I had and loved a Zaurus C3000 until it was recently stolen. I used it for all sorts of things it was never inteded to do, thanks to the rather large developer community that sprang up around the device.
I decided against purchasing another though. Instead, I went with a Nokia N800 and bluetooth keyboard. I'm just as happy as I was with the Zaurus, and in some cases happier. The screen is much larger, built-in bluetooth and WiFi, two SD slots that can now handle 4gig each out of the box, and truthfully, I never did much like the thumb keyboard on the Zaurus (but it was probably the most usable of all the thumb boards out there). I ended up carrying around a USB keyboard to use with the Zaurus.
If I had one complaint about the N800, it's the applications. It takes a while to hunt down all the repositories to find everything you want, but it's doable. I think that's now changing, as more developers appear and maemo.org is becoming the central place to go for apps. Granted, the N800 is marketed as an "Internet Tablet" and is really pretty good at that, but like the Zaurus, I'm pushing it to do things it wasn't intended to. I'm thankful there are enough developers out there to provide the apps people want. And Nokia seems rather open to the developers, unlike Sharp, who did nothing but alienate the developers.
Do a WHOIS on the domain... not sure how comfortable I am pasting it here.
Let's just say... it just oozes professionalism. And seems to have nothing to do with Microsoft
Judging by the comments thus far, no one has bothered to do what you just did.
Hopefully, you'll be modded up and people will get a clue.
Openoffice and Ubuntu are completey separate entities, owned by two completely different companies.
Windows and MS Office come from the same corporation.
But even if you don't consider that, I doubt that Microsoft would ever just throw in Office for free (even if it were bundled, you be paying a premium). Office is their main cash cow.
Legally, no, because it's only licensed to run on Apple machines. My point, however, is that the basic OS is an open-sourced BSD derivative, which is how people are able to hack it to run on a Dell.
So what you should be saying then is that BSD can legally be run on a Dell (or any other intel box). OSX is NOT BSD. BSD makes up a part of OSX, but OSX does not make BSD. There are some very proprietary parts in OSX that you simply are not allowed to legally run on non-Apple hardware.
The iPhone (though I refuse to admit it is a good deal, or worth anything close to $500) is the first step in finally commoditizing wireless telephone service. Not allowing the carriers to screw up the phone's firmware is what companies like Nokia and Motorola should have done a decade ago.
RIM, with their Blackberries, were really the first ones to not allow carriers to screw up their firmware. It's really quite trivial as a normal user to do pretty much whatever you want with a Blackberry (provided you have a data plan).
As long as they're not specifying which version of Vista it will run, they'll easily find a way around that one. The lowest version of Vista should have no trouble on current hardware.
Is there a reason you put Europe (1 billion people) and Asia (4 billion people) on the same scale as the USA? (300 million)
Yes, