[stevenjklein]

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I believe it was the great philosopher Jagger who said, "You can't always get what you want."

But the philosopher Jimmy Cliff famously wrote, "You can get it if you really want."

Whom should we believe?

[n13331]

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For several years I contributed to and received newsletters from CNET I was becoming increasingly pissed off with the ongoing Apple bashing and Samsung cheering tone of their articles so I decided to unsubscribe. Surprise surprise when I clicked to the magic subscribe to newsletters page and scrolled to the bottom there it was major sponsor, Samsung! What a lying cheating deceiving world we do live in.

I have a feeling we'll be seeing more of this. We kind of thought Samsung is a copycat clone maker of products - with an arguably very strong manufacturing base. But there was a Horace Dediu article recently on Samsung's marketing budget - 10x that of Apple - and apparently quite a bit of Samsung's marketing expenses are in the form of kickbacks and other constructs that one ordinarily would simply call bribes.

Fair play? Samsung's never heard of it...

[pjmac]

When walking past a phone carriers store the other day, there was a table set up advertising the new phone lines, most were Samsung et al ( not one iPhone model ) and guess what, they were all FREE, with a ( ) contract. Talk about duping the customers. Anything to own a smart phone.

[jpmhughes]

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But a lens can also be used to light a fire, which can make a cold night more endurable. Um, a lens can't light a fire at night.

No, but you can light a fire during the day and when it becomes night and the fire is still burning it will make the cold night more endurable.

[whybird]

<blockquote>if you’re the kind of person that needs a giant-ass phone that includes a stylus and that you can root.</blockquote>
This, of course, reads entirely differently if you grew up in Australia. (For the rest of you: do not google the Australian slang meaning of 'root' at work.)

[shadowphiar]

<quote>The bumblebee analogy is more apt than Surowiecki details. The reason this myth started was because people tried to apply formulas to bees that weren’t apt.</quote>

But the difference is, major publications are not all full of articles like "Bumblebees will be out of the sky by 2014, says leading analyst"