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by ergo98 16y ago
I think it's clear that there is a market for iPad like devices. Of course there is, as the market has clearly shown. I suspect that there will be a market for 5", 7", 10", 12", and so on tablets. Consumer choice is good. Yet your post se
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by ergo98 16y ago
Android does natively support quite decent resizing, so it isn't quite as bad as the 2x mode. While a slicker, more polished interface will do wonders, I do suspect that a lot of the returns right now are still network effect issues: People
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by ergo98 16y ago
From my understanding Apple spent a lot of time getting the form factor right for the iPad. A lot of thought went into ensuring the OS was adequate for the device. The device is too big and too heavy. The OS far from optimal for the devic
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by ergo98 16y ago
At home I find that even with multiple traditional computers, I resort to using my smartphone for convenience and enjoyment reasons a lot . Little things like looking up a movie review, pulling up a phone number, or to answer questions lik
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by ergo98 16y ago
"Ordinary consumers will not feel comfortable buying non-Apple tablets until they have a better idea what a tablet actually is and how to shop for one." Bizarre. The Tab hasn't sold well simply because it's not that great of a product (larg
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by ergo98 16y ago
>It is not a separate discussion, is THE discussion right here. "GAS" providers like TekSavvy are not DSLAM terminators -- they use Bell's final mile, plus their DSLAM, plus their Nexxia network, etc. THAT is how they are vulnerable t
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by ergo98 16y ago
Are you a time traveler from the past? You might have had a point a year ago. Now, sorry, your argument is tired and dated. People want something that can play a couple of games, access Facebook and Twitter, visit websites, etc. There is a
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by ergo98 16y ago
The electric generation system is actually a remarkably apt comparison because in most districts the cost of consumables is marginal. The real cost is in the capital expenditure needed for the system to supply a given load. Many of the same
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by ergo98 16y ago
What would be an interesting and insightful stat is to see what AT&T's handset breakdown is because you can expect that Verizon will follow a similar trend. Why would you expect that? AT&T not only was late to the Android party, t
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by ergo98 16y ago
Samsung knows the exact cpu specs for Apple's next gen iOS devices Samsung was a co-developer of the A4 chip, which they derived for their Hummingbird platform. You could as easily say that Apple knew what Samsung was up to.
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by ergo98 16y ago
along with the fact that Apple products have (almost) never beaten their competitors on spec sheets This is categorically untrue. The iPhone 3GS was a world above virtually every Android phone at the time. The iPhone 4, when released, did
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by ergo98 16y ago
Do you have any evidence that he's wrong, an argument why he's wrong, or even a different assertion of the facts? This is a futile discussion. It is an embarrassment for HN and, honestly, an embarrassment for the Canadian tech community
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by ergo98 16y ago
Arguing against "ridiculously overpriced internet access" is not bolstered by, pardon the expression, bullshit . 99% of what has been written here, and in the mirror ravings on Reddit, is just pure, unadulterated crap. It's factless nonsen
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by ergo98 16y ago
To say that this study doesn't support the broad conclusion is being generous.
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by ergo98 16y ago
The parent sits at 38 points while being almost entirely wrong. I want endless bandwidth as well, but this is absolutely the decline of this site, with "what I want" and "the way I present the world to support my bias" crowding out "what i
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by ergo98 16y ago
Yeah, that's the reason why. Just to be clear, Bell has been making their intentions clear for a long, long time. They were packet shaping "reseller" connectivity as long as two years ago. There ARE DSL providers that locate hardware in Bel
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by ergo98 16y ago
The reason we're having this debate is because twisted pair easily does 20MBit these days. Easily? Hardly. Over an absurdly short distance from the switching station, with perfect copper, as a tech trial sure. In the real world most ADSL
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by ergo98 16y ago
My anecdote was...anecdotal. Nonetheless Canada's broadband deployment rates are in the top quarter of the OECD, and it regularly ranks very well in bandwidth in the same comparisons. Empirically Canada isn't doing so terrible. Really? I w
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by ergo98 16y ago
So, again, what choice do they have? Twisted-pair sucks , actually, and Bell's monopoly is on dead technology. We only use it as a backup line in a worst case situation. We actually had a number of options, which is what we used for our
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by ergo98 16y ago
In the Cogent example, Bell is legally required to let Cogent use their loop for a low maintenance cost. That is not what this issue is about, and nothing about that has changed or will change. The case here is that these small ISPs are not
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by ergo98 16y ago
Your complaint seemed to be entirely based upon the difficulties in getting broadband in a sparsely populated area. And then some big telco coming in to try to undermine it. We've seen the same story again and again, over the globe. There i
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by ergo98 16y ago
>The telecommunications situation in Canada is terrible. Your complaint is that some rural area has poor service. Is that not the case around the globe ? I've had high-speed cable service since long before it was available in most urba
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by ergo98 16y ago
DDOS attacks are attacks on the very fabric of the internet. If you believe in the internet, you will not support those sorts of activities. This has a very real ramification for much of the subject matter of HN: The investment community ne
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by ergo98 16y ago
I suspect that most of these people had no realization that reality would come and bust in their door. There remains a widespread illusion of anonymity and invulnerability when it comes to the tubes.
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by ergo98 16y ago
While I do think you were confused when you wrote this (although even relative to sales it's questionable: Apple came along and decimated the entire field of J2ME devices), I would actually agree that relative to best device it is true. Why
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by ergo98 16y ago
True, I exaggerate. Again, Android is now mainstream. The iPhone is now mainstream. Any delusions that denizens of places like HN are the typical sort of buyer are terribly far off reality. The average buyer has no such desire to hoist th
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by ergo98 16y ago
...where 3.0 is the new tablet line and 2.4 is the next handset version of 2.3. There's nothing particularly confusing about that, and there's a logic. And at 4.0 they would likely merge.
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by ergo98 16y ago
It's a really schizophrenic strategy It's the same strategy that virtually every maker is following now. It's building out a platform, and its what you have to do to compete now. I get the impression that Honeycomb isn't going to be comi
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by ergo98 16y ago
You are missing the GP's point. No I'm not. I'm strongly disagreeing with that point. The consumer who walks out of the store with an iPhone could just as likely have walked out with a Galaxy S, and vice versa. The applications angle of A
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by ergo98 16y ago
the different demographics and psychology of android phone purchasers vs. iphone purchaser This maybe was true 6 months ago. It isn't true now. Android buyers today are the mainstream, many of whom are paying as much for their handset, an

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