jcarney

Google isn't above doing things that harm people to make them more money. Like the steadily decreasing background contrast and lack of borders separating ads from search results. Older people are far less cognizant of borders and thus would click on ads thinking they're search results.

http://blumenthals.com/blog/2012/01/31/is-google-intentional...

They recently got rapped by the FTC for it.

http://wallstcheatsheet.com/stocks/ftc-googles-ad-practice-i...

The difference is that the negative Microsoft news tends to float on top of sites like HN more than positive news, and the reverse is true for Google so this alters perceptions of people.

Windows Phone is more open than iOS in the sense that you have multiple OEMs making multiple types of phones targeting different markets unlike the iPhone. For example, the Lumia 521 is just $130 off contract in the US. Also the walled garden prevents the malware problem that Android has. So it can be considered as a happy medium between iOS and Android.

I am glad that there's more competition in the marketplace rather than just Apple and Android and that there are companies looking beyond earnings in their next quarter.

Apple could have probably made more money over the years by selling Macs with Windows and retiring their own OS.

Competition is good, for example see the flat look and concentration on typography that both Android and iOS borrowed from Windows Phone.

That's why I don't get all the deriding of Firefox OS and Ubuntu Phone. Android has plenty hardware OEMs behind it.

>99.9% of people who will buy this phone will never have a need for 41 megapixels. But they'll buy it just the same.

The tech does make normal pictures look better because of the oversampling. Not to mention optical image stabilization for reducing blur and shake in both image and video.

http://i.imgur.com/fUe8rLC.png

Which is why the phone generates a 8MP picture with the extra information from the 41M and reducing noise.

http://c699379.r79.cf3.rackcdn.com/Nokia%20808%20Pureview%20...

Perhaps read the whitepaper before knocking it down as meaningless?

http://i.nokia.com/blob/view/-/849564/data/2/-/Download1.pdf

If you're comparing a phone camera with a DSLR, that's already saying something.

Here's a review of the technology by a digital photography site.

http://www.dpreview.com/articles/8083837371/review-nokia-808...