Now if only the giants would see this as a reason to innovate and increase competition and lower costs. We haven't quite gotten there yet.

I'm entrenched in IT and I'd rather be doing anything else on certain days... :)

I still haven't gotten a blue screen of death using any of Google's products. Until then I'd say the answer is no.

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FYI - I was trying to get an answer on this one and found this reference. A Google gears Widget present in Chrome will synchronize your drive for offline viewing.
http://www.karthikk.net/2012/04/how-to-access-google-drive-without-internet-on-your-windows-or-mac-machine-google-drive-howto/

Although I'm still trying to figure out why I'm letting other people's insecurity affect my judgement on the purpose of cloud storage and the value of free.

I hate even more that I've paid so much money for all the content I've gotten from slashdot over the years... nope wait.
I hate even more that it's the only website that I can read to get news... nope.
I hate even more that I've posted this response at all... yep.

This may be a bit off topic but I'm feelin a little ranty.

I look back at early 2010 and I recall that RIM was still selling their wares and convincing people that the BES model made sense. As other's have posted - definitely made sense when smart phones weren't sporting the "power" of fully functioning "computers" yet.

What I recall is that the iphone wasn't really competing with BB because the guys I saw with BB phones were the ones that had it "assigned" to them - most of them didn't ask for a smart phone or even know what they needed it for. They had a laptop and VPN access if they needed to get their email anyway. It was really just seen as a real-time email delivery device. Conversely the iphone users were definitely not getting the phone primarily as an email delivery device.

Then the Android phones start coming out and they basically do everything that the iphone can do without the appstore/market quite there yet. But you had a superior email experience, web browsing experience, a built in standard turn by turn GPS (which is always underrated), contact sync, etc. at a lower cost than an iphone. So it became less about what you needed a smartphone for and more about why would wouldn't choose a smartphone over a feature phone the next time the budget cycle comes around. Why as an administrator would I choose to "carry" the BES server and all that (what I consider to be "legacy") crap. When I could just suggest that people go with an apple or google phone.

I'd be furious about this whole thing if I was a RIM stockholder or board member. They had name synonymous with smart phone and they wasted it by not innovating. Don't even get me started on Microsoft and their phones. I really do see the two companies as being different but the same here.

I am pretty surprised that siri is not fully implemented on this device. it is only being used for dictation

Not suggesting that this would benefit apple. But for me what's preventing me from buying apple has always been cost. Secondary has been the closed ecosystem. Really wish they took the lead in the industry and made appstores interoperable. Just more of the same. Can't help but relate it to the battle for the desktop that they lost to windows back in the day.

Out of date and biased. Would prefer more technical details as well - seems very generic in certain areas. Boo.

I also transferred my domains to Namecheap this week. I was happy to leave Godaddy not only because of the SOPA mess but because their interface is garbage anyway. Namecheap feels like a more modern approach to services both from a design and marketing perspective. I don't need my registrar to be flashy - just be easy to use, communicate well, and be competitive. Namecheap definitely has already won me over and I expect to stay there for many years.

They are advanced multipurpose computers with 4" touchscreens.

"phones" pshhh

We've seen prices crash in many media markets due to increased availability and competition due to the increased deployment of broadband.
But the cable/satellite industry is apparently still recouping their costs of infrastructure that was deployed and payed for over and over again by subscribers with very little options.
I'd like to know that with an increase in the amount of available sources for entertainment that standard television will be coming down in price - but it just doesn't seem that way.
The price for cable subscriptions is absolutely ridiculous considering the entire industry is not open.

Sorry I'd prefer to spend more time with this one - I've seen a big rant on CNN.com recently about the same thing and all I can think of is... What ISNT broke about television?

They've been dancing around this for years now with their anti-malware products. I fail to see how supporting a user's ability to use the operating system through secure patching is any different from providing protection against virus and malware attacks.

I'm a fan of VMware but clearly any competition - and specifically, the more robust the competition gets the better the pricing models will be for the end users.

Right now we have very little if any issues with our virtual infrastructure - although View could use some work (we're still on 4.0 though...). VMware's support is excellent. Their tools are excellent. Their online documentation is excellent. Other than $ there wouldn't be a lot of motivation to start shopping for another vendor anytime soon.

But I also trust and expect that VMware will continue to be cutting edge in the VM sphere since it's the focus of their business (vs. Microsoft - who's focus is who the hell knows these days).

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Anyone have any insight into why Nokia went with WP7 instead of riding the Android bandwagon? Wouldn't Moto be it's only "classic" competitor in the Android phone market?

Hmmph.