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By: rhall112003

rhall112003 — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 17:46:55 +0000

Imasanti,

I wasn’t trying to imply that it did – I am just curious as to how this whole deal will play out with MS’s mobile marketshare as these carriers and hardware makers start to support a different platform.

Sprint absolutely is a parasite.

By: gus2000

gus2000 — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 15:55:22 +0000

Ummm, “schadenfreudewunsch “? I’m impressed you’re now coining your own words in foreign languages, but that’s a hell of a mouthful to pronounce. How about:

Schadenwich – “Finding joy in eating someone’s lunch”
Schademy – “Finding joy in sticking it to someone”
Schadenzoon – “Pretending to find joy”

Any others?

By: lmasanti

lmasanti — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 15:40:46 +0000

quote:
“Interestingly enough, some of MS’s key WinMobile partners on on-board with the Open Handset Alliance, including Sprint and HTC. ”

That does not mean anyting (good).
They are “parasites”…

parasite |ˈparəˌsīt|
noun
• an organism that lives in or on another organism (its host) and benefits by deriving nutrients at the host’s expense.
• derogatory a person who habitually relies on or exploits others and gives nothing in return.

By: rhall112003

rhall112003 — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 13:48:08 +0000

You were absolutely right about Google’s intentions, Dan… the entire ‘Android’ OS is being touted as an open alternative to the status-quo (WindozeMobile). Interestingly enough, some of MS’s key WinMobile partners on on-board with the Open Handset Alliance, including Sprint and HTC. Of course Verizon isn’t anywhere to be seen, and neither is Palm.

Palm hasn’t released anything actually ‘new’ in years, instead they just keep repackaging the same ole’ thing (it’s almost like getting yet another Chicago greatest hits album). We got some new WinMob 6 phones in the office – they’re awful.

By: Silver_Surfer1931

Silver_Surfer1931 — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 12:32:06 +0000

The one thing I noticed about your articles is that your prognosticating abilities is very accurate! I just re-read your article on “The Great Google gPhone Myth.” Damn…you are damn good. How do you do that? Maybe, you need to do an article on prognostication…you know, so that the other so called journalist can learn something.

By: slayerjr

slayerjr — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 10:32:17 +0000

Thats what I also reckon. The Zoon must become a real object, crafted to represent everything that is reprehensible about the recipient.

I vote it has many sharp corners.

By: johnnyapple

johnnyapple — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 08:14:56 +0000

I’ve said it before but will again simply because it’s fitting. According to estimates from Gartner, in the 3rd calendar quarter of 2007 Y/Y Mac sales were up 37% while non Apple PC sales grew by an “anemic” 2.6%. That’s over 14x the growth rate! I do understand the word don’t I? The other point I LOVE to make is that the “anemic” PC market is happening after Vista went on sale and before Leopard was available. That has GOT TO BE painful for Redmond and the shills to watch.

I’ll bet Apple could care less if 1 million iPhone sales means 1 million fewer iPod sales (it doesn’t). Has Wolverton ever seen a calculator or a spreadsheet? It doesn’t take a genius.

Let me try to use this word but this time by making up a fake opening sentence from our buddy Scott Moritz.

iPhone opening partial weekend sales were an anemic 270,000 when my sources said it would be a million.

That’s not exactly what he said but it’s a good summary.

One more thing… This quarter I expect the average daily sell through for iPod to be over 270,000 per day, every day, all quarter. I better go look up that word again because that doesn’t sound anemic to me.

Please send your donations to Daniel so he can afford to develop the Zoon into a large blunt object that can be presenting in person ;-)

By: lightstab

lightstab — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 06:09:16 +0000

Yes, but you wrote that article when the Google phone was still speculation (you might also have noticed that I commented about that article, which I thought was very good). Now that you’ve seen what Google is peddling, what do you think?

I for one don’t see the upside for consumers. Essentially Google is giving away this software for free, in exchange for a money model supported by an ad-driven phone system. The carriers are still free to close their systems once they get everything up and running. So, what do you think about that scheme? Is there any precedent in the history of the cell phone or computer market that indicates this might work?