• Google phone now official. I give you a number of reasons why I think it will flop.
• New idea to make an instant-on computer. It boots around Windows? Cripes! Why can’t Microsoft make an instant-on OS?
• Kids at Fresno State busted for hacking the computers.
• Steve Ballmer says “We didn’t make a mistake.” What’s that all about?
• Tom Perkins has new book, he slams Carly Fiorina.
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but then again, JCD, you thought Apple should abort the iPhone … now they are pulling in serious profit on the handset and $18/month on each.
if google cranks out a smartphone OS that is easy to use (one of the primo reasons that the iPhone is successful), useful (google maps with GPS alone would be invaluable), give it away like a standard handset, and they will sell LOTS of them. and google makes big cash on location-sensitive ads.
paired with decent hardware, I see success for android OS.
One word JCD – Mouse
What was the prognostication on that again?
I saw this Phoenix guy’s blurb about PC’s taking long to boot.
Mine gets up in 40ish seconds, always has. Windows XP at that, but I don’t have 3000 things loading on start up, either.
The key with a Windows machine is no unnecessary programs at start up, and keep it clean from spyware. Those two things are what takes so long to boot.
#2 — there was none. In 1984 I said it was an experimental device. I never made a prognostication. So what is your BS point?
Google is also clearly aiming for third world markets here.
P.S. Where are your tequila ads? I miss them
#1,
do you have an iPhone?? It DONT HAVE GPS..
#3. and how many USERS, not geeks, CLEAN up the crap..
I clean about 200 computers a year..
#4,
CORRECT and Norton and McAfee SUCKS…which are the standard progs installed…AND NEVEr updated.
Vodka, NEXT… forget that, do CAMELS…they have lots of money..
#7. yes. I know it does not have GPS.
a gphone that is as easy to use as an iPhone, and which is subsidized, but which DOES have GPS would be immensely popular.
Windows (XP at least) startup isn’t a problem. It’s the shutdown.
Seems to take noticably longer than startup.
The Google phone will be a flop BECAUSE IT’S GOING TO BE CHEAP.
#9 – Just because we own you is no reason to get pissy.
JCD has the gPhone nailed. Of course, I said all of this in a previous thread on this blog, but we already know JCD uses this place to cull ideas. I don’t blame him.