December 09, 2013 at 09:46AM

Good Morning VietTom. @acedtect

— Jo Bob (@yochanon) December 9, 2013

December 05, 2013 at 08:28AM

Not understanding how people don't know/don't care that they're chewing with their mouth open. #cudmouth

— Jo Bob (@yochanon) December 5, 2013

November 21, 2013 at 10:44PM

#CatchingFire number 1 movie fo sho!

— Jo Bob (@yochanon) November 22, 2013

November 20, 2013 at 01:28PM

not everything free. LOL

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— Jo Bob (@yochanon) November 20, 2013

November 19, 2013 at 06:33AM

omg! i'm being followed by @shwood. It's time to DIAF!

— Jo Bob (@yochanon) November 19, 2013

Let the short sightedness continue...

The buzz after Google I/O has been all about Jellybean and the Nexus devices that utilize it.  And while the Samsung Galaxy Nexus is now banned in the US and the Nexus 7 is quite obviously the best 7" Android tablet to date, the Nexus Q is being decried as DOA by pundits such as Leo LaPorte from TWiT.  Why would such a misunderstood device be receiving such a poor reception?  I began to wonder this and chose to delve a little deeper into the philosophy and thinking behind the Nexus Q and came out with an interesting look into the evolution of home tech being brought to us by the geeks at Google.

My first step on this journey was to find out about what Google insiders said this device could do.

Old ideas?

It wasn't long ago that we used to buy devices for.org homes or offices that came basically as blank slates. Just.the basic template to put our OS on, No matter our preference. If you liked windows, that is what you would use. Prefer Linux? You had several choices. Or more interesting choices like like Mac or IBM, those were available too.
Now though, we have our powerful phones and fancy tablets that come with built in operating systems that we may or may not like. We could get our hands dirty, void our warranties, and mod our devices with something in an all too complicated, for some, manner. Hopefully not irreversibly bricking our device in the process.
Why haven't Microsoft and Google convinced manufacturers to make devices that the users can choose the OS? I personally have an awesome phone in with the Motorola Droid Bionic but I would like to give windows phone 8 a try. I do not want to have to buy a less powerful phone to do it. And why can't any phone be a nexus device that receives its OS updates directly from Google?

This is my plea to phone manufacturers. Free our phones from the oppressive draconian hold of the carriers and their backward thoughts of feature phone OS.