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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, April 16 2013 @ 10:58 PM EDT |
This post is a follow-up to a news pick from Friday, April 12 2013:
BlackBerry disputes 'false and misleading' Z10 returns report.
In the
previous story:
BlackBerry will file a formal complaint with
Canadian and U.S. authorities about a "false and misleading" analyst report that
alleged consumers are returning the company's new Z10 touchscreen smartphones in
large numbers....
In newer developments, BlackBerry Z10 returns normal for new phone: analyst
another analyst who has followed Blackberry for years has looked at the data and
says that:
The new BlackBerry touch-screen smartphones
are not being returned at an unusually high rate, despite suggestions to the
contrary, according to an industry observer who has completed his own
checks.
Jefferies telecom analyst Peter Misek, who has watched the
BlackBerry company for years, says he considers the number of new BlackBerry Z10
phones being returned by customers "normal" for a new phone
launch.
The story adds that many of the (entirely normal)
returns they are getting seem to be related to customers who thought the Z10 had
a keyboard, and returned it because they really wanted the Q10 (which comes out
at the end of the month).
The relevance this has to Groklaw is the the
tech industry has a history of using "analysts for hire" to rubbish opponents,
such as we saw in the SCO and Oracle/Google Android Java cases. In this case
BlackBerry has said they intend to fight back. It will be interesting to see
what crawls out from under the rocks of this case.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, April 17 2013 @ 03:22 AM EDT |
So Foxconn is a hardware maker. What MS hardware patents could
they be infringing? Because if Foxconn is preloading the OS for
the device vendors, didn't MS already prove that's allowed free,
under copyright law?
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, April 17 2013 @ 03:37 AM EDT |
So is
law.com a serious blog about law or about com or what? I
can't be bothered signing on for an account
just to complain the first comment
on a serious techno-administrative article is sinophobe ... The lively
banter at
arstechnica's comments mostly welcomes her as
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, April 17 2013 @ 10:59 AM EDT |
editorial comment [... in the Microsoft world.]
Just a quick note. The problem in that XKCD isn't Microsoft specific. It's bad
behaved users and applications. I would have the same problem on Linux if I
stayed logged into everything all the time. I also have the problem that if I
log into gmail, I'm logged into everything google. (Fortunately I avoided
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, April 17 2013 @ 01:18 PM EDT |
Article
link.
Of course the obvious that shouldn't need to be said - but does
anyway because many don't consider it - is:
If I had a gmail account and/or
my documents stored in the Cloud on Google Drive - I could still do what I need
to because I choose to be smart enough to use Google Drive as a backup only with
my documents stored locally!
On the other hand, those who only stored their
documents on Google Drive - and not locally - are currently without.... And...
depending what is currently happening, may very well permenantly loose some
documents.
Remember when MS' Cloud services lost documents? Of course, I
expect Google to have far superior backup and recovery processes in place then
Microsoft did. But with technology, the more sources for recovery, the better
your chances of recovering.
Sadly, many use the applications on their
phones. Applications automatically installed by the service provider and/or
phone manufacturer. Applications designed only to store documents in the Cloud.
And so - even if they did have the sense of wanting to store documents locally
- they may not have a choice.
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