And if I do root it, that’s not the same as “jailbreaking” – I’m still getting a replacement gratis if the phone.

Personally, I enjoy doing business with companies that don’t require me to trust them. Faith is for friends and spouses and Jesus, not corporations.

Oh and I can MMS pics to my kids’ dumb phones with my Android phone, no trust in, hope for, or charity toward Google required on my part. I just can, right now.

Which is pretty much what antitrust law was invented for.

“Apple is conspiring with Google to force the FCC to “force” Apple to, regrettably, open the door to VoIP and the Universal Inbox. ” – Steve Gillmor

Interesting thoughts/sounds bytes..

Do you really think some person is able to endure the boredom of actually reading your email? Google is about algorithms and execution. Your email is filtered through algorithms to attempt to provide a better result for advertisers and present ads that have a better chance of actually being useful to you. You can choose to ignore the ads. In any case they pay for your email service.

Since it does (apparently) matter to you that your email was being examined by Google’s algorithms for commercial reasons, you should know that it is still being examined by conceivably more insidious organizations (NSA and other national intelligence organizations with global ambitions). When you use (unencrypted) email, you are using the equivalent of post cards for communication. But in this case it isn’t your friendly neighborhood postman who can scan your messages. If you care then encrypt, but frankly, almost nobody does.

The GoogleBooks incident is about books that have been long abandoned by publishers (long out of print and available only at research libraries) who are only interested now that someone has done the work to possibly make them available and useful again. A project in which those parties showed no interest until Google’s work and Congress’s and the Court’s decision to create perpetual copyright made it a simple matter of forcing expensive litigation.

Your comment about Palm Pre and Apple is nonsense. Apple does supply public API’s for individuals and companies to use. People who use those are usually treated well. If you reverse engineer and hack into software and systems then the results are almost always ephemeral. That reality is common to Apple, Microsoft, Palm or any other organization that supports public API’s. To pretend otherwise is dumb, playing dumb, or possibly naive.

Works for me.

In order to create the appropriate conditions for a credible alternative that brings another carrier into compliance with the disruption. Once there are two carriers offering similar services, the other carriers and vendors are working in concert to morph the industry to the new paradigm.

Google doesn’t have to target ads that read your messages’ contents to generate ad revenue in Gmail. It can still plaster ads all over its interface without having to peak through your messages. I once sent a message from Gmail to a Chinese friends. My gmail account was plastered with ads in Chinese characters. That was creepy and one of the reasons I stopped using their service.

The copyrights’ violations accusation comes from no less than various newspapers, book publishers and writers’ industry associations and representatives. GoogleBooks copying books and putting their contents online without first securing any authorization is not an accusation by groups for a quick cash grabs. It’s a means to protect their intellectual property which Google violates freely because it thinks it’s justified to archive the world’s information and tag some stupid context sensitive ad on top of it.

The question about Apple refusing the Palm Pre access to iTunes is about the very open standards and consumer options the author of this article argued Apple was fighting for. Therefore, if Apple is fighting for open standards, why does it shut access to its own platform to competitors, when it suits its purpose?

Again there is no logic in the article above or any of your own comments.

After 192 days Apple has finally rejected SpoofApp.

“We’ve reviewed SpoofApp and determined that we cannot post this version of your iPhone application to the App Store at this time because it allows users to anonymously make calls and/or wrongly identifies the caller ID of the phone (known as Caller ID spoofing). We have chosen to not publish this type of application to the App Store.” – iPhone Developer Program

Android is a very powerfull thing…….

But Apple does make money off of all phases of the iPhone-hardware sales, app sales, iTunes sales, movies, TV shows, made-for-iPhone peripherals and even a bigger than normal cut of retail through its own Apple stores.
No one else has figured how to do that yet.

Apple could sell the iPhone unlocked and untethered to AT&T and still be reeling in ungodly profit growth.

Providing email service is not a free endeavor, especially to a huge and ever increasing number of people. Google has always been candid about how they provide targeted ads based on email content. That is how they generate revenue to provide the service. If you don’t approve of the deal then go elsewhere. No one is forcing you to use gmail.

Someone sees an opportunity to extract money from a company with deep pockets by making accusations about copyright violation? Say it ain’t so! Oh, how can the world be so cynical? For reference you should check the differences between accusations and successful prosecution.

“Apple banning the Palm Pre from iTunes”. iTunes is software owned and developed by Apple, not a public utility. By what convoluted thought process does one conclude that Apple has an obligation to provide software and service for a competitor? Palm should be creating new and better software for utilizing their product.

I don’t know what Apple’s contract with AT&T specifies for revenue sharing so unlike others I won’t pretend to know.

The carriers will need help from the government to stop this. There will be a lot of money flowing through the hands of telecom lobbyists.

Apple will not be able to do anything but watch their mobile OS functionality become more and more irrelevant, just like Windows on the desktop. Jobs will retreat into iTunes and setup defenses to continue his ideological battle there.

Apple doesn’t need $T. In fact, $T has been causing $APPL quite a lot of embarrassment, compared to carriers outside of North America.

In fact, after years of negligence, and AT&T not learning their anti-trust lessons from last time this is the perfect time for the FCC to become Apple and Google’s catspaw.

Whatever comes of the Apple-Google-ATT thing, the FCC needs to get more sophisticated with the ‘net, user privacy and anti-trust in this area — only one way to do that, get your hands dirty.

1-How does Gilmor explains Apple banning the Palm Pre from iTunes?

2-What about the fact that Google is the largest collector of personal data and has been accused by many groups to violate their copyrights?

3-What about the fact that Apple gets a share of every dollar users make when they dial a phone call from their iPhones, unlike other cell phone providers?

4-What about the fact that Google through its free programs, routinely violates the privacy of users and targets them with advertisements based on the contents of their emails, for example?

If people are looking for corporate heroes to rescue them, they should look elsewhere.