Good Data is just that.. and it can make solid predictions. It's clear transparency is good for markets (e.g., stock markets, Etc.) but is it good for people? My own take is data mining and tracking isn't evil; if you do business with a company you should assume, for better or worse, that they will try to understand and learn about you. If you don't wish that to happen, you need to pay in cash, not give them your zip code and avoid reward clubs, etc.
Exactly... Twitter can't have it both ways but are clearly trying..
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Yes, let's add a Shill Factor Mod... that would be reputation capital in action..
While they could care about phones, I agree they care more about tablets and the XBox (the only ray of light in the quiver of tech arrows..). The bottom line is many of the devices with ARM will be subsidized and as Daengbo (and others note), you don't want someone changing the OS on hardware that you subsidized.
They can huff and puff as much as they want but this is about maintaining the monetization ecosystem of subsidized devices, otherwise you could give the user the key(s) to their device(s).
From the article it seems that one thing that we "just have to discover.. " we know it will be good at some applications but only actual use/engineering will fill in all the blanks..
Anything that helps reduce the # of bad patents helps here.
The Bottomline is any start up in the tech sector is going to face so much pressure from patent holders it clearly had a chilling effect on real innovation.
In the bad old days of computing you needed to put code into escrow if you lic'd it to insure that you had access to it in the event of a bankruptcy or the company just closing down, etc. With commercial products that also release to an open source project like Android there isn't as great a need, perhaps no need.
I think the bottom line here is that in the short, med and prob. long term it's not in Google's interests to play favorites and if they do Samsung and HTC (among others) have the resources to Fork Android continue on that path free from Google. They can do this at any time.. and I think that puts reasonable pressure on Google to behave
In terms of MSFT and Mango and future releases one has to not only consider the quality of the OS but also the cost of any licensing fees as well as it's popularity in the market place, it's performance, etc. Then even if MS doesn't buy Nokia there is certainly a tight relationship there and MSFT can certainly play favorites perhaps more easily than Google can.
Open Protocols for Social Media would be very helpful..
Think along the lines of Diaspora and Google+ but within a military context, where each command/outfit, etc. needs to own it's own data, various aspects of data needs to shared (nor not shared) based on a firm but flexible set of permissions and you have a fairly ideal way of allowing modern war fighting use social tools; all of those still on secure networks but having a wide range of secure sharing. This could include pushing data out to non secure networks from civilian to governmental (e.g, congress, white house, etc.) and NGOs or pushing data to other secure networks (e.g., CIA, NSA, etc.).
Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid. -- Mark Twain