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Squawk Box August 21 Conference call organized by Alec Saunders

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Thu, Aug 21, at 11:00 AM
(GMT -04:00), US - Eastern
Duration: 30 minutes
First up -- the rumours of an iTunes unlimited offering. The folks over at The Unofficial Apple Weblog published a piece this morning suggesting that Apple might offer (for perhaps $130 year) a subscription "all-you-can-eat" iphone music service, with the option to buy tracks you'd really like to keep. It's intriguing. We'll discuss the pro's and con's.

And second, there are a ton of blog postings hitting this morning about Blackberry Bold. The launch is imminent. We've got a number of Blackberry users as regulars. We're going to quize them about their upgrade plans and more.
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M Alec Saunders
Dan Rockwell
Thomas Purves
Dan York
Adam Somer
Ian F. Hood
William Volk
Todd Spraggins
Sheryl Breuker
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Sheryl Breuker said:
Aug 21, 11:42 AM (GMT -04:00)
Thanks!
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Thomas Purves said:
Aug 21, 11:42 AM (GMT -04:00)
thanks all
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Dan Rockwell said:
Aug 21, 11:42 AM (GMT -04:00)
good call :)
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Dan Rockwell said:
Aug 21, 11:41 AM (GMT -04:00)
good stuff
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Dan Rockwell said:
Aug 21, 11:39 AM (GMT -04:00)
sounds like theres alot of what it should be like, what should it be? will it be just android vs apple, or is there room for something new, something better, and what is that?
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Alec Saunders said:
Aug 21, 11:39 AM (GMT -04:00)
i'm vacillating on that one
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Thomas Purves said:
Aug 21, 11:38 AM (GMT -04:00)
webkit
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Dan Rockwell said:
Aug 21, 11:38 AM (GMT -04:00)
where do you coders see the future going for mobile phone dev spaces, what's it gonna look like in 2010?
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Sheryl Breuker said:
Aug 21, 11:38 AM (GMT -04:00)
stability
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Sheryl Breuker said:
Aug 21, 11:38 AM (GMT -04:00)
maybe it's phone satbility
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Sheryl Breuker said:
Aug 21, 11:38 AM (GMT -04:00)
I am a HEAVY gtalk user on my BB
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Thomas Purves said:
Aug 21, 11:37 AM (GMT -04:00)
I have a lot of gtalk contacts which seems to give either a pearl or a curve (on EDGE) a regular heart attack to load and keep running
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Sheryl Breuker said:
Aug 21, 11:37 AM (GMT -04:00)
...but my expectations may be lower
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Sheryl Breuker said:
Aug 21, 11:37 AM (GMT -04:00)
As a relatively new user in the world of smart phones...I have only had 2 BB's. The first went back because it simply kept rebooting. The second I use today and with little exception has been spectacular
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Alec Saunders said:
Aug 21, 11:36 AM (GMT -04:00)
me neither, but i have general stability issues with all the platforms, Sheryl
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Sheryl Breuker said:
Aug 21, 11:35 AM (GMT -04:00)
That's interesting...I have not found gtalk a problem on BB
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Dan Rockwell said:
Aug 21, 11:35 AM (GMT -04:00)
so the future is really android vs apple
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Thomas Purves said:
Aug 21, 11:34 AM (GMT -04:00)
sometimes I can run the gtalk BB app for several minutes at a time between crashes or lockups
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Dan Rockwell said:
Aug 21, 11:30 AM (GMT -04:00)
so big slow and non agile meaning lame and not as sexy as apple? no gold rush happening there eh?
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Thomas Purves said:
Aug 21, 11:30 AM (GMT -04:00)
Ya you just have to ask rick segal for the money
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Sheryl Breuker said:
Aug 21, 11:29 AM (GMT -04:00)
definitely one of the frustrating things about BB is going to a browser page and being told your browser doesn't support ...
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Dan Rockwell said:
Aug 21, 11:28 AM (GMT -04:00)
yeah but does the blackberry have an app store? can anyone dev for that platform?
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Dan Rockwell said:
Aug 21, 11:27 AM (GMT -04:00)
hmmm
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Sheryl Breuker said:
Aug 21, 11:27 AM (GMT -04:00)
I think that's hard for Steve to do
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Thomas Purves said:
Aug 21, 11:26 AM (GMT -04:00)
how fast is the processor on the bold compared to the iphone? that is likely the limiting factor for flash?
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Dan Rockwell said:
Aug 21, 11:25 AM (GMT -04:00)
are blackberry users the same or even related to iphone users? who is a blackberry user vs an iphone user
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Sheryl Breuker said:
Aug 21, 11:24 AM (GMT -04:00)
HAHA!
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Dan Rockwell said:
Aug 21, 11:24 AM (GMT -04:00)
depends on the coverage
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Dan Rockwell said:
Aug 21, 11:22 AM (GMT -04:00)
he's doing the... "and boom..."
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Thomas Purves said:
Aug 21, 11:22 AM (GMT -04:00)
manufacturing of the bold seems to be staggering out the door
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Sheryl Breuker said:
Aug 21, 11:22 AM (GMT -04:00)
that name is NOT a household name
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Thomas Purves said:
Aug 21, 11:22 AM (GMT -04:00)
they probably don"t have enough phones yet
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Sheryl Breuker said:
Aug 21, 11:21 AM (GMT -04:00)
Only Jim has held one as far as I know
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Sheryl Breuker said:
Aug 21, 11:21 AM (GMT -04:00)
I'm so jealous of Jim!
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Dan Rockwell said:
Aug 21, 11:18 AM (GMT -04:00)
true, but the message it sends stings, here is this promise, this cool thing, you love that song, and btw, it will expire in 178 days, enjoy it while you can
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Sheryl Breuker said:
Aug 21, 11:17 AM (GMT -04:00)
But there are always ways around that...especially if you're putting this stuff on your iphone/ipod
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Dan Rockwell said:
Aug 21, 11:17 AM (GMT -04:00)
songs that time out?!? thats typical marketing trap crap, i cant wait for people to hack that
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Dan Rockwell said:
Aug 21, 11:17 AM (GMT -04:00)
that would suck!!
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Dan Rockwell said:
Aug 21, 11:17 AM (GMT -04:00)
its a net to capture people, and locks them into that experience, its apple's first MMORPG, subscription based net
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Dan Rockwell said:
Aug 21, 11:16 AM (GMT -04:00)
a net
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Thomas Purves said:
Aug 21, 11:15 AM (GMT -04:00)
this would be a carrier issue more than apple, chewing 3g capacity for no incremental revenue while competing with every carriers in-house music offerings and music stores
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Dan Rockwell said:
Aug 21, 11:15 AM (GMT -04:00)
its unlimited on apples terms not yours
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Dan Rockwell said:
Aug 21, 11:14 AM (GMT -04:00)
2008 is turning into the year of the cloud
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Dan Rockwell said:
Aug 21, 11:12 AM (GMT -04:00)
sadly 3G was a death sentence for pandora, before the 3G phone we just used it on wifi and it flew under the radar just fine
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Thomas Purves said:
Aug 21, 11:11 AM (GMT -04:00)
recently increased webcasting royalty rates in the US are the problem
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Dan Rockwell said:
Aug 21, 11:11 AM (GMT -04:00)
lotta music doom news lately, muxtape got the axe, pandora next?
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Todd Spraggins said:
Aug 21, 11:11 AM (GMT -04:00)
RIAA
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Dan Rockwell said:
Aug 21, 11:10 AM (GMT -04:00)
the battle for constant awareness, look at me look at me
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Dan Rockwell said:
Aug 21, 11:09 AM (GMT -04:00)
i wonder if itunes unlimited is an indicator of the competition sneaking in
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Dan Rockwell said:
Aug 21, 11:06 AM (GMT -04:00)
check out iVote on the iphone, that came out a few days ago too
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