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January 29, 2014 at 2:30 PM #20941January 29, 2014 at 3:03 PM #770319
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ParticipantQCOM retraced some of its loss in the last five days. Fecesbook will do well until companies realize that users don’t actually look at the ads on there. They’ve all but acknowledged that they have problems with people actually noticing ads, hence their forced video play feature (fortunately easy to disable).
Seriously couldn’t remember ANY ads that were displayed on Facebook if you asked me.
Update: looked at the ‘book and it’s showing an ad attempting to sell me a NYC phone # for $29/mo. Seems expensive for something you can get through Verizon, transfer to Google Voice for free, and not pay a dime monthly.
As far as Google selling Motorola Mobility, I’m surprised. Didn’t they just acquire it two years ago? Guessing that Google is realizing that they’re not a hardware company and that Lenovo is a better fit to own a HW firm. Hope that manufacturing operations in the US continue even under the new owner.
January 29, 2014 at 3:03 PM #770320The-Shoveler
ParticipantI Still don’t have a FB account.
I figure soon no one will know I ever existed.
January 29, 2014 at 3:21 PM #770321
CoronitaParticipantWow. FB is $60/share AH.. I wish I bought some a few days ago. Almost pulled the trigger….
My relative is making a killing on it….
January 29, 2014 at 3:27 PM #770324ParticipantNah, you should have bought BBRY at $6 a share last month 🙂
January 29, 2014 at 3:31 PM #770325CoronitaParticipant[quote=spdrun]Nah, you should have bought BBRY at $6 a share last month :)[/quote]
I don’t like to speculate frankly on highly speculative things…
January 29, 2014 at 3:38 PM #770327ParticipantI wouldn’t call it speculative. Great brand recognition, excellent UI for when you want a communication device rather than a toy, excellent remote management tools, serious end-to-end crypto built in, and ability to run Android apps. And (for some reason) an FM radio built in 🙂
Buy when the lemmings are selling. Also, I’ve always had a bit of a soft spot for the firm and would like them to get their crap together and give the Big Three a run for their money again.
January 29, 2014 at 3:50 PM #770328CoronitaParticipant[quote=spdrun]I wouldn’t call it speculative. Great brand recognition, excellent UI for when you want a communication device rather than a toy, excellent remote management tools, serious end-to-end crypto built in, and ability to run Android apps. And (for some reason) an FM radio built in 🙂
Buy when the lemmings are selling. Also, I’ve always had a bit of a soft spot for the firm and would like them to get their crap together and give the Big Three a run for their money again.[/quote]
if you say so.. I can’t say I agree with you being in the business, I just can’t get myself around a BB phone these days..
January 29, 2014 at 3:56 PM #770330an
ParticipantGOOG bought MOT for their patents. Those of us who are in the industry assume that GOOG had no intention of holding onto MOT hardware division for very long. Which is why they sold off the connected home division of MOT pretty quickly.
January 29, 2014 at 3:58 PM #770331Participant[quote=spdrun]I wouldn’t call it speculative. Great brand recognition, excellent UI for when you want a communication device rather than a toy, excellent remote management tools, serious end-to-end crypto built in, and ability to run Android apps. And (for some reason) an FM radio built in 🙂
Buy when the lemmings are selling. Also, I’ve always had a bit of a soft spot for the firm and would like them to get their crap together and give the Big Three a run for their money again.[/quote]
BBRY, seriously? Yeah, good luck w/ that. I’m surprised BBRY isn’t dead yet.January 29, 2014 at 4:01 PM #770334Participantif you say so.. I can’t say I agree with you being in the business, I just can’t get myself around a BB phone these days..
Have you played with a 10.2.1 beta device?
January 29, 2014 at 4:02 PM #770333CoronitaParticipant[quote=AN]GOOG bought MOT for their patents. Those of us who are in the industry assume that GOOG had no intention of holding onto MOT hardware division for very long. Which is why they sold off the connected home division of MOT pretty quickly.[/quote]
I figured that once the Nexus line refreshes recently still consisted of the Samsung, Acer, LG instead of any Motorola product…
It’s actually sad. It must have been frustrating to have been at Motorola’s handset/tablet division and been treated like a stepchild… I actually liked Mot products and was hoping they were actually do something with it.. But I guess that would have terrified all the other OEM’s and cause them to cut producing android products…
January 29, 2014 at 4:03 PM #770335CoronitaParticipant[quote=spdrun]
if you say so.. I can’t say I agree with you being in the business, I just can’t get myself around a BB phone these days..
Have you played with a 10.2.1 beta device?[/quote]
Nope…. For me the dwindling market share doesn’t justify my spending time with it no matter how good the actual hardware/software is…That’s BBRY’s problem….when developers abandon the ego-system…
January 29, 2014 at 4:07 PM #770336Participant^^^
Which has been essentially solved with the official ability to sideload Android .apks. (Which may also discourage native development, but that’s a problem for a year from now.)
From all I’ve heard, the recent 10.2.1 release is getting great reviews.
January 29, 2014 at 4:07 PM #770337CoronitaParticipant[quote=spdrun]^^^
Which has been essentially solved with the official ability to sideload Android .apks.[/quote]
To me, that suggests they are going to be an “me too android” player then…No compelling reason then to develop explicitly for BBRY from an app perspective….
I got enough issues dealing with multiple devices and fragmentation(though it’s getting better)….
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