Today Is Nokia’s Worst Day Ever

Nokia plots Windows Phone future for US: ‘no plans’ to offer N9, Symbian, or feature phones stateside

The news is all over the Net, but I link to that because I tried to leave a Comment there. It doesn’t seem to have made it through (unless Opera is messing with me again), so I’m going to put it here.

See it after the break.

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Red Headlines For August 9, 2011

Yes, I waited until day’s end to post these.

Given the market closed up today, all of you can now kid yourselves that Everything Will Be All Right.

Until tomorrow.

Apple’s Seeds Growing Fruits Of Revenge

New US Lawsuit Accuses Apple of E-Book Price Fixing

It’s about bloody time! I’ve said it was price fixing in post after post after post.

Now let’s also see some multi-front court action regarding Restraint of Trade!

Previously here:

The Seeds Of Apple’s Fall

The Seeds Of Apple’s Fall

https://twitter.com/#!/mikecane/status/101048157982560258

https://twitter.com/#!/mikecane/status/101050358377353217

Apple has gone beyond the bounds of protecting its valid intellectual property. It has become a bully.

The near EU-wide injunction against Samsung isn’t based on software patents at all. It’s based on a flimsy claim that the Galaxy Tab 10.1’s hardware vaguely resembles an iPad! See this post.

If Apple has a case, then so does Lodsys against everyone violating the patents it owns.

But beyond that, all of you better wonder how eagerly Apple will cooperate with authorities with wholesale dragnet handovers of private information instead of demanding the authorities justify each case.

Apple has stepped into a whole new world after the UK riots.

And I don’t think it’s prepared for that at all.

Veteran company RIM isn’t.

Now You Can Upload Photos Into Twitter

I got this popup notice yesterday:

Click = big

I didn’t think it was new, so didn’t post about it.

But others are getting it now and are saying it’s new, so this post.

Icarus, Is That You?

Apple Inc surpasses Exxon Mobil's market cap, becomes largest U.S. publicly traded company

— Reuters India (@ReutersIndia) August 9, 2011

https://twitter.com/#!/mikecane/status/100981014813343744

Today’s installment of Apple Asshattery:

Apple censors underground comics classics http://bit.ly/rufBq3

— Heidi MacDonald (@Comixace) August 9, 2011

Not Nokia And Half Not Funny

We save the best phones for countries with AAA credit ratings.

— Fake Stephen Elop (@fakeselop) August 9, 2011

Say what you want about Nokia, but at least our products don't end up on Woot.com a month after release!

— Fake Stephen Elop (@fakeselop) August 5, 2011