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Originally Posted by Texrat View Post
More and more I see an eventual war between the Google and Apple worlds. The content finders and enablers versus the content providers and controllers. Not to say Google is without evil; they have a disturbing tendency to violate their own mantra against it on occasion. But I know which world I prefer, and it isn't locked.

Time will tell where Nokia falls and fits. Seems to me they want to straddle the border and that historically never works.
Google will most likely keep information free for content consumers but with a caveat - they want to mine whatever information is consumed for their ad revenue. So, it is either restricted information (Apple) or unrestricted information with strings attached (Google). If I had to choose between one of them I would choose Google but I hope there is a third choice of unrestricted information at a reasonable price (since free can't be sustained over the long term).
 

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