11-01-2012, 12:38 AM | #136 |
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What? Who could be so devious and cunning as to have multiple monickers?
I saw a movie once where this "spirit" could hop from person to person While it was in a person, it had total control and they never even remembered what happened when it left again. |
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Yesterday two ladies with Watchtower in their hands knocked on my door and asked; "Do you struggle with life's BIG questions?"
"I do, I do, I can't commit to either Apple nor Android." She smiled vainly, shook her head and admitted that not even The Book had any answers to provide. |
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I don't commit, Period.
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To judge by all the eye-rolling and tut-tutting that went on when I noticed this, you'd think people don't know how to read.
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The correction I would make is that the Nexus devices are not targeting the population that rejected Apple's strategy. Samsung's Galaxy and HTCs EVOs do that. The Nexus models have always been positioned as Google's most direct competitors to Apple, which is probably a main reason why they are not the best selling Android devices. Or at least, the phones have not been in the past. |
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They made that intention clear when they let the word out that they were doing a "premium" 10incher. Similarly, consumers freely choose to submit to that kind of strategy. Or not. It's *their* money and neither Apple nor Google has kneecappers running around to enforce their pricing schemes. (Unlike certain BPHs who shall remain nameless until found guilty in federal court for exactly that, among other things.) It's all about appealing to different customers. The problems only appear when people delude themselves into thinking everybody is like them. (Recent DNA studies indicate we're pretty much *all* of us mutants. Nobody is really like anybody else.) http://www.sciencenews.org/view/gene...arities_abound Quote:
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"No authopsy, no foul." I wouldn't have put the smiley in the reply if I'd taken it as a personal attack. In fact, I wouldn't have even replied directly. So we're cool there. For the record (and newcomers), I was merely answering the question of why Google would choose to do limited-storage devices. The answer is to me clear that they do it because there is more money to be made that way. (And that *is* the name of the game. Android is no corporate hobby.) With Apple setting the example, as long as they find enough people willing to go along, they'll be golden. The rest of us will have to "make do" with NookHD, Surface, the Win8Tabs and the assorted expandable android devices. "It's not personal; it's just business." |
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