http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/engadget-podcast-143-04-24-2009/ Engadget Comments for Engadget Podcast 143 - 04.24.2009 http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/engadget-podcast-143-04-24-2009/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/engadget-podcast-143-04-24-2009/Apr 24th 2009 1:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/engadget-podcast-143-04-24-2009/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/engadget-podcast-143-04-24-2009/Apr 24th 2009 1:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/engadget-podcast-143-04-24-2009/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/engadget-podcast-143-04-24-2009/Apr 24th 2009 1:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/engadget-podcast-143-04-24-2009/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/engadget-podcast-143-04-24-2009/Apr 24th 2009 1:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/engadget-podcast-143-04-24-2009/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/engadget-podcast-143-04-24-2009/
Nilay Patel @ Apr 24th 2009 1:40PM

Time Warner doesn't own Time Warner Cable anymore, so it's not an issue -- and even if it did, we would still rip into them.

and iMaPC :)]]>Apr 24th 2009 2:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/engadget-podcast-143-04-24-2009/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/engadget-podcast-143-04-24-2009/
You should also record/podcast some of your shows live over-the-internet, so that people can send-in and call-in with questions in real-time.

Other than that, you guys really do have a great show. ]]>Apr 24th 2009 2:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/engadget-podcast-143-04-24-2009/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/engadget-podcast-143-04-24-2009/
And stay tuned on the live front -- we have some ideas. Big ideas.]]>Apr 24th 2009 2:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/engadget-podcast-143-04-24-2009/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/engadget-podcast-143-04-24-2009/
P.S. I have serious man-love for you. (The non-homo-type man love.)]]>Apr 24th 2009 3:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/engadget-podcast-143-04-24-2009/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/engadget-podcast-143-04-24-2009/Microsoft see's the success of the iPhone, and then see's how the coolness of the iPhone sells more macs. Microsoft wants a cool device too. I think the key here is Windows Mobile 7.

I bet MS plans on having windows mobile 7 out within a few months of Windows 7. Then the two OS's are directly linked and people will see the 7 and understand that both products are on the cutting edge. I think Windows Mobile 7 is going to be completely overhauled from any windows mobile build we have seen. But I also think that with windows mobile 7 there will be specific requirements to running it.

By doing all this Microsoft will be able to bring out a new OS, and some hardware to "show'em how its done." without pissing off the likes of HTC, Samsung, etc... I think zune functionality will be built into the OS as well as all devices must have capacitive touch support. I think it will also have game support like the PSP 2 PS3 or DS to Wii experience. The Zune HD is going to feature all this, but it wont be a phone it will be a PMP. its up to Danger, HTC, etc.. to make the "Phone" versions. But the key here is that this would connect all of Microsoft's IP's together, giving them "SYNERGY". That lovely corporate word. This isn't my dream either. This is just Business 101 talking.

Sorry for the long post. Need a Conspiracy Theory Blogger on the Engadget Team?]]>Apr 24th 2009 2:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/engadget-podcast-143-04-24-2009/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/engadget-podcast-143-04-24-2009/Apr 24th 2009 8:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/engadget-podcast-143-04-24-2009/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/engadget-podcast-143-04-24-2009/By the way, the reader who is 17 and thought they might be the youngest is definitely wrong. I'm sure I'm not the youngest, and I'm 15.]]>Apr 24th 2009 8:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/engadget-podcast-143-04-24-2009/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/engadget-podcast-143-04-24-2009/
Oh, and one more thing... Engadget, you get off MY lawn.]]>Apr 25th 2009 12:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/engadget-podcast-143-04-24-2009/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/engadget-podcast-143-04-24-2009/
Nilay touched on this point, but I think the big reason that China makes so many KIRFs is because it doesn't enforce international intellectual property laws, and it doesn't because it has no incentive to. This is exactly the way America was in the 1800s--books written in foreign countries were not subject to US copyright until the 1900s. This allowed American publishers to rip off European books and sell them to the American public for a fraction of the cost. It wasn't until American authors themselves began to create works worth protecting that America began respecting international copyright.

China is undergoing the same process. The country is poor so its to their advantage to allow KIRFs--that way, its citizens can have cutting edge technology at way less cost. But one day a Chinese company (maybe Lenovo or Haier or someone else altogether) will come out with a truly innovative product that it wants protected abroad. Then China will begin to enforce IP laws and KIRFs will move elsewhere.

My two cents :)]]>Apr 26th 2009 7:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/engadget-podcast-143-04-24-2009/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/engadget-podcast-143-04-24-2009/
Seems like China is going the right direction with their loosening of IP laws. Companies developing patents-of-mutual-destruction isn't what these laws were ever intended for.]]>Apr 26th 2009 11:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/engadget-podcast-143-04-24-2009/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/engadget-podcast-143-04-24-2009/Apr 30th 2009 10:42AM