ITV without the ads. How does that work then?
Microsoft are aiming for the Sky.
They have a privacy dick working on the case too.
You gotta laugh.
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Nope,
easy picking is what they want. No point in forging a deal with someone who currently thinks bigger than you.
The world is getting more competitive where both manufacturing and bricks and mortar outfits are made near bankrupt and then either enslaved or bought on the cheap.
They simply have no choice no the matter.
The problem for google is that on the whole, everyone pays them, not the other way round.
Apple's tax dodging is legendary and barely gets a mention but it is easy to work out why.
If Google had stayed just as an advertising agency it is, it would not have Microsoft and Apple as mortal combat enemies. When Microsoft and Apple get back to telling the consumer what they want without that Android spanner in the works then peace will reign.
the fact is that we keep getting headlined $99 and $199 smartphones which is a blatant lie.
t-mobile has simply been caught being innovative in the extremely low integrity sphere.
Sadly, I suspect those $99 headlines are chasing product promotion money making no integrity the norm.
Got to quite agree.
I'd also enforce a landline number for all 0845 type service numbers, especially the new NHS and police ones!!!!!!
Its as if we are now part scammed by the police and NHS. I guess it is all pseudo privatisation.
So rather than actually protecting the consumer they are resorting to posting health warning like stuff!
I know Cameron wanted them abolished but is this looks an even greasier solution.
Whilst Cameron might have looked like he was sticking 2 fingers up to the public, as Ofcom always seems to too, maybe he was right?
It just happens that there are some with value subtracted offerings.
So lock-in or no lock-in its best to buy what is of more useful value.
I doubt we lose the taste for sugary drinks as we get older, we simply wizen up to the fact that we get 5 cents value from $1 spent..
Apple are doing it exactly right.
They are buying up strategic enterprises with one proviso, that being Apple stays mostly below the radar .
The strategy is so far so good. There is simply no point in them spending big if that means they become a big monopoly instead of the worlds biggest cash earner.
There are 100's thousands of worthless apps they can buy the rights for, on both IOS and Android.
Which will be is more lucrative is very uncertain but OS/X stuff, by many accounts pays big dividends from very stupid people who think it just works.
"The cheapo hardware can't keep up with the demands of the software, we're told"
err That low end hardware is now faster than last years high end hardware.
All we need to know is that app developers do not get penalised for supporting old kit. This mobile revolution means they either want out stuff obsolete even faster that we had before or license it to us by the month!
So if you are lucky, 'There's an app for that' but for how long will it work?
Android currently means it lasts forever, unlike the others wit an app 'private club'.
"As soon as someone says things like Cr(apple) or similar in their posts they lose all credibility outside of the school yard."
Always hard to trace the origins but there's plenty of reviewer referring to plasticy things and ignoring the cracked glass and low quality or dropped calls caused by metal cladness.