Author: GMills

Apple’s Statement on Carrier IQ

Posted by Greg Mills

I contacted Apple Media Relations this morning requesting comment on the Carrier IQ privacy issue on Apple products and got a nice phone call back with an official statement from Apple, at 4:30 Central time.

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Greg’s Bite: RIM PlayBook hits the dust

Posted by Greg Mills

The RIM PlayBook is being sold off at $99 as paperweights. Best Buy sold their existing PlayBook inventory that they had tried to return to RIM, unsuccessfully it seems. When they sold out at $99, it appears Best Buy has washed its hands of the worst dud since the Kin Phone Microsoft pulled from the market after about 6 weeks of humiliation and abuse in the press.

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Greg’s Bite: Sprint to “Apple Mobility”

Posted by Greg Mills

The AT&T merger with T-Mobile is apparently not going to happen. The failure of the AT&T merger, was to some extent due to the shrilled objection of Sprint. Now rumors are that merger talks have begun between Sprint and T-Mobile. Sprint wants it both way, AT&T merging with T-Mobile would be anticompetitive while T-Mobile merging with Sprint wouldn’t be? The net effect on consumers is the issue to be determined as to market competitiveness, the gold standard for anti-monopoly disputes.

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