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| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/2132823 | Nov 28 05:37 |
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| TechrightsBot | @schestowitz@joindiaspora.com reshared: things are looking up  #13 #666 #fortunecookie | Nov 28 05:37 |
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| schestowitz | "What? that's his phone number XD" | Nov 28 05:37 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/2133457 | Nov 28 05:38 |
| TechrightsBot | @schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: "nothing but Android/Linux on dozens of choices." http://mrpogson.com/2012/11/23/m-is-a-dropout/ | Nov 28 05:38 |
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| schestowitz | " | Nov 28 05:38 |
| schestowitz | The large number of Android phones and tablets is a step forward for Linux and FOSS in general, but it's important to remember that the vast majority of these devices are still closed-source. | Nov 28 05:38 |
| schestowitz | People aren't buying these things because they run Linux or because they are "better". It's because they're cheaper. Which is the same reason Microsoft had a majority of the PC market for so long. | Nov 28 05:38 |
| schestowitz | " | Nov 28 05:38 |
| schestowitz | Android works for OEMs/smartphone makers not just because it's better/best. | Nov 28 05:39 |
| schestowitz | "You are making this up as you go along, aren't you?" | Nov 28 05:40 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/2141839 | Nov 28 05:40 |
| TechrightsBot | @schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: Swedish envoy bashes Aussie press on #Assange http://www.thelocal.se/44660/20121126/ Swedish politicians for #obama republic? | Nov 28 05:40 |
| TechrightsBot | -> Title: Swedish envoy bashes Aussie press on Assange - The Local .::. Size~: 109.91 KB | Nov 28 05:40 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/2142503 | Nov 28 05:41 |
| TechrightsBot | @schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: How they do in in #be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIMB6NsQMEQ #protest #milk | Nov 28 05:41 |
| TechrightsBot | -> Title: Dairy of Mad Men: Angry farmers spray milk on riot police in Brussels - YouTube .::. Size~: 206.19 KB | Nov 28 05:41 |
| schestowitz | "I understand their frustration, but this is just pure waste. People are starving in various places in the world, and these guys are just wasting that milk. Very, very unwise." | Nov 28 05:41 |
| schestowitz | The only way left to get press attention, which they did... | Nov 28 05:41 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/2141792 | Nov 28 05:43 |
| TechrightsBot | @schestowitz@joindiaspora.com reshared: ### Belgian police attacked with... #milk Sadly, they peppersprayed the farmers back... :( #farmers #brussels #pepperspray #protest #activism | Nov 28 05:43 |
| TechrightsBot | Photo by missfreemouse@diasp.org: https://diasp.org/uploads/images/thumb_medium_3cf83194b3bbd4a8c3f8.jpg | Nov 28 05:43 |
| schestowitz | "Dairy cuts the sting a bit" | Nov 28 05:43 |
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| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/2130099 | Nov 28 11:54 |
| TechrightsBot | @damonsimonetti@diasp.org: -  ### FRONTLINE explores what poverty means to children and to the country’s future. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/poor-kids/ #news, #television, #TV, #PBS, #frontline, #publictelevision, #image, #picture, #statistics, #poverty, #US, #future, #hunger, #malnutrition, #disease, #injustice, #inequality, #documentary, #report | Nov 28 11:54 |
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| schestowitz | "Or read blogs that are independent of the major media/publishing companies." | Nov 28 11:54 |
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| schestowitz | > Good Day Dr. Schestowitz, | Nov 28 14:11 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 28 14:11 |
| schestowitz | > During a “Google Search” I found this guest post on techrights.org today: | Nov 28 14:11 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 28 14:11 |
| schestowitz | > http://techrights.org/2012/11/07/swpats-pyramid/ | Nov 28 14:11 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 28 14:11 |
| TechrightsBot | Title: Guest Post on Patent Collusion | Techrights .::. Size~: 94.62 KB | Nov 28 14:11 |
| schestowitz | > I have been looking for others who suspect what I do, although I must | Nov 28 14:11 |
| schestowitz | > admit that this was a different element from what I have been watching | Nov 28 14:11 |
| schestowitz | > altogether. Nonetheless, I found it to be fascinating. I read in the | Nov 28 14:11 |
| schestowitz | > ‘about’ pages that there are other people who see danger on the horizon | Nov 28 14:11 |
| schestowitz | > for open-source, and I kept clicking through until I found your v-card | Nov 28 14:11 |
| schestowitz | > so I could send you this email. I will do my best to be brief. | Nov 28 14:11 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 28 14:11 |
| schestowitz | > I have worked in the mobile phone industry in the US, for both | Nov 28 14:11 |
