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Brilliant.
There is nothing more that can be said than what was in this article.
Hm....wonder why?
These aren't the droids we're looking for.
He can go about his business.
You can go about your business.
Move along.
Move along... move along
LOL just got through reading this at TR and sent TheStickman a link.
Of course the unsaid thing in the article is it should have been expected that Google’s main goal is money (and growth/power). They may occasionally have some lofty geeky goals but they come to their senses soon enough.
VERY sorry excuse for an article... I guess the ‘author’ never tried any of the wide variety of HTC or Motorola phones, which come with HTC and Motorola software. You MAY get a carrier logo on it, but that’s about it - it’s the phone maker’s software.
My last two smart phones came with bone-stock WinMo 6 (Samsung i760 bought September 2007) and WinMo 6.1 with HTC’s Touch UI on it (HTC Touch Pro2, bought September 2009). No Verizon software, and the only “Verizon” mark on either was a small logo up by the earpiece and the splash screen when booting (which, of course, you could change as you want - I changed both).
This article is nothing more than FUD meant to stop the tsunami that is Android. Android actually lets manufacturers, dealers, carriers, sellers - heck, even you if you wanted - brand and customize the phone as you desire. That’s called freedom and choice, and used to be celebrated by the technology press. My how times have changed...
Google is fascist.
Wow! I guess people love ads, bloatware. Some people around here sure do ...
At the risk of being flamed, there’s the massive cost of installing and maintaining the physical infrastructure of a network.
At this late date, no wireless provider has a total US footprint, let alone a total North American footprint.
This isn’t oil, where it was in the ground and all you really have to do is get it out, and where most of your infrastructure has been amortized over the last 40 or 50 years.
I’m not a Comcast customer, but I have had to analyze their company. To install the fiber, the modems, and the cabling necessary to meet the needs of a city of 100,000 people takes somewhere in the neighborhood of 400 to 600 miles of installation cabling of some sort. Cost = $1,000,000/mile and I can’t remember what the maintenance is on it (much lower, but still there).
Wireless has similar issues around number of nodes needed to handle exponential (not geometric) traffic increases.
You can’t do that and return a profit by giving it away.