And if I do root it, that’s not the same as “jailbreaking” – I’m still getting a replacement gratis if the phone.

Personally, I enjoy doing business with companies that don’t require me to trust them. Faith is for friends and spouses and Jesus, not corporations.

Oh and I can MMS pics to my kids’ dumb phones with my Android phone, no trust in, hope for, or charity toward Google required on my part. I just can, right now.

And if I do root it, that’s not the same as “jailbreaking” – I’m still getting a replacement gratis if the phone.

Personally, I enjoy doing business with companies that don’t require me to trust them. Faith is for friends and spouses and Jesus, not corporations.

Oh and I can MMS pics to my kids’ dumb phones with my Android phone, no trust in, hope for, or charity toward Google required on my part. I just can, right now.

Which is pretty much what antitrust law was invented for.

Which is pretty much what antitrust law was invented for.

“Apple is conspiring with Google to force the FCC to “force” Apple to, regrettably, open the door to VoIP and the Universal Inbox. ” – Steve Gillmor

Interesting thoughts/sounds bytes..

“Apple is conspiring with Google to force the FCC to “force” Apple to, regrettably, open the door to VoIP and the Universal Inbox. ” – Steve Gillmor

Interesting thoughts/sounds bytes..

Do you really think some person is able to endure the boredom of actually reading your email? Google is about algorithms and execution. Your email is filtered through algorithms to attempt to provide a better result for advertisers and present ads that have a better chance of actually being useful to you. You can choose to ignore the ads. In any case they pay for your email service.

Since it does (apparently) matter to you that your email was being examined by Google’s algorithms for commercial reasons, you should know that it is still being examined by conceivably more insidious organizations (NSA and other national intelligence organizations with global ambitions). When you use (unencrypted) email, you are using the equivalent of post cards for communication. But in this case it isn’t your friendly neighborhood postman who can scan your messages. If you care then encrypt, but frankly, almost nobody does.

The GoogleBooks incident is about books that have been long abandoned by publishers (long out of print and available only at research libraries) who are only interested now that someone has done the work to possibly make them available and useful again. A project in which those parties showed no interest until Google’s work and Congress’s and the Court’s decision to create perpetual copyright made it a simple matter of forcing expensive litigation.

Your comment about Palm Pre and Apple is nonsense. Apple does supply public API’s for individuals and companies to use. People who use those are usually treated well. If you reverse engineer and hack into software and systems then the results are almost always ephemeral. That reality is common to Apple, Microsoft, Palm or any other organization that supports public API’s. To pretend otherwise is dumb, playing dumb, or possibly naive.

Do you really think some person is able to endure the boredom of actually reading your email? Google is about algorithms and execution. Your email is filtered through algorithms to attempt to provide a better result for advertisers and present ads that have a better chance of actually being useful to you. You can choose to ignore the ads. In any case they pay for your email service.

Since it does (apparently) matter to you that your email was being examined by Google’s algorithms for commercial reasons, you should know that it is still being examined by conceivably more insidious organizations (NSA and other national intelligence organizations with global ambitions). When you use (unencrypted) email, you are using the equivalent of post cards for communication. But in this case it isn’t your friendly neighborhood postman who can scan your messages. If you care then encrypt, but frankly, almost nobody does.

The GoogleBooks incident is about books that have been long abandoned by publishers (long out of print and available only at research libraries) who are only interested now that someone has done the work to possibly make them available and useful again. A project in which those parties showed no interest until Google’s work and Congress’s and the Court’s decision to create perpetual copyright made it a simple matter of forcing expensive litigation.

Your comment about Palm Pre and Apple is nonsense. Apple does supply public API’s for individuals and companies to use. People who use those are usually treated well. If you reverse engineer and hack into software and systems then the results are almost always ephemeral. That reality is common to Apple, Microsoft, Palm or any other organization that supports public API’s. To pretend otherwise is dumb, playing dumb, or possibly naive.

Works for me.

Works for me.