RT @dbfarber: FB 680 mobile users but no FB phone for them. Selling 10m phones when you have 1b users is a "who cares" proposition, Zuckerberg said....
"Isnt this the same verizon that was warning like crazy that they're in a huge impending bandwidth crunch? Makes sense that they'd roll out this service AND do the double data promotion on phone plans they've had.... This is a good thing though; expensive, but for people out in the boonies or places where there's no other options, this fills a need, presumably."
- Ben Vear
"Isnt this akin to saying that ARM needs to add complex instruction set and Floating Point? Yes, ARM chips are fast enough for phones, and power sipping, but it'd just be nice to have same specs as the Win-Tel boxes. (The counter-point to this, is, of course, that Apple DID switch from RISC based to actual intels, but that's a whole nother can of worms). As a galaxy nexus guy, I also squirm looking at the specs, and wish they were 'better' (newer). But, maybe the phone is competitive enough for the majority of buyers. Maybe not. Clearly apple only mentions specs when it behooves them. (GPU on new iPad vs Tegra 3, but no mention of MPU cores/speed). I say all of this not having tried the silly device, more just to put onto screen/ether my own internal struggle w/ spec battles"
- Ben Vear
http://mobile.reuters.com/article... govt forward leaning w saas metered pricing?They have same prob as many:not data, timely analysis of big data < budget.