Smartphone softcore: making out in the cab edition

Think the Great Leveling won't change everything?

An American company, Google, wants to make more money on ads. They create a smartphone OS and give it away for free. Thousands of miles away, on a rock in the Pacific, called Taiwan, a company decides to use that free software and their incredible manufacturing prowess, that once America had, and make smartphones.

Carriers everywhere, wanting a selection, and hoping to capture (mobile) broadband revenues start selling those smartphones. And services that never existed, that can now survive -- or flourish -- thanks to all these smartphones, like Facebook, Twitter, Yelp, become worth billions. And then we can compare prices around the world at the point of presence, putting pressure on anyone that sells anything.

And giants like Microsoft, with $40 billion in cash, try desperately to crack into this new market, this new world.

But I digress...

This post is all about the clever, Apple-esque advertising that HTC uses to show off their latest smartphone. But, really, they're not showing off their smartphone, they are merely reminding you of all that you are and all that you can be.