| schestowitz | > Sprint-Nextel and T-Mobile USA, and also have run my own business, for a | Nov 28 14:11 |
| schestowitz | > grand total of about four years now, but my primary educational | Nov 28 14:11 |
| schestowitz | > background has always been in physics and mathematics… due to past | Nov 28 14:11 |
| schestowitz | > health and financial conditions (the financial one never goes away, | Nov 28 14:11 |
| schestowitz | > though), I am unable to continue my education at this time, though I | Nov 28 14:11 |
| schestowitz | > intend to return once I am no longer restricted. Hopefully, Penn State | Nov 28 14:11 |
| schestowitz | > University will still be accredited by then (lol…), but until then, as | Nov 28 14:11 |
| schestowitz | > employment has been so scarce that I cannot seem to obtain work from any | Nov 28 14:11 |
| schestowitz | > employer, I have re-opened my old business in mobile phone consulting… I | Nov 28 14:12 |
| schestowitz | > am making my own job. I decided soon after re-launching and updating my | Nov 28 14:12 |
| schestowitz | > business website that I should write about my latest thoughts of the | Nov 28 14:12 |
| schestowitz | > past year or so in my old blog… I have been watching a situation | Nov 28 14:12 |
| schestowitz | > involving Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Sony over the past year or so | Nov 28 14:12 |
| schestowitz | > that troubles me, and I have offered a hypothetical model that | Nov 28 14:12 |
| schestowitz | > substantiates evidence of collusionary behavior aimed at stripping | Nov 28 14:12 |
| schestowitz | > Android from Google for the benefit of the rest of the players. | Nov 28 14:12 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 28 14:12 |
| schestowitz | > I have noticed that many purchasers of Android phones in my area are | Nov 28 14:12 |
| schestowitz | > just trying to buy a smartphone for cheap, so that they can have a | Nov 28 14:12 |
| schestowitz | > ‘cool’ phone and internet terminal, and do not care at all that it is | Nov 28 14:12 |
| schestowitz | > open-source, or try to do anything with it that it CAN do as a Linux | Nov 28 14:12 |
| schestowitz | > derivative. As I am now watching many of those second- or third-upgrade | Nov 28 14:12 |
| schestowitz | > buyers switch to iPhones, and watching the behaviors of those who remain | Nov 28 14:12 |
| schestowitz | > with Android, I fear that the average consumer has no real clue of | Nov 28 14:12 |
| schestowitz | > exactly what they have, and this plays into the allegations discussed in | Nov 28 14:12 |
| schestowitz | > my post. By stacking the Android/Linux user community with an | Nov 28 14:12 |
| schestowitz | > overabundance of mobile consumers who do not care how it works as long | Nov 28 14:12 |
| schestowitz | > as they can get it for cheap, is there an effort to squelch a potential | Nov 28 14:12 |
| schestowitz | > outcry by open-source community members by simply burying them within a | Nov 28 14:12 |
| schestowitz | > mountain of even more people who could care less? I was wondering if | Nov 28 14:12 |
| schestowitz | > you would not mind taking some time, maybe 15 minutes, to read this post | Nov 28 14:12 |
| schestowitz | > (and maybe the one before it as well) and let me know what you think? | Nov 28 14:12 |
| schestowitz | > Here is the link: | Nov 28 14:12 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 28 14:12 |
| schestowitz | > http://waltersconsultation.wordpress.com/2012/11/25/free-markets-favor-google-regulation-favors-apple-microsoft-and-sony/ | Nov 28 14:12 |
| TechrightsBot | Title: Free Markets Favor Google, Regulation Favors Apple, Microsoft… and Sony? « Walters Mobile Office Consulting .::. Size~: 62.04 KB | Nov 28 14:12 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 28 14:12 |
| schestowitz | > and the one previous, if you have a few extra minutes: | Nov 28 14:12 |
| schestowitz | > | Nov 28 14:12 |
| schestowitz | > http://waltersconsultation.wordpress.com/2012/11/24/google-may-look-invincible/ | Nov 28 14:12 |
| TechrightsBot | Title: Google May Look Invincible, but Is Apple About to Strangle Their US Marketshare? « Walters Mobile Office Consulting .::. Size~: 54.53 KB | Nov 28 14:12 |
| schestowitz | I can't quite see how Sony fits a Microsoft/Apple agenda. Sony is just trying to stay relevant after struggling with Clio/Palm OS, Symbian, and some other endeavours. Sony is unable to compete with the Koreans right now, same issue as HTC's. As for Apple in the US, well, the US-based company, Apple, has some loyal fanbase there, but it's not enough to keep it relevant. iPhone 5 was recently released, so there is a temporary upswing; | Nov 28 14:12 |
| schestowitz | Apple has been trying to spin some of the latest figures by looking only at US shipments; the mobile market is far larger than the US. | Nov 28 14:12 |
| schestowitz | > Thank you for your time, and I look forward to any response, critique, | Nov 28 14:12 |
| schestowitz | > recommendations, or further input that you may be able to offer. Thank | Nov 28 14:12 |
| schestowitz | > you again. | Nov 28 14:12 |
| schestowitz | I've subscribed to the blog. | Nov 28 14:12 |
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| schestowitz | > Thank you so much for the prompt reply, Dr. Schestowitz, | Nov 28 15:41 |
| schestowitz | No problem, thanks for sending me something to cite later on this week. | Nov 28 15:41 |
| schestowitz | > I do see your point on Sony and Apple. Apple is a force to be reckoned with | Nov 28 15:41 |
| schestowitz | > in the US, but not so much elsewhere. | Nov 28 15:41 |
| schestowitz | Except the UK, maybe Japan to a certain degree. | Nov 28 15:41 |
| schestowitz | > And yes, Sony is struggling to catch | Nov 28 15:41 |
| schestowitz | > up from being so far behind for so long. However, does that not give Sony a | Nov 28 15:41 |
| schestowitz | > greater incentive to buy into a Microsoft/Apple collusion? With the DRM | Nov 28 15:41 |
| schestowitz | > patents held by Sony, which Apple and Microsoft have had to license for | Nov 28 15:41 |
| schestowitz | > years at negotiated cheap rates that have remained fixed for a long time | Nov 28 15:41 |
| schestowitz | > (and hence allowing iTunes and competitors to offer $0.99 music tracks and | Nov 28 15:41 |
| schestowitz | > $9.99 movie titles for the last fifteen years or more, and also allowing for | Nov 28 15:41 |
| schestowitz | > Windows Media Player to be built into every Microsoft-based PC by default), | Nov 28 15:41 |
| schestowitz | Samsung is actually another DRM company that helped Microsoft with DRM. Sony is a "content" company, DRM patents are not all that essential. Many people want nothing to do with DRM. | Nov 28 15:41 |
| schestowitz | > does not Sony have a weapon that they could wield to their advantage, | Nov 28 15:42 |
| schestowitz | > leveraging their option to buy in? Microsoft and Apple may be beholden to | Nov 28 15:42 |
| schestowitz | > Sony for keeping the DRM royalty rates down, and, after all, Sony is an epic | Nov 28 15:42 |
| schestowitz | > entertainment giant (and entertainment is HUGE and GROWING) even if they are | Nov 28 15:42 |
| schestowitz | > not such a giant in the mobile space. What better way is there to get Sony | Nov 28 15:42 |
| schestowitz | > into a better spot in mobile, and what better way is there for Apple and | Nov 28 15:42 |
| schestowitz | > Microsoft to keep their end of a bargain in garnering added strength to | Nov 28 15:42 |
| schestowitz | > manipulate the market? | Nov 28 15:42 |
| schestowitz | Sony actually spoke about its mobile patents a few months ago. Microsoft and Apple won't sue because they have little incentive in doing so. Sony has lots of patents and little market share in mobile, for now... | Nov 28 15:42 |
| schestowitz | > If consumers were faced with just two choices, then | Nov 28 15:42 |
| schestowitz | > they would probably suspect fishy business immediately; however, what of a | Nov 28 15:42 |
| schestowitz | > three-choice hegemony? Would consumers baulk so quickly at a three-choice | Nov 28 15:42 |
| schestowitz | > space? With all the talk of the "third ecosystem", it is already as if the | Nov 28 15:42 |
| schestowitz | > market-talk is buttering us up for just such a tri-polar solution. Perhaps | Nov 28 15:42 |
| schestowitz | > Microsoft and Apple have as much reason to scratch Sony's back as Sony has | Nov 28 15:42 |
| schestowitz | > to scratch theirs... | Nov 28 15:42 |
| schestowitz | Microsoft and Sony are no friends; they compete on hardware (consoles). The same goes for Apple, Sony hardly produces anything for Apple. | Nov 28 15:42 |
| schestowitz | > Perhaps there are reasonable answers to these concerns that I am simply not | Nov 28 15:42 |
| schestowitz | > aware of yet. Either way, I very much appreciate your response and | Nov 28 15:42 |
| schestowitz | > thoughts. Are there any sources of mobile market information that you | Nov 28 15:42 |
| schestowitz | > prefer over others? If so, I would be interested to know so that I can look | Nov 28 15:42 |
| schestowitz | > at them more earnestly. Thank you for subscribing as well. I appreciate | Nov 28 15:42 |
| schestowitz | > the support and interest immensely. | Nov 28 15:42 |
| schestowitz | There are no good sites for mobile news that I can think of. There is a big brands war. As for Techrights, we focus on patents aspects for the most part. | Nov 28 15:42 |
| schestowitz | https://joindiaspora.com/posts/2147129 | Nov 28 19:05 |
| TechrightsBot | @schestowitz@joindiaspora.com: The comms system -- not just #internet -- is under massive attack. People like #murdoch shoot messengers by intercepting comms. | Nov 28 19:05 |
| schestowitz | "Instead of wasting their money on new 'phones, they should be buying themselves freedomboxes - with a much better os - debian!" | Nov 28 19:05 |
| schestowitz | "dnu - debian is not ubuntu :-)" | Nov 28 19:06 |
| MinceR | can freedomboxes connect to GSM/UMTS/LTE? :> | Nov 28 19:24 |
| schestowitz | Is it not still a bit of vapourware? | Nov 28 19:46 |
| schestowitz | They never released a finished product, did they (yet)? | Nov 28 19:46 |
| MinceR | which one? | Nov 28 19:46 |
| MinceR | oh, that one | Nov 28 19:47 |
| MinceR | well, it did reach the kickstarter goal | Nov 28 19:48 |
| MinceR | so it has funding at least | Nov 28 19:48 |
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