In the 8bit computing days, manufacturers would provide computers with software with wonderful features advertised, which hardly ever never worked. The maunfacturers were interested in sales, not service. Plus ca change...
What happened in those days, of course, is IBM jackboots, 16-bit, and this upstart little company called Microsoft. I promise you, in those days, Microsoft's products were stunningly reliable. It's one of the reason why they won the market. This time, IMHO, M$ are part of the problem.
If history is to repeat, so we get reliably complex phones, then a standard mobile phone architecture needs to appear, and the hardware manufacturers and network operators need to lose control of the software that appears on phones.
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In the 8bit computing days, manufacturers would provide computers with software with wonderful features advertised, which hardly ever never worked. The maunfacturers were interested in sales, not service. Plus ca change...
What happened in those days, of course, is IBM jackboots, 16-bit, and this upstart little company called Microsoft. I promise you, in those days, Microsoft's products were stunningly reliable. It's one of the reason why they won the market. This time, IMHO, M$ are part of the problem.
If history is to repeat, so we get reliably complex phones, then a standard mobile phone architecture needs to appear, and the hardware manufacturers and network operators need to lose control of the software that appears on phones.
Could any company do it? Apple? AT&T? Ikea?