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I use an iPhone. Most of my friends have a Nexus S or other androids.
Lobby it's friends in Ottawa to require all cell phones in Canada to be made by a Canadian owned company.
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You mention 'at least two players' but from your explanation, you seem satisfied with ONLY two players. I disagree. I'd rather have multiple competitive players than merely two.
I can't recall the name off hand and my googlefu is failing me but there's a theory that says a system that supports multiple political parties eventually evolves (or devolves) into two parties. I think there's a business correlary as well. Markets aren't designed to support more than one or two players. There's not enough market share in a given space for it. Eventually you'll have first, second and everyone else. T…
For instance, look at state of the Canadian Parliament. For the longest time, the Conservative and Liberal parties were the two largest parties generally swapping power every couple of years. Now we see the Liberals have severely dropped in the power with the rise of the NDP to become the Official Opposition and being the second most voted party in Parliament. Even the Conservatives, who the hold, only garnered 40% of Canadian votes.
Again, what you're saying is a theory and it isn't even always the case.
I love the quotation. I guess having a website means you make nonsensical statements and then be quoted on some smear campaign's website? "This campaign may be the dumbest thing ever posted to the Internet" -- Jonathan Rockway, jrock.us. Credible! (Also, while Google ads may have funded the beginning of Android, it has enough corporate sponsorship now that it could easily outlive Google. Samsung or HTC could easily t…
Do you think that Android in its current incarnation as quasi-open-source, free to adopt, would survive? Or do you think it would be death by a thousand forks, where Samsung, HTC, Motorola, etc. all grabbed their own copy of the repository and made TouchWiz, Sense, and Blur respectively a core part of the UI? I just can't see how Android as a device-agnostic OS would survive without a relatively neutral curator.
Not that this will happen.
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> every player needs to be balanced Correction: at least two players need to be balanced. iPhone, to my mind, provides just such a balance. Trying to boost every single also-ran product into a position of strategic equity is a waste of time. Right now, RIM is the poster child for the Innovator's Dilemma, and there's little anyone including RIM can do about it.
You mention 'at least two players' but from your explanation, you seem satisfied with ONLY two players. I disagree. I'd rather have multiple competitive players than merely two.
Together they could easily make a much more successful OS than WP7, and a worthy competitor to Android. Alone, they don't stand a chance. Nobody does, except Apple, because Apple has a lot of other advantages besides just an OS. The problem is they think the only way to be as successful as Apple is to have your own OS. And that's not nearly enough at this point.
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These aren't my pictures, but they were posted to Twitter, so I think they're fair game: http://twitpic.com/5olpan http://twitpic.com/5olpi2 http://twitpic.com/5olpn6 http://twitpic.com/5olpup
I honestly thought this whole thing was a hoax or some type of bad joke, then I see my former engineering building behind some people carrying the stupidest signs imaginable. This reeks of the "buy American" bromide that GM fans expose. I have to believe that most people at U of W don't have an unnatural affinity towards RIM, and that this is all just a really stupid stunt.
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Do you think that Android in its current incarnation as quasi-open-source, free to adopt, would survive? Or do you think it would be death by a thousand forks, where Samsung, HTC, Motorola, etc. all grabbed their own copy of the repository and made TouchWiz, Sense, and Blur respectively a core part of the UI? I just can't see how Android as a device-agnostic OS would survive without a relatively neutral curator.
An open foundation could work. Imagine Apache Android. Sure there would be fragmentation, but at the moment the need for apps is pushing them together. If web apps win then the APIs look a bit different, with more scope for UX differences. Not that this will happen.