Originally Posted by Capt'n Corrupt

I'm not sure if this is such a bad strategy.. It seems that there's a race to have an appliance-like OS, and the web provides a quick and easy entry into this market.

The major challenge for Motorola is connecting their 'web os' (heh) to a functional store, or way of finding web applications for its users.

I anticipate that many, many more manufacturers are going to do the same.

If you take a look at the 'Chrome OS' thread, you'll see some examples that allude the the quality and capability that are possible with web applications. As browsers improve, more than 99% of common apps should be do-able on the web.

Like you, I'm skeptical about this course that Motorola has chosen, but I don't see it being a danger to their Android installation, but offers a tremendous opportunity to claim a stake on the upcoming web-warz.

They could have done without the press release...

Originally Posted by ysss

Aye, I was just berating them because they seem to have a pattern of spoiling what started out as a 'good' thing.

1. Razr: it was a good & simple workhorse, then they overdevelop the skins without appreciable increase to the core strengths and finally overdose the world til they could take no more Razrs.

2. Android? I guess this one is personal, cause I'm bitter for reading good things about the (original cdma Droid) and when I bought the Milestone (int'l gsm version of droid) I later found out its bootloader is locked up tight. And that they botched up execution of a pretty cool concept in Xoom.

Originally Posted by ZackMorris

Hey there Capt'n Crunch

You seem to be pretty up to date on all the Android offerings and I do not know if you are based in the States or not, but I just got a call from my new job stating that on Monday I need to have a mobile number to give them to print out my business cards. I'm not using my N900 so my question to you would be, what is the best Android w/wo Keyboard that handles business functions such as email and document management like spreadsheet and docs the best and is subsidized by US carriers such as TMO and ATT.

I appreciate your help.

Thanks,

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