My place has switched from "open plan" to "open plan with hotdesking".
A cube?
The same cube every day, where you can leave stuff?
I'd take that!

Those greenhorn fools should have realized that Due Diligence means running the acquisition past some AC on a message board.

Those two are not technically software companies.

Apple is a hardware company that makes great software.

Google is an advertising company that makes great software.

Microsoft is a software company that makes shabby software.

If it wasn't for that "low budget shit", you would still have a half-assed notification system. Stop pretending it isn't a two way street. Competition pressures the vendors and benefits the consumers. This is great for everyone, except dumbass fanbois.

Thanks.... interesting link. I had a few pairs of ER4P's. Fantastic sound, but I found the build quality was no match for my daily use (wire would eventually fracture - mono no fun). I got sick of replacing them at such high cost, and found that Klipsch X1's gave me 60-70% of the fidelity at a fraction of the cost... so no biggie getting replacements from Amazon if something broke.

'Consider the Kindle Fire example: Just like Amazon picked the Android lock, Samsung could grab the Android Open Source code and create its own unlicensed but fully legal smartphone OS and still benefit from a portion of Android apps, or it could build its own app store the way Amazon did,'

I wouldn't call forking an Open Source project "picking the lock".

The Kindle Fire has no camera, GPS, or core Google apps (Maps, Gmail, Talk, Voice, Google+, etc)

Samsung's success has been through shipping flagship devices, not crippled ones at rock bottom prices.

No, you'd have 15 minutes to take a sip and decide whether you want an unconditional refund for the coffee.

Uh, I think you mean 'aides'.

Absolutely.
Just looked at the Motorola site. They have 24,500 patents granted and pending in 2G, 3G, 4G, H.264, MPEG-4, 802.11, NFC.

With the codec ones, there could be some benefit for WebM too....

These comparisons might be of interest...

It's worth noting that companies like VMware are working on virtualization technology for Android. This would allow handsets to switch between work and home OS images, allowing consumer handsets to be used during work time as secure corporate handsets.

It's possible this could become attractive to the enterprise... no BES, and you can repurpose equipment the employee already owns.