Yeah, it's bizarre. The 28 day window didn't work so doubling down on that strategy will?

Actually Symbian shined in the mid- 00's, with Nokia's S60v3 version on qwerty and T9 phones ( a la the N95 and E71). Once Nokia decided to bolt on a touch interface to it, a horrible decision, it (the company and the OS) went off a cliff.

Punctuation—-including periods and commas—-and paragraphs, are your friends.

Yup, it's called 'monetizing the existing customer base'. There are good, consumer friendly ways to do it, like offering helpful services and goods.

That's fine, because I have no problem sitting down for a minute, cutting them a check and sticking it out on my mailbox for the mailman to pick up.

Well, it depends on the usage scenario. I use both Blu ray and streaming, but its dependent on what I'm watching.

It's nice and all, but honestly, it's not just buying the Xbox, and you have all this content. It's an excuse for an increasing stack of monthly bills: an Xbox Gold subrscription, a Netflix subscription and so on and so forth.

Well wait, why does AT&T object that the FCC released the report to the public? What do they have to hide?

True. Any consumer product that relies on a particular technology (this includes music and movies since they relied on a tech, CDs and DVDs), will eventually be superseded by a similar product using a newer, better technology, so it's better to do that superseding yourself.

Agreed.

Well, yeah, I meant if Blackberry goes the way of the post-Motorola Razr era....

They're different companies; Sony has a hand in a lot of different product categories (which is also a downside).

For me, the best remedy to fix Sony is: they need to divest themselves/sell off the content divisions to other companies, or spin them off.

LOL, is that the first thing you noticed?

That isn't the point; the software is irrelevant in this instance, in terms of cost.

Well, keep in mind that this only for lower cost accessories, like iPhone cases, cables and such.

I mostly use a Gmail account these days, but I've also continued with an old Microsoft account, mostly due to the retro '@msn.com' address.

More than anything, this is just a sign of the times: the truly crappy economy and a terrible, terrible job market.

The way brick and mortar retailers can compete with Amazon, is by offering services that Amazon simply can't.

I agree, with caveats. Effective retail businesses can survive and even thrive, assuming that they have a valuable, needed niche that an online store can't provide.