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Editorial: Hey, AT&T -- drop lawsuits, not calls {Engadget Mobile}
Nov 16th 2009 8:38AM The question is really whether you believe they are attacking the iPhone or not. Other than the "iDon't" commercial, they have been pretty carefully parsed. Look at the island of misfit toys commercial. "Why are you here? You run apps, you browse the web, people will love you" ... all except for the network it is on. Is that offensive to Apple, or is that courting Apple, saying... just imagine if you were on THIS network!!
Personally, I think Apple wants to be on Verizon... and Verizon wants an Apple product. But both want things on THEIR terms, and it is simply a question of who is going to blink first and yield some ground to reach a compromise.
Editorial: Hey, AT&T -- drop lawsuits, not calls {Engadget Mobile}
Nov 16th 2009 8:31AM The only map of the markets I can find right now is this one...
http://forums.wirelessadvisor.com/verizon-wireless-users/72869-map-and-list-markets-divested-verizon.html
If at&t doesn't buy these markets... *somebody* will have to, because that is the whole point of the FCC requiring the divesting of these markets... so that Verizon can't be the "only player" in that space.
Nokia rumored to be eyeing Palm buy yet again {Engadget Mobile}
Nov 16th 2009 8:20AM @christexaport
"So your suggestions that they abandon the most robust and feature complete OS for a nascent OS with 5% of the market is retarded thinking."
We are *all* opinions an nothing more. But just because don't agree don't make somebody else's thoughts "retarded thinking." That is all I meant about the "name calling" (Yes, I do realize some do worse, but it was out of place with the rest of your well thought out "proof" of why you believe you are correct.
And, no... I do not think that by doing some of the things you are mentioning that Nokia is "staying the course" with Symbian... necessarily. At the very least they are doing far more than Microsoft did to help keep WinMo from falling apart and out of favor the way it did. But honestly, I thought some of the best moves Nokia made was the acquisition of TrollTech and the addition of P.I.P.S. which may help make the development of apps and extensions of the platform attainable for many more developers.
But the question remains, and is spurred at least in part by the fact that (although they deny it) that Samsung looks to (possibly) be abandoning Symbian, and Sony Ericson is at the very least, if not giving up on Symbian, to be spreading their choices around by using Android on at least some products.
I'm not so much disagreeing with you, as trying to point out that their is more than one way to look at how this can possibly unfold, and that the thought of Nokia offering (not really replacing per se) Android devices may not be cut and dry "retarded thinking."
ViewSonic heats up phone collection, V901 spotted on Microsoft China site {Engadget Mobile}
Nov 14th 2009 10:13PM @Plexus
I love ViewSonic monitors, and have no complaints about them, I am not an investor in the stock so I do not pay attention to their "small TV sales in Eastern Europe and the Middle East." What I do know is that (from my narrow U.S. centric view) when ViewSonic (as well as Dell, Gateway and a few others) got into the television market, they were thought to be game changers. It never materialized Instead their sales fell flat and (then) no name brands such as Vizio blew right by them. Take a look at a major retailer like Best Buy and you will see that they do not even carry any ViewSonic televisions any longer.
Top U.S. Brands (as of Q1 2009) by market share
Vizio
Samsung
Sony
LG
Sharp
I wish you well in depending on ViewSonic to save your butt as a stock... just so long as you don't look for US based LCD sales to bail you out.
Editorial: Hey, AT&T -- drop lawsuits, not calls {Engadget Mobile}
Nov 14th 2009 8:35PM Sprint has opted for the HD-DVD of 4g networks. Sure, they got a head start... to a dead end. It might help them in the short term in the few markets they have taken online already, but when LTE starts rolling out... then what?
Editorial: Hey, AT&T -- drop lawsuits, not calls {Engadget Mobile}
Nov 14th 2009 8:18PM I have no intention of moving to the iPhone (or whatever "other Apple phone") comes to Verizon Wireless, but I would agree with Don-Don that I would be surprised if there is not some version of Apple phone on VZW.
And to answer Toledo Guy's question as to "why would Apple give them a product?" That is simple... Apple likes to make money. So you are going to not sell a product to the largest Wireless provider in the country? That would be the epitome of cutting off their nose to spite their face. Other than the "iDon't" commercial, none of the Verizon ads go directly after Apple as much as at&t, and that is most likely on purpose. But I do hope you are right that this has given at&t a wakeup call that they need to step up the efforts to build out their network... and that was the point of this post to begin with wasn't it? That building out their network rather than spending money on (arguably) frivolous lawsuits is the key to their success.
Editorial: Hey, AT&T -- drop lawsuits, not calls {Engadget Mobile}
Nov 14th 2009 6:48PM The areas in which Verizon has "all" the spectrum (including parts of VA and the Carolina's) are the one's that at&t are looking to purchase (for approximately $2.5 billion) since Verizon has to divest them as part of the merger agreement... so in essence the FCC has already stepped in since the sale can't go through until this is completed.
Nokia rumored to be eyeing Palm buy yet again {Engadget Mobile}
Nov 14th 2009 6:37PM There are valid points on both sides of this argument, both of you have valid points, which I suspect is why Nokia finds itself at the crossroads it does right now, and why rumors like this deal for Palm continue to surface.
@Plexus - the one thing (besides great industrial design) Nokia has done is build itself a reputation on its own, and unlike manufacturers like HTC and Samsung, they are a leader not a follower. Yes, they make cheap handsets but they have also been known for their solid upper brand sets as well. Running to Android makes them become a "me too" player trying to skin Android to be their "own" Now that might be one prong of a multi-proing attack, but not at the price of abandoning everything else.
@Cristexaport - it is funny how you knock somebody else for making "emotional choices" and then at the same time degrade into name calling because you don't like what was suggested. It is also amusing that your suggestion that when on top, the only play is to "stay the course" because you are doing better than anybody else at that particular moment... Because, isn't *that* (and not "reacting to emotional choices") that really had the death sprial effect that put Motorola in the position they were in? Despite clamoring to change and the end of the "thin is in" vogue of 5 years ago, Motorola continued pegging way too much on the Razr, Krazr, the Q and other thin but mediocre products?
It seems there will be some shakeout coming soon... real soon, and not everybody will survive... at least not in the form as they stand today...and I look forward to seeing what this landscape is going to look like.
ViewSonic heats up phone collection, V901 spotted on Microsoft China site {Engadget Mobile}
Nov 14th 2009 6:14PM So somebody at Samsung found a sucker to pawn off their designs that didn't make the cut, and now they will be a "ViewSonic." Didn't ViewSonic learn their lesson with their foray into televisions that "me too" products don't make it very far (or make a company very profitable)?
Analyst estimates 100,000 DROID smartphones sold in first weekend {Engadget Mobile}
Nov 11th 2009 2:58PM So if the OS is "clunky and geeky as hell" wouldn't you say it is wise that they only market the phone to the "geeky as hell" crowd?
Mind, you I do not agree with you, just because something isn't done "Apple's way" doesn't make it any less usable. Sure, if you are used to doing something one way, it takes a learning curve to learn something new, that is true of any paradigm shift.
Who would have though just 3 years ago, that flipping threw pages and pages of icons (because there is not single central repository for them) to find the app you wanted to start was "intuitive"? Or that we would have very powerful phones that could only do one task at a time? I guess that is intuitive... if you have a one track mind.
The iPhone was a good starting point into finally making SmartPhones useful again after years of Stagnation at the hands of RIM and WinMo... but the world does not stop there.
