Wait, this is serious? It smells like satire, or at best a troll. If you have a legit startup why in god's name would you act like RIM is the source of value and innovation in mobile? Why would you wed yourself to a company that's doing so poorly?
As I run past the RIM buildings, I see these posters
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Re: As I run past the RIM buildings, I see these posters
#82He hits a nerve, though. The evangelism for companies has been rising at an insane rate. Why do people feel the need to defend their favorite company against the encroachment of other companies? I could understand if their paycheck was on the line. If you write iPod apps and Android starts taking market share, that threatens you. (Assuming you can't also write Android apps, for whatever reason.) But most people just…
Re: As I run past the RIM buildings, I see these posters
#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
HTC pays Microsoft for using Android and soon Samsung may join too. Since Googles smart-ass bidding for Nortel patent did not play out taking over "free" OS may seem to expensive for these companies: pay for development and pay patents fee. http://paidcontent.org/article/419-why-google-and-android-mu...
Can someone point out which part of my comment is not true or is just stupid? Thanks.
Your comment needs punctuation and/or rephrasing; it's difficult to parse and, even then, vague as to your intended meaning
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Re: As I run past the RIM buildings, I see these posters
#84I 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.
This would rapidly become the Unix-wars of the 80's all over again... OR Microsoft would gladly step into Google shoes, completely uninvited but unchallenged, while wielding their deadly patent swords.
Re: As I run past the RIM buildings, I see these posters
#85He hits a nerve, though. The evangelism for companies has been rising at an insane rate. Why do people feel the need to defend their favorite company against the encroachment of other companies? I could understand if their paycheck was on the line. If you write iPod apps and Android starts taking market share, that threatens you. (Assuming you can't also write Android apps, for whatever reason.) But most people just…
Hypothesis: Brand loyalty is the new Nationalism.
Re: As I run past the RIM buildings, I see these posters
#86I 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.
There are economic benefits to playing well together. Hopefully the hardware vendors will figure this out if they haven't already.
Re: As I run past the RIM buildings, I see these posters
#87Cute marketing campaign. Pretty straight up CHE-UP.
Re: As I run past the RIM buildings, I see these posters
#88I 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…
HTC pays Microsoft for using Android and soon Samsung may join too. Since Googles smart-ass bidding for Nortel patent did not play out taking over "free" OS may seem to expensive for these companies: pay for development and pay patents fee. http://paidcontent.org/article/419-why-google-and-android-mu...
But if they used their own OS, they would pay for development and patent fess, too. And if they use a commercial OS, the patent fees are just rolled into the final price (and other companies can still go after them for other patents; no software includes patent indemnity).
Re: As I run past the RIM buildings, I see these posters
#89He hits a nerve, though. The evangelism for companies has been rising at an insane rate. Why do people feel the need to defend their favorite company against the encroachment of other companies? I could understand if their paycheck was on the line. If you write iPod apps and Android starts taking market share, that threatens you. (Assuming you can't also write Android apps, for whatever reason.) But most people just…
Hypothesis: Brand loyalty is the new Nationalism.
When do we get out Congress of Vienna and World Wars on brands/IP then?
Re: As I run past the RIM buildings, I see these posters
#90According to a whois the site is run by the owner of this site: http://www.paybuyer.com/ PayBuyer appears to be an ad network. In other words, the guy could care less about Android and is just mad that AdSense/AdWords dominates. It's funny that supporters of RIM have taken it seriously without doing 30 seconds of research.
I've had dealings with paybuyer and Mike Rosides. I will never have anything to do with them ever again. Just the thought of it makes my skin crawl.