Pronouncing acronyms

I'm more confused by the people that feel that an acronym has to be pronounced using the same hard/soft letters as the words it stands for. Using that logic, take these examples:

ASCII - Do you pronounce it uh-ski, since "A" stands for American?

ICANN - Do you call them ih-can, since "I" stands for International?

... just to name a few

Shake it up

I welcome T-Mobile trying to shake things up in the cell phone market (there's basically no competition in the segment), but I'm a little unsure exactly how much influence they will be able to push. We are almost at the point nowadays where AT&T and Verizon are so big, there's not much that can be done to knock them off their thrones.

Free with contract?

I find it REALLY hard to believe that Apple would release even the "low cost" version completely free with a 2-year contract. I think $50 or even $100 would be more likely.

One of the big ideas that Apple has toted over the years is the "value" of their product. They don't want to undermine that value by pricing things really cheap, regardless of their actual cost ($100 premium to go from 32GB to 64GB?). That's why you don't see them on sale like other products (although they seem to have relaxed this a little bit over the recent years).

Karma

That is all.

Theme Music

Did anyone else have the tune of Doom E1M1 in their head while watching this without sound?

Nice design, poor performance/quality

I bought this phone right after it came out because it was the first Android phone available for AT&T (I really didn't want to get an iPhone). Initially I thought it was great (my previous phone was a Blackberry Pearl from work). However, since this was my first Android experience, I didn't have much to compare it to.

I like the keyboard flip out design. I have always been a much bigger fan of physical keyboards than virtual keyboards, and it seems like more and more Android phones are moving to virtual-only handsets. However, that's about the only thing that really stands out. It has poor video quality, a lackluster processor, and measly storage included. Oh, and it's still stuck on Android 1.5 (and based upon the Motorola timeline, no one knows when 2.1 will *actually* be released in the USA). I personally think they are still releasing it in the USA to avoid a class action lawsuit for falsely advertising that it was upgradeable to Android 2.0. This makes me question how the performance will be. The phone has been rooted recently, and the people that have done it have said good things, but I don't think I want to take the risk (I have to use the phone for work).

Personally, I'm looking at something in the Samsung Galaxy S series, such as the Captivate. My wife recently bought one and it's pretty nice. It has a lot nicer screen, it's much faster, and it already has Android 2.1.

A hard sell

Considering that Apple would never want to lose money on the hardware end of a system, it sound like a pretty hard sell to me.

"You get the same hardware as a Mac Mini for $50 less ... and a lot less functionality"

But then again, fanbois will be fanbois...

Out of touch

"The reason to do open source is for marketing purposes"

I can see how knowledgeable they are about the open source community.

Funny choice of examples

It's funny what example system they mention ... Jaguar. I doubt they would invest money in engineering support for that. Turbographics ... do you mean TurboGrafx? C'mon Sony!

... and Gravis... really? Why not mention the original Pong controller or Atari 2600?

Linux fixes

So after all this wait, have they finally fixed the longstanding bug under Firefox/Linux with the flash always appearing on top of other div layers?

Real usage?

You mean people actually use hotmail for REAL purposes instead of a spam-box address for bogus forum and newsletter sign-ups?