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Do you really think Sony would be any different when it comes to this: http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/exclusive-sony-ericsson-t...

In terms of Table Storage, since they are running on EC2 instances if I'm not mistaken, couldn't you use Amazon's SDB?

What I find really funny is how completely opposite MS has dealt with Jailbreaking of Windows Phone. Down to offering to send geohotz a phone to play with: http://twitter.com/#!/BrandonWatson/status/27508118367772672

While I may end up being in the minority, I think that they'll do just fine.

First, let me clarify that by fine, I don't mean they will be in first place anytime soon (or ever), but rather I'm talking about having a strong userbase and fighting for second place (out of iPhone, Android, Blackberry, WP7).

Really it will come down to two things, Office integration and XBox Live.

The way they've set up the office integration as well as integrating with sharepoint and exchange will IMO win over a lot of business folks who are starting to tire of the Blackberry.

To dismiss the XBox Live features with "are you really going to play XBOX games on your phone" is extremely misleading, you aren't meant to be playing full xbox games on your phone, the games that you will be playing are more akin to the XBox live arcade games that integrate nicely to the XBox live services (ie leader-boards, achievements, and the like).

on top of that, there is the rumors (a little far fetched I admit) of a partnership between Microsoft and Nokia which certainly wouldn't hurt.

Just like Microsoft preferred that it's customers used internet explorer over Netscape's offering

So 6 months before they release their new phone OS, Microsoft is going to announce that they are Supporting the iPhone with their superior (personal opinion here) development environment, thus giving up one of the (very?) few areas that WP7 has an advantage...

I'm going to go out on a limb as say, probably not.

True, but if youtube were to drop H.264 in favor of VP8, how quickly do you think the iPhone/iPad would start supporting VP8?

Wouldn't Google just have to switch it's YouTube HTML5 support to use VP8 instead of H.264 in order to "win" this? If YouTube really does make up 40% of the online video market, Google has the largest ace in it's back pocket.

excuse my ignorance, but would that list of vendors possibly include Mozilla? I would imagine that having both Firefox and Chrome support VP8 day one would be a major shot against H264 becoming the standard.

Was the warrant excessively broad? I'd say! What exactly is the point of the police seizing someones mice and display screens in a case like this other than to ensure that Mr Chen now has an even bigger bill to pay if he wants to get back to work any time soon?

Doesn't the article state that it was "removed" from the App Store meaning that it had made it through one of the earlier development agreements, but has since been removed?

Am I the only one who see's the numbers as a bit odd?

So the first day (april 3rd) they sold 300,000 units. Four days later (april 8th) they were talking about having sold 450,000 units (~37.5k per day) now 6 days after that, they announce 500,000 units (~8.3k per day).

How exactly is this "a runaway success"?