Re: [FRIAM] Business opportunity

2013-02-18 Thread glen e. p. ropella
Owen Densmore wrote at 02/16/2013 09:34 AM: I don't want to be flame bait (oh well, maybe i do) .. I posted this on your blog post: I'm surprised anyone buys android phones at all. They're stuck between a rock and a hard place: If they buy from Google they have your well

Re: [FRIAM] Business opportunity

2013-02-18 Thread Douglas Roberts
Well, in the spirit of continuing to provide Troll bait: http://things-linux.blogspot.com/2013/02/google-and-nexus-4-users-report.html On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 12:20 PM, glen e. p. ropella g...@tempusdictum.comwrote: Owen Densmore wrote at 02/16/2013 09:34 AM: I don't want to be flame bait

Re: [FRIAM] Business opportunity

2013-02-18 Thread Owen Densmore
On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 12:20 PM, glen e. p. ropella g...@tempusdictum.comwrote: Owen Densmore wrote at 02/16/2013 09:34 AM: snip I've been quite happy with my Google Nexus, made by Samsung. And I was previously satsified, approaching, though not achieving happiness with my Motorola Droid 2

Re: [FRIAM] Business opportunity

2013-02-18 Thread glen e. p. ropella
Owen Densmore wrote at 02/18/2013 02:15 PM: Can you share the details of upgrading android without help from Google? .. could most customers do this? Yes, I think so. But you can't be afraid of breaking the phone. So, there's a distinction between _could_ and _would_. The hacking distance

Re: [FRIAM] Business opportunity

2013-02-18 Thread Russell Standish
On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 02:53:37PM -0800, glen e. p. ropella wrote: Owen Densmore wrote at 02/18/2013 02:15 PM: Can you share the details of upgrading android without help from Google? .. could most customers do this? The biggest problem is _fear_. The ROM makers pepper their sites

Re: [FRIAM] Business opportunity

2013-02-17 Thread Sarbajit Roy
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/01/25/144204/unlocking-new-mobile-phones-becomes-illegal-in-the-us-tomorrow On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 10:38 AM, Douglas Roberts d...@parrot-farm.netwrote: That is why an unlocked phone can be to your advantage. On Feb 16, 2013 10:06 PM, Russell Standish

Re: [FRIAM] Business opportunity

2013-02-16 Thread Owen Densmore
I don't want to be flame bait (oh well, maybe i do) .. I posted this on your blog post: I'm surprised anyone buys android phones at all. They're stuck between a rock and a hard place: If they buy from Google they have your well articulated problems. But if they get another handset mfgrs phone,

Re: [FRIAM] Business opportunity

2013-02-16 Thread Russell Standish
On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 10:34:39AM -0700, Owen Densmore wrote: I don't want to be flame bait (oh well, maybe i do) .. I posted this on your blog post: I'm surprised anyone buys android phones at all. They're stuck between a rock and a hard place: If they buy from Google they have your well

Re: [FRIAM] Business opportunity

2013-02-16 Thread Douglas Roberts
Android 1.6? Let me guess: you're also one of those running an ASCII email client, as well. I believe I see a pattern. (Message sent from my rooted, cyanogen modded Android 4.2.2 work-in-progress gorilla glass excuse for a phone). On Feb 16, 2013 9:35 PM, Russell Standish r.stand...@unsw.edu.au

Re: [FRIAM] Business opportunity

2013-02-16 Thread Russell Standish
The phone is just a touch over two years old. Even though my contract has expired, and the phone company has offered an upgrade, its only on the proviso that I change plans, which would see me losing roaming (a big deal in a country where mobile coverage it pretty ratshit out of the big cities).

Re: [FRIAM] Business opportunity

2013-02-16 Thread Douglas Roberts
That is why an unlocked phone can be to your advantage. On Feb 16, 2013 10:06 PM, Russell Standish r.stand...@unsw.edu.au wrote: The phone is just a touch over two years old. Even though my contract has expired, and the phone company has offered an upgrade, its only on the proviso that I

Re: [FRIAM] Business opportunity

2013-02-16 Thread Bruce Sherwood
Oh, for completeness I should say that my iPhone and Galaxy S3 are with ATT. On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 11:02 PM, Bruce Sherwood bruce.sherw...@gmail.comwrote: I've been very happy with my Galaxy S3 phone. At the time I bought it this summer, my iPhone had removed Google maps, which was a very

[FRIAM] Business opportunity

2013-02-15 Thread Douglas Roberts
Seriously. If I were one of those Chinese or Korean quick turn-around phone manufactures I'd jump all over this. What do you suppose the set up time for a new product line is for one of those factories? http://things-linux.blogspot.com/2013/02/opportunity-knocks.html I've seen quite a few hits

Re: [FRIAM] Business opportunity

2013-02-15 Thread Douglas Roberts
BTW, the English translation of that first micgadget article is a little amusing, but the gist of it is that the knock-off market is a fast growing one. This bit in particular was interesting: Surprisingly, Meizu, the company who well-known for copying Apple