One thing I'm glad is that they didn't release a new Nexus tablet... unless I missed that announcement! I'm trying to off-load my ASUS tablet, and having a cheap competitor (with possibly better specs) would probably hurt my bottom line.
Oh, one thing that I found interesting was the whole Google Now on the computer. Now, I was just reading Live Blogs, so I may not have gotten the full picture. Is that going to be something that just runs on our PC, and we can simply talk and have our PC do stuff for us like our phone would? I think it could be a lot of fun to try it out. I'm not sure if it's as useful on a computer as it is on a mobile device since the biggest benefit of Siri for me is avoiding having to type long search queries on a touch screen. I can type pretty quickly, so that's not a big deal on a PC!
They don't lower your bill. If you buy the phone outright that simply means you aren't financing the phone, so you obviously wouldn't have to pay the extra monthly amount for the loan. The plan price does not change.
We're really saying the exact same thing, but I figured people understood what I meant by "reducing your price."
You've been reading too many of those sensationalist "subsidized pricing is evil" threads.
Why do you say that? My post didn't have any negative remarks about subsidies. I simply claimed that if you're on AT&T, then you can purchase the same hardware (not the same firmware) two different ways for a significant difference in price ($450 difference), but there's no monthly difference. In other words, is the out-of-the-box "unchained" phone that worthwhile?
I don't think that subsidies are a terrible thing, but I really do wish that companies were more transparent about them like T-Mobile is now. However, that really goes against the grain of a business making the choice that garners the most profit without truly hurting their bottom line.