Comments by Q dub

Umm…this is a good thing in a weird way. It’d be a very very bad sign if Comcast’s own streams were excluded from the cap, which meant that they would most _certainly_ lower or freeze the cap where it is. At least now, they have to raise the cap over time to match their own video customers’ consumption pattern.

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Think there’s a really simple explanation for this: iPhone apps are skewed towards games, which characteristically have lower retention. Not exactly a indicative of the quality of the app library nor of the loyalty of the user base.

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HTML is going to become quite powerful…what is really happening is that the browser is becoming both a page viewer and an application-runtime.

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To put it simply, Apple should make a TV because TVs are making the transition into computing devices, identical to the trend with cellphones.

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Lets ignore if it's OpenID or Facebook Connect for a moment. I just love the idea that the user's identity should be an attribute of the browser window, not an content state entirely invisible to the browser. I'd argue this same profile state should be used to determine which browser extensions to activate and browser configs.

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Spring uses the same *technology* as Verizon does, not the same network. And as for the truth about who has the best netowrk, capex #s don’t lie =)

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“What you’re doing” didn’t work on Twitter because it’s not something one broadcasts to followers. Where it *is* useful, is appended to location data (like Latitude does) because “What you’re doing” follows closely “Where you’re at”. So I think not being location-centric is a pretty big draw back…

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Dude, nobody here is saying we should stop testing controversial theories. What I did say is: if our best guess is that global warming is man-made, and we’re pretty confident about it, why not act accordingly? And if tomorrow some shrewd scientist manages to conclusively prove this wrong, then great! I’ll flip my opinion and buy a hummer. Sure, we’d have wasted a shit ton of resources fighting carbon emissions, but if you don’t act on your best guess, what would you do? Act on your 2nd best guess?

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Kevin:

What makes you think it hasn’t been challenged? Its not like one scientist came up with the idea and before you know it, everybody’s on the boat. Awareness of this problem is many years in the making and it *has* been challenged, many times. But what do you make of the fact that the sources of dissent today rarely comes from scientists, but politicians and media?

Could the science behind global warming prove wrong in the next decade? Yes! Absolutely, but the data points otherwise: “You could be wrong!” is not an argument, its a painfully obvious fact. “You’re wrong and here’s why: ” — now that’s a real rebuttal.

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Great point Charlie. And this wouldn’t be Apple’s first CDMA phone, the iPhone in Japan is essentially a CDMA phone…so clearly they’re their willing to fork the hardware for a big enough market.

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Hey Kevin,

I think everybody knows science is just an educated guess, but the point is, if our “best educated guess” points to A, why on earth would you believe in B?

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First of all, iPhone in Japan and Korea are already CDMA (despite being a weird flavor of CDMA) devices because there is no GSM in those countries.

Secondly, CDMA is not a crap technology. In fact, all phones today are more or less CDMA…just that the GSM flavor of it (W-CDMA) doesn’t pay royalties to Qualcomm.

Finally, when a carrier says “they’ll have LTE in 2010″, that means they’ll have it in their most important markets, so any LTE phone released in 2010 will most certainly need to be backward compatible and won’t really deliver that 4G experience all of the time…if at all if you live in a tier-2 city.

I think the biggest hurdle to seeing an iPhone on Verizon is their culture of control. They are worst when it comes to crippling device/application functionality and having an iPhone stipulates a lot more openness than what they’re used to.

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First of all, iPhone in Japan and Korea are already CDMA (despite being a weird flavor of CDMA) devices because there is no GSM in those countries.

Secondly, CDMA is not a crap technology. In fact, all phones today are more or less CDMA…just that the GSM flavor of it (W-CDMA) doesn’t pay royalties to Qualcomm.

Finally, when a carrier says “they’ll have LTE in 2010″, that means they’ll have it in their most important markets, so any LTE phone released in 2010 will most certainly need to be backward compatible and won’t really deliver that 4G experience all of the time…if at all if you live in a tier-2 city.

I think the biggest hurdle to seeing an iPhone on Verizon is their culture of control. They are worst when it comes to crippling device/application functionality and having an iPhone stipulates a lot more openness than what they’re used to.

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Have this on my BBbold, love it.

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If demand is infinite, then you should *definitely* charge more! I don’t see any problem with this, the spread difference between new and old songs is still much tighter than brand new DVDs vs bargain bin at your local BestBuy.

That being said, while hot new music is less price elastic, its also abundantly easier to pirate. If I were them, I’d spend time coming up with an algorithm for *rareness* and price that stuff up.

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