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Awesome! SMS is THE best way to bring the next 1B people online. - Q dub

"Umm…this is a good thing in a weird way. It’d be a very very bad sign if Comcast’s own streams were excluded from the cap, which meant that they would most _certainly_ lower or freeze the cap where it is. At least now, they have to raise the cap over time to match their own video customers’ consumption pattern." - Q dub

"Think there’s a really simple explanation for this: iPhone apps are skewed towards games, which characteristically have lower retention. Not exactly a indicative of the quality of the app library nor of the loyalty of the user base." - Q dub

"HTML is going to become quite powerful…what is really happening is that the browser is becoming both a page viewer and an application-runtime." - Q dub

interactive music visualization! - Q dub

"I think the metered broadband vs metered utility is a very relevant analogy, however does not reflect the biggest reason why carriers want to fight net neutrality. Bandwidth can be managed with caps, but neutrality means the end of price discrimination: the ability to charge different prices per unit of traffic based on different usage. That is the underlying driver of insane SMS margins and paltry data margins if you compare then dollars for bit. There is no analogy to the utility world: it'd be like paying a higher price for drinking water and a lower one for shower water out of the same pipe because drinking water delivers more value per liter." - Q dub

"If a high end iPod touch costs $400, then a $600 "true cost" for the iPhone seems pretty reasonable. So AT basically prorated the subsidy for 1-year customers...seems pretty simple to me." - Q dub

"I find that a lot of technological innovation is about doing away with outdated physical metaphors. Google is trying to kill the snail mail metaphor with Wave, and hopefully somebody (like Lala) killing the disk/tape metaphor for streaming services." - Q dub

"To put it simply, Apple should make a TV because TVs are making the transition into computing devices, identical to the trend with cellphones." - Q dub

"I think an SMS command line will likely be the easiest way to offer up internet content in the developing world. You can have a separate application which offers a menu structure to help people construct the SMS queries. That'll be your super-lightweight system delivering mission critical information (weather, traffic, personal calendar, commodity prices) to the next billion netizens." - Q dub

"Lets ignore if it's OpenID or Facebook Connect for a moment. I just love the idea that the user's identity should be an attribute of the browser window, not an content state entirely invisible to the browser. I'd argue this same profile state should be used to determine which browser extensions to activate and browser configs." - Q dub

Lets ignore if it's OpenID or Facebook Connect for a moment. I just love the idea that the user's identity should be an attribute of the browser window, not an content state entirely invisible to the browser. I'd argue this same profile state should be used to determine which browser extensions to activate and browser configs. - Q dub via FriendFeed MT Plugin

"I find one of the biggest improvements in Vista and OS X 10.5 is the speed of entering and exiting sleep states. Sleep, I believe, is the real kick in the shin for all these instant-on projects. As we move to a world of less installed junk (more activities moving into the browser) we can expect the average consumer PC to be much cleaner, and thus rely only on sleep for weeks without a restart." - Q dub

"Word! Neither Twitterberry nor TinyTwitter make the cut." - Q dub

"Spring uses the same *technology* as Verizon does, not the same network. And as for the truth about who has the best netowrk, capex #s don’t lie =)" - Q dub

"There is yet another input besides money and entrepreneurs. Isn't there a structural limit to the supply of opportunities that capable of delivering out-sized returns? The kind of returns VCs expect can only come from new businesses that exploit deep structural and technological changes in industry, and that constraint does not scale with the amount of money or quality+quantity of entrepreneurs pumped into the system." - Q dub

"There is yet another input besides money and entrepreneurs. Isn't there a structural limit to the supply of opportunities that capable of delivering out-sized returns? The kind of returns VCs expect can only come from new businesses that exploit deep structural and technological changes in industry, and that constraint does not scale with the amount of money or quality+quantity of entrepreneurs pumped into the system." - Q dub