[Coda]

I read up on the SPP thing, and it's a sad story on all fronts. On the one side, it sounds like Slide didn't do a very good job of managing the transition even before the official transfer. And it's unfair to expect any company -- even Google -- to be forced to continue operating a service they don't want. And the people who tried to deal with it with a lawsuit made a lot of mistakes (bad lawyers?) that ended up with the whole thing getting swept under a rug. But on the other hand, I have to feel bad for the users who got caught up in the mess, especially the people who thought that services being discontinued was a reason to rush in and buy stuff at the last minute. It all happened pretty quickly, all told.