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Rafe,
I was saying, IF it goes through. Who knows who exactly will make this phone. Someone will, though. None of us really know or can be sure until its officially announced. Ive seen the new Nokia, but it wont be offered in the States. At least my understanding is that there are no plans to, anyway. I cant say I like the design all that much, to be quite honest. Based on those things, Smartphones look really good to me.
Chubbergott,
Well, Im glad I can make you laugh here and there, thats cool. :lol: But I must say, Im not defending Microsofts actions with other things. Thats hardly my responsibility, and if theyve done things that arent right in the past, those things have no bearing on the points I was trying to make.
But for logic sake, not Microsofts, I feel I must point out in reference to your example, even though Microsoft doesnt build pc hardware, expecting them to agree to having another competing OS ship with the same computers Windows ships with, is like expecting Nokia to ship its phones with both an MS OS and Symbian. Or to expect Apple to ship its computers with both the Apple OS and Windows. Microsoft isnt required to agree to allowing additional OS`s to ship with Windows, just for the sake of being nice. Its business. Youre not going to give your competitors a pass. Besides, it didnt prevent BeOS from entering the market, or prevent users from installing the OS, anyway. If a company has a way of beating out the competition, then thats just business. Sometimes, standards arent such a bad thing. But the bottom line is, competitors still come out with their products. And users can still use them.
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