment. I don’t think apple wants to toss an another chip in their phone that could draw more power.

Apple will push that iPads, iPod Touches and iPhones could become point of sale systems, replacing traditional credit card machines and registers. Imagine, for the price of an cheap iPod touch and wifi you can take credit card payments. You can already do this with Square (the coffee shop near my job uses an iPad and a square card reader), but Apple could make this even bigger.

For more, here is the last post from Arrington’s personal blog where he calls Yahoo’s integrity hotline:

Arrington has been making fun of Yahoo all day because it was recently found out the CEO of Yahoo had said in his company bio that he had a degree in computer science, when he doesn’t.

I’ll also say no, but with a different reason that adent (even though he is right). Apple has to release iOS 6.0 SDK beta months before the release of the next iPhone, so that developers can take advantage of the new hardware/apis and have developers release brand new apps or update existing ones the day of the release of the new iPhone.

Apple will not announce a new iPhone at WWDC, and release that iPhone a week later without giving their developers time to acclimate themselves to the new OS environment.