BB was strong in Indonesia. It is just a matter of time before others catching up with the rest of the world. I believe they may survive if they focus on businesses and governments customers.

> Blackberry is the only major vendor serious about security and encryption.

They are serious about security or compression? I think it was latter. Compression was necessary to minimize data usage. Back in the days where GPRS was considered extremely FAST. They needed compression to make communication on their device bearable. I think security was an after thought. Just my opinion.

Having said that, a BB10 is not much different comparing to other smart phones in term of how it is retrieving webpages, emails, etc.

The reason why bad quality stuffs are coming out of China is because either consumers demand lower price stuffs or companies demand higher profit. If you want good quality stuffs, you got to pay higher. A vacuum cleaner used to cost me $500. I can't even find one that is more than $150 at wal-mart the last time I checked. Anyone thinks they could get away with selling their cheap quality products at high price quarter after quarter, year after year, they are delusional.

Why turn off auto join -- why not just turn off the wifi while you're at it. It saves battery too.

Apple probably uses a logic to generate the random mac address depending on time of day, etc. Unfortunately, while advertisers may not be able to track the owner of the phone that easy anymore, I'm sure the law enforcement has a copy of the logic to reverse engineer to find the owner of the phone. Having said that though, I'm sure the law enforcement has other tools at their disposal to track one down. I think the better solution is to use TASKER to disable automatically when leaving the home/workplace and re-enable it when entering home/workplace. It works surprisingly well. Ya, I'm aware that tasker does not run on IOS. The choice is still yours though -- android or not android.

For people like myself with accent:


me: ok google, please lower the temperature
google: yes sir, your car is shifted down to 2nd gear
me: no don't do that. I'm driving at 140kmph
google: yes sir, sit tight. the car will accelerate to 140mph
me: not mile per hour
google: sorry sir i don't understand
me: I gave up. stop listening to me
google: yes sir, I will stop the car now. Please ensure the seat belt is on. You're travelling at 140mph.
me: (me on the way to heaven) thank you google

How about battery swapping drones flying along major highway. If you need a sway, just wave at them.

It is a sad truth. NSA / USA government will only drive innovation underground or out of the country.

> since people usually only stream one video at a time, video traffic doesn't bog down or change the way we manage our network in any meaningful way
Ahem -- we had 7-8 people cramming into a 3 bedroom house during college time. Yes, we would have streamed only one video at a time per person.

Cool ... while my friend is still on the top tier 6mbps DSL connection, ahem.

Consumers lack of math skills to do simple math calculation. When they see initial cost of $600, no one would want to buy a phone. When they see $0 phone for $60 / month for 2 years, that becomes more chew-able even though the latter wouldn't make economical sense.

That reminds me of the blink html tag in the old days. Yes, I'm getting old.

Interpreting your own numbers: Q1 2013 22.9 Q2 2013 19.5 That is a drop of 14.8% Q1 2014 26 Q2 2014 16.35 That is a drop of 37.1% The rate has down more than double from Q1 to Q2 between 2013 and 2014. I am no financial analyst, judging my these rates, the fever is *not* officially cooling, but freezing cold to me. I don't hate AAPL -- I am not their target audience. As an investor, I do benefit from AAPL for continuing milking the uninformed. Cheers.

I still have two audrey in my house serving music for my kids and wife. I had them for more than 12 years. I don't think it will quit anytime soon.

Let me use my trust worthy excel (oh no) to calculate the future value of savings of $5K per year for 50 years at 5% interest rate, guess what, it is +$1M.