Licensing for 3G and 2G and other cell phone chip hardware is expensive.

Also, you have to add additional interfaces (SIM card interface, internal antenna, etc) that increase the cost of delivery and design.

I have 3 Android devices and all of them do a fairly good job of rendering websites for "Mobile" display. In fact, I am currently working on porting my Wordpress sites to a mobile friendly auto-switching theme bases on visits from mobile devices.

Just because it's laptop shaped doesn't mean it will display websites like a full PC would. It'll display mobile versions, which are still perfect for that resolution.

I just want Cyanogen to make a mod for this sucker.

The minute someone puts Ben Bernanke on a "Person of the _____" list as a choice, the list is invalidated. Bernanke, like Greenspan, created policy that causes recessions and depressions and then makes them worse.

I can't understand why people continue to give any credibility to these deadpulp periodicals and their online offspring.

...the mouthpiece for the State clamoring for MORE State control.

Shocking.

I've worked pretty hard to pull away from the mainstream dead-pulp press sites unless they offer a variety of features I think are necessary:

1. No login, but if I do voluntarily create an account, I should get some advantages (targeted ads would be nice, like Facebook where I can vote on ads)
2. Comments. If the deadpulpsters don't want my input, I don't want theirs.
3. Reasonable variety of facts over what the AP and other wires vomit. Originality counts, even if I disagree with it.

Yet there's another short-rule I follow: if they're going to put up ads that make no sense, I will generally back off of their site. I don't use adblock because I am WILLING to visit advertisers of the blogs and news-sites I read, if the ads are relevant. But if it's "Rachel Ray lost 40 lbs using this diet" or "Find out more about acai" or "Quit smoking today with a vaporizer" then I'm pretty much done with that site.

The ad desks need to accept LESS money from advertisers in exchange for ads that are actually relevant. Why can't these companies offer real-time advertising on a per-article basis? That way, Mike Flower Shop can advertise on the poinsettia article, and Subaru can advertise on the article about Saab going under.

It isn't Google who is killing these papers, it is their lack of advertisers who actually matter to the readers. Heck, I have no problem giving away my information when I register (voluntarily) for an account. My age, my sex, my income, my general location -- that way, advertisers can target me at those sites, and maybe I'll even buy.

For what it's worth, I advertise for some of my businesses on Facebook. I pick the keywords, the sex, the age and more, and my ad conversion rate is pretty high (I pay about $4 per new buying customer, on average). It costs me $100 to get a new client through other means (direct mail, even referrals that require me to spend time winning the new customer). Facebook has it right, even if a lot of their ads are shady (I can dislike them, thumbs down). It's time for the deadpulp media to do the same thing, or even turn their advertising over to another venture who will shut down the diet, anti-smoking and cleaner skin spammers.

Yelp gets amazing ranking on all of the search engines, and it also has a huge user base of people who are happy to offer reviews for free. Google wants both of these: high page rank that can drive advertising income, and users who are dumb enough to post reviews for free.

A Yelp killer would give the top moderated reviewers a piece of the pie.

If the content is fantastic, there will be large scale contributors.

http://mises.org/ has no advertising that I've noticed. They have some million-dollar contributors.

I have a newsletter site that is free, with no ads, and I have some contributors that offer me a few hundred a year. I don't even openly ask for it (there's a link to contributing that just says "Contribute."). If the content is good, the money will still come in.

Umm, we pretty much are at 20% unemployment:

http://www.cnbc.com/id/34040009

17.5%. And getting closer every day. The stimulus spending is stealing future wealth to produce fake wealth today. It's stealing real savings today (which creates real wealth and investment) to produce fake wealth tomorrow.

...sort of off-topic, but something I mention to my geek friends out of work: the black market of crime has endless jobs available for you.

Go into any barbershop in a shadier part of town and while you're getting a fantastic $12 haircut, mention to the oldest barber that you are working on security consulting to help people avoid getting into trouble with the law, especially in regards to keeping phone calls and information private.

At $150 a pop to "consult" with a man in a nice suit, you can easily remind him that his phone and laptop aren't secure, even offer him advice on what he can do and what he can buy to keep his tracks concealed better.

In reality, though, wiretaps aren't as important as having a good crew under you. A large percentage of black market consultants find themselves in jail because of the stool pigeon, not because of the wiretap information.

Citations are here:

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/37540.html
http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/38439.html
http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/38040.html

She's a shill, just like Beck is. No difference here, other than he likes to incite his listeners, and Maddow likes to make them think they're smart by pretending to be logical.

+1 on this.

My G1 runs incredibly well and consistently with CM + Enoch. I can't believe what a difference it is from my corporate phone (identical G1 but running T-Mobile's latest ROM).

Just a reminder: Google and Android are not affiliated in any way any longer except that Google is a member of the Open Handset Alliance (OHA).

Google bought Android the company, developed Android the OS, then spun it off under control of the OHA, in which they are one participating member.

When a phone company develops hardware using Android, the operating system is open source/freely available. They can customize it. But if they want to bundle applications on it, say Google Maps, they have to license those apps from Google. Android is not Google, Google is not Android.

For what it's worth, I run a G1 with Cyanogen's latest mod. I have no Google apps that I care about anymore.

Having an organization that is bureaucratic instead of market driven is going to cause the biggest issues. Today, we still are wasting a significant portion of bandwidth on broadcasting when the future is point to point communications along with some form of P2P crowdcasting. Get rid of the public airwaves and work on letting the market come up with standards -- frequency hopping software radios, hive networks, whatever. It'll be more efficient, cheaper, and it'll provide for much more competition.

Broadcasting is dying.

I think you should define analyze as anal-yze or pulling things out of your ass.

Your numbers are so far from the truth and reality that there is absolutely no way to even debate it. I wouldn't know where to start.

Who pays for marketing? Who pays for product placement? How about bundling? Where does the money come from to support the author while they write?

This is garbage.