Rebuttal Archive

  • Verizon makes the Droid X official a few days earlier than expected

    Verizon makes the Droid X official a few days earlier than expected

    The Android arena is a tough one to play in, man. One manufacturer might have the baddest handset on the block one week, only to have the competition release a superior monster-of-a-phone a week later. The rate at which these things are being cranked out doesn’t give the carriers — or their customer — any [...]

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  • A rebuttal, in which Chrome OS is praised, and no disparaging remarks are made

    A rebuttal, in which Chrome OS is praised, and no disparaging remarks are made

    google-chromeJohn pooh poohs Google Chrome OS, just like he pooh poohed the Palm Pre. John's a smart guy, and has some good insights into the technology world. But on the issue of Google Chrome OS, I think he's wrong. Google isn't in the operating system market, it's in the software services market. The easier Google can make it to get to their hosted applications, the more customers they'll have. To paraphrase Larry Ellison's famous quote, "the web is the operating system".

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