http://decafbad.com/blog/2007/01/12/the-iphone-will-not-be-your-new-mobile-computer It's all spinning wheels and self-doubt until the first pot of coffee. Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:06:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8-bleeding-edge hourly 1 http://decafbad.com/blog/2007/01/12/the-iphone-will-not-be-your-new-mobile-computer/comment-page-1#comment-68040 Steven Fri, 12 Jan 2007 19:35:44 +0000 http://decafbad.com/blog/2007/01/12/the-iphone-will-not-be-your-new-mobile-computer#comment-68040 <p>I haven't heard of a major crisis being caused by user-installed software on (1) Symbian phones, (2) Palm phones, (3) Java phones, (4) Windows phones. A smartphone is supposed to be a productivity device, unlike an iPod.</p> I haven’t heard of a major crisis being caused by user-installed software on (1) Symbian phones, (2) Palm phones, (3) Java phones, (4) Windows phones. A smartphone is supposed to be a productivity device, unlike an iPod.

]]> http://decafbad.com/blog/2007/01/12/the-iphone-will-not-be-your-new-mobile-computer/comment-page-1#comment-67967 Sencer Fri, 12 Jan 2007 16:11:07 +0000 http://decafbad.com/blog/2007/01/12/the-iphone-will-not-be-your-new-mobile-computer#comment-67967 <p>Of course there are hardware manufacturers that build smartphones which are interested in an open platform and a software eco-system. Like the greenphone (trolltech) or the FIC Neo 1973, which I am personally more excited about, because all of the phones software will be opensourced (and the first gen has a more affordable price, too). Iin fact the software of the phone is more like a platform (openmoko) that will in the long term hopefully run on all kinds of hardware, and it decidedly different than all the other platforms, because it is not restricted to a sandbox, but allows access to all the software and hardware.</p> Of course there are hardware manufacturers that build smartphones which are interested in an open platform and a software eco-system. Like the greenphone (trolltech) or the FIC Neo 1973, which I am personally more excited about, because all of the phones software will be opensourced (and the first gen has a more affordable price, too). Iin fact the software of the phone is more like a platform (openmoko) that will in the long term hopefully run on all kinds of hardware, and it decidedly different than all the other platforms, because it is not restricted to a sandbox, but allows access to all the software and hardware.

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