Comments on: All about the hype…where’d it go? http://cultureandcommunication.org/f09/tdm/staticmud/whats-the-point-of-a-phone-if-you-cant-use-it-like-a-phone/ Graduate class in (new) Media (networked) Culture and (distributed) Communication @NYU Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:02:50 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Mushon http://cultureandcommunication.org/f09/tdm/staticmud/whats-the-point-of-a-phone-if-you-cant-use-it-like-a-phone/comment-page-1/#comment-724 Mushon Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:40:10 +0000 http://cultureandcommunication.org/f09/tdm/?p=3385#comment-724 does the vagueness about the multitouch technology has anything to do with Apple's patent of this technology? This reminds me of the disgusting iPhone announcement presentation. Steve Jobes said something like: "And we have registered over 20 new patents on the technology" and the crowd went: "Yey!!!". So blind in tech-lust that they did not realize they are supporting a monopoly and anti-compitition. (writing this comment on my iPhone) I wonder, what of the features of the Droid come with a Google-servers-pinging default setuhatEhat are the ways to shut it down? How involved is it? And what feature will you have to give up for privacy? does the vagueness about the multitouch technology has anything to do with Apple’s patent of this technology? This reminds me of the disgusting iPhone announcement presentation. Steve Jobes said something like: “And we have registered over 20 new patents on the technology” and the crowd went: “Yey!!!”. So blind in tech-lust that they did not realize they are supporting a monopoly and anti-compitition. (writing this comment on my iPhone)

I wonder, what of the features of the Droid come with a Google-servers-pinging default setuhatEhat are the ways to shut it down? How involved is it? And what feature will you have to give up for privacy?

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