Thread: Nokia N900 vs. Motorola Droid / Milestone
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BatPenguin is offline BatPenguin
2009-10-29 , 12:40
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Originally Posted by christexaport View Post
That's not the point. The point is just like WalMart killed grocery in the South. We used to have Winn Dixie, Minyard's, Jewel T, Albertson's, and many other competitors in the DFW area, and now its just WalMart, Kroger, or Tom Thumb, unless you can afford Whole Foods and Central Market. There are less choices, bad produce quality at WalMart, meat prices and quality are nothing like Winn Dixie, etc.
Seriously, comparing Google's offerings to WalMart might be just a tad bad comparison

Still, sure, your point is valid, it'd be nice to have more options for most things in life. But the fact remains that the companies with the best products seem to survice. Your original rant suggested very strongly that you believe this to be a ploy to kill competition and then start charging for services. That sounded ridiculous. This latest post was pretty balanced and yes, sorry about your good grocery store. It will live happy ever after with the drive-through cinemas and betamax VCRs.

Originally Posted by christexaport View Post
I enjoy my privacy, and Google isn't big on respecting it. Nokia is, but that's not the point.
Aww, how sweet. The Nokia love on this forum would make Nokia bosses very happy. In the past few years, Nokia's corporate actions haven't won them many admirers here in the home country among the general public or their own employees. Nice to know they're still the good guys to some people and you consider them to respect your privacy. They're very interested in privacy, you know, even pushed through a law about it here... (http://www.hs.fi/english/article/Leg.../1135241264898)