Posts by Alfiejr

i thought Price/Dan's article is very insightful and a very good read. but in focusing on the Android platform's fragmentation problems he forgot to actually discuss its business model - the title of the piece! Google's goal of course...

Quote: Originally Posted by melgross I understand that. But Google has given up control on hardware specs, and even software specs. There's no way they can prevent manufacturers from adding whatever they want, and eliminating whatever...

Quote: Originally Posted by melgross That's one of the problems I keep bring up about removable cards. These newer phones don't work any differently than does my now old Treo 700p. When the card is removed, and another one put back,...

Quote: Originally Posted by anonymouse Probably in about 2-3 years it won't be, but in the immediate future it is likely to remain so. It's presently leading by more than double the marketshare and that lead isn't going to disappear...

Quote: Originally Posted by Quadra 610 Seen it before. http://www.intomobile.com/2009/06/08...at-100000.html http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/...id=OTC-RSS-FW0 Same numbers. A slow start for Droid, pretty anticlimactic,...

whether of not Apple is privately embarrassed about iPhone/touch success in gaming is irrelevant. it's what's happening that matters. the (relatively) sudden appearance of a new platform that provides plenty of gaming fun at 80% lower...

Quote: Originally Posted by Shrike This history is actually interesting. The Mozilla folks must be burning or something now. The Apple funded WebKit team is winning while the Google funded Mozilla team is losing. The Firefox developers...

Quote: Originally Posted by CloudFuture The subject Title is comparing the iPhone to Android. It can't be called trolling if you're giving your opinion. Steve made a ton of money for people paying way too much for being elite and...

Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism When you say “100% touch screen Ui” are you referring to no physical keyboard at all or just having a touch screen as well? How about finger-based v. stylus? I won’t even ask about multi-touch...

Quote: Originally Posted by melgross One question is, who is deciding which phones will be called smartphones? there is no real definition of course. but there are two ways to divide it up that would clarify the discussion at...