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Authored by: Gringo_ on Sunday, June 02 2013 @ 10:55 AM EDT |
What happens when Samsung's 'every type of
device under the sun'
policy means that most if not all the
opposition goes bust or simply gives
up?
That is not going to happen. There will always be
competition - cheap merchandize from China if nowhere else.
Then you have a virtual worldwide monopoly.
The last
thing I want is one monopoly (Microsoft) replaced
by another one (Samsung) in
any way shape or form.
If I had to choose a monopoly, I
would choose a Samsung
monopoly over a Microsoft one any day of the week. So
far,
Samsung has shown none of the Machiavellian tendencies that
Microsoft
routinely displays.
Despite Android being based upon Linux,
I am
also beginning to have a sneaky feeling that Samsung will
ditch Android
very soon (1-2 years) in favour of their
own O/S. I am sure that the $10 per
unit that they have to
pay Microsoft for every Galaxy Handset wrankles with
them.
That is what I am wondering.
There is no concrete
evidence whatsoever that Samsung
pays anything to Microsoft - only carefully
crafted innuendo
from Microsoft itself. If Samsung ever ditched Android, it
would not mean the end of Android, which is now firmly
entrenched everywhere.
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Authored by: SilverWave on Sunday, June 02 2013 @ 02:36 PM EDT |
Well you could also say that humans are missing gills, and
that they need gills to thrive and spread over the whole of
the worlds seas.
Evolution doesn't have a goal in mind. Evolution is just
mathematics and a huge time frame (oh and the fabulously
endless possibilities for variation provided by DNA).
If there is variation in a species then evolution will work
on that species, just as gravity works on planets - its just
inherent in the system.
Quote: pre-simian apes (aka Lemurs) are an evolutionary dead
end. Consider them Apes X00.50 wheras proper simians are
Apes V1.00 onwards.
Lemurs are missing some vital bits to their biology that
they need to thrive and spread over the whole world.
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Authored by: SilverWave on Sunday, June 02 2013 @ 02:42 PM EDT |
Wow sounds great.
Wales... hmmm was it raining? :-)
Hopefully you hit lucky and it was beautiful sunshine
(however statistically unlikely ;-) - )
Quote: I don't need to chill out thanks. I've just returned
from two weeks photographing Lichens, beetles, flowers and
other tiny things in Wales. The Mountain Pansies were
particularly magnificent.
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0 run the program for any purpose
1 study the source code and change it
2 make copies and distribute them
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