Josh Fruhlinger
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Point made on reliability, but...
...a cell phone isn't a luxury if you can get one for less money than a landline; in that case, choosing a cell over a landline makes good economic sense. While the iPhone is pricey, you can definitely get plans with more basic phones that are cheaper than the typical all-you-can-eat plans that the legacy Bells offer. Having a phone number is a necessity; the question that arises is, what's the most efficient way of getting one? For younger people who move often and expect to have phone connectivity everywhere, it's a landline (and the superior connection that goes with it) that's a luxury, not a cell phone.
Did Apple ever seriously
Did Apple ever seriously consider going with Verizon? My understanding is that it was only ever interested in going with GSM/UMTS carriers, which Verizon is not, precisely for that whole uniformity reason again -- GSM/UMTS is the dominant tech everywhere but North America, and Apple didn't really feel any need to build a CDMA/EV-DO version of the iPhone just to play on Verizon's network.
There are other carriers in China, too, though none have the reach of China Mobile.
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Kindle news: pricing, business models and ... source code?
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Cell phone gaming: In search of good mobile games
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Sorry about that, John -- I
Sorry about that, John -- I have attributed the quote to you now, which is I think accurate? I could have sworn that the source I saw the quote in originally attributed it to Adobe's CEO, but it doesn't anymore and I may have misread it.