Tragedy of the commons: "The rational herdsman concludes that the only sensible course for him to pursue is to add another animal to his herd. And another; and another .... But this is the conclusion reached by each and every rational herdsman sharing a commons. Therein is the tragedy. Each man is locked in a system that compels him to increase his herd without limit.
Ruin is the destination to which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons. Freedom in a commons, brings ruin to all.

Touch is a fantastic addition to the OS and the way things are going I wont be surprised to see a lot of effort by many manufacturers and software developers in this regard.

One of the best examples I have seen is by Perceptive Pixel. Now if anyone, Apple, Microsoft and all the rest can deliver something remotely in these lines then we will all be better of. Of course then all we need is a giant display that we can stand next to it to use. But that will be cool, don't you think.

Indoor positioning systems are fantastic systems to make and there can be a huge market for them. Currently it is difficult to use robots inside buildings that can use GPS for navigation. If someone can come up with a decent commercial system that can be used for IPS without the need to engineer the environment, then they are going to be huge.

This article doesn't say anything about the technical aspects of the technology, so it is unclear if they simply use repeaters to emulate GPS in an indoor environment based on external antennas.

Once IPS is sorted, we will start to see many robots in our environment, existing with us in harmony and helping us with everything we want to do.

That's seriously funny. I am amazed how many people don't get the joke or like to ignore it.

If they are ever going to make a product as person of the year, it would have to be a robot. A robot that acts pretty much like a human. We are still many years away from this, so I am afraid you may have to wait for a while.

Looks compact and rigid, certainly an upgrade to what they had before. So it seems it still doesn't have "true AI". Instead it helps the operator to understand the environment. Good effort. We still have a long road ahead of us when it comes to robotics ...

When I saw the title, I thought excellent, lets see what the man says. I have a HTC MDA since when they didn't even call it HTC, so I am naturally interested to know what's behind the great device.

Now if it was me, I would have asked a lot of other questions, not just about Android.

Questions:
1. You like to make a portfolio of devices. What categories of features do you think are most important: GPS, large displays, keyboard, wireless, novel displays such as flexible displays, fast units with low battery, software interface in line with iPhone innovation and so on. What combinations are critical? Where are we heading?
2. Where do you see yourself in 3 or 5 years time? Would you have many Windows Mobiles along with your custom made phones. In your eyes what would be the "true value" that you offer to consumers. (because he talked about value)
3. How are you going to compete with iphone. Does Apple even matter?
4. If you were not restricted by the wishes of operators, what kind of a device would you make.

I am getting carried away. There are so many wonderful questions you can ask the great man.
Bit disappointed with the questions that were asked really. I had higher expectations from Engadget for this great opportunity they had.

I am still amazed why dual sim has never become that popular. With all the business people going around with two mobile phone, one for personal and for business, you would think that this market must have been cornered by now. A business man can then get the company to buy him a fancy mobile, obviously for business purposes, which he can also use for personal calls while keeping the bills separate. So, great trend, hopefully it will be noticed and picked up by other manufacturers too.

It's not how edible it is, but how you eat it that counts.

Necessity is the mother of invention. If this is invention, I am wondering what is "necessity"? Though one ...

EMP's only use seems to be destruction and that's really only useful in wars!!! So, all this effort to know how to destroy is a bit disturbing ... But of course everything always develops in line with each other. Put this next to the announcement by US Military that they want to replace a third of of their armed vehicles and weaponry with robots by 2015. So, all you need to stop them is to zap them by EMP, and go back home peacefully. Mmm, interesting time.
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