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Why Open Source Phones Still Fail
adeelarshad82 writes "Truly open-development, open-source phones like the Nokia N900 will never hit the mainstream in the US because wireless carriers in the country hate the unexpected, writes PCMag's Sascha Segan. The open-source philosophy is all about unexpected, disruptive ideas bubbling upwards, and that drives network planners nuts. So, you get unsatisfactory hybrids like Google Android, which uses some open-source components but locks third-party developers into a crippled Java sandbox. The bottom line is that while Linux the OS, the kernel, and the memory manager are attractive to phone manufacturers, Linux the philosophy — and users banding together ad hoc to create new things — is anathema to wireless carriers."
then how do you explain MS-DOS and the first several generations of Windows.
Read the post again asshat. It said CONSUMER MARKET. Are you too stupid to recognize what that means? Not to mention anything about easier systems being available today. When you need to use a technology you use it even if it's painful. When something easier comes out you migrate to it. If you need a fucking car analogy that your little brain can wrap around think stick versus auto.
All of this "but it's so hard" nonsense sounds nice if you just fell off the turnip truck yesterday and have never actually used Linux. Otherwise it's simply absurd.
I do use Linux but I'm not such an asshole as to dismiss the end user experience. Don't be a fucking fool and learn how to use HTML in such a way that your posts don't look like they're written by a 9 year old making GeoCities site for his favorite Transformer.
If what you say were really true, Apple would have put Microsoft out of business a very long time ago.
At those premiums? You must be joking. Again don't be a fucking moron. Most end users don't care much about 550 USD versus 600 USD but when you're asking for 1300 dollars for a model that is the same in the eyes of the end user? That's a big difference. Sorry that you couldn't reason this out on your own.
Now it might be accurate to say that people favor "predictable hard to use malware infested CRAP that they are used to" versus anything else. They would rather eat the dirt they know rather than try something new. THAT would be an accurate observation based on the actual facts.
Yeah. You've presented so many facts. You're just full of shit and you know it. Most of the shit said about Windows here is largely exaggerated. The average end user doesn't download \X/aR3z and most use a firewall today. The crap your spreading about malware is actually on it's way out even as we speak.