I just wonder why they put out that joke of a controller for Google TV, when they could have made a PS Move-like controller with a slide-out keyboard or similar.
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Unrelatedly, is there anything wrong with, say, a mortgage-backed security accurately priced according to a particular model, so long as the limitations of the particular model's assumptions are properly understood? This applies to any model in economics or finance. All are obviously just simplifications of reality.
The technical assumptions of a mathematical model should not be blamed for the actions of ignorant or reckless investors.
http://phandroid.com/2010/10/19/android-3-0-should-be-ready-...
Remember that Google recently hired Matias Duarte from Palm, who headed the UI design of webOS. These subtle revisions aiming towards design consistency and taking the ugly out of Android, if true, are very promising.
If you want to sell an Android handset... you have to pay Microsoft.
They're pretty direct about their legal strategy.
The Economics of the Microsoft Case, by perhaps the best technology economist there is, Timothy Bresnahan of Stanford:
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.24.7...
Who do you value more, the current generation or future generations? Essentially the perpetual argument over the standard discounting problem.
The vast majority of funding for microcredit organizations comes from government. It's still charity, even if it can often be fairly efficient charity.
That said, the majority of economists would probably more or less agree with Slim. Buffett, Gates, and Slim could amass wealth faster than pretty much anyone else on earth. Just leaving the money invested in the global economy is not a priori worse than giving it all to charity. Compound growth is obviously self-sustaining growth. The HOPE is that charity can do the same.
Giving away tens of billions of dollars is an ENORMOUS informational problem. Good luck allocating it all even the least bit efficiently. The real answer is that no one can possibly know what the best use of all that money is.
What would I do with the money? Probably put it all in a Vanguard Total Market fund, or the closest fund imitating the true world economy.
"What about the Newton?? I actually bought one. I still can’t believe that I did."
I know several developers who frequently complain about Android fragmentation, but then again they might just be spoiled by iOS.
WP7 doesn't really allow for any oem/carrier skinning though...
They showed their cloud syncing online store at Google IO. Watch, starting around 31:10 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IY3U2GXhz44
The whole video is very much worth watching for any developers.
Gingerbread = Android 3.0, coming by the end of the year.
Honeycomb = Android 3.5, coming next year, with further optimizations for tablets.
The improvements really are constantly coming.
...uh, really? There are many very concrete reasons to believe they know about the vast majority of these issues and have respective solutions addressing them somewhere in their product roadmap. (ie, major UI revision in Gingerbread, along with optimization for tablets.) That, and they've been overwhelmingly successful so far, as Android phones now consistently outsell the iPhone each quarter.
Now, so long as everyone realizes the 'woman at the bar' scene in A Beautiful Mind isn't actual game theory, feel free to go nuts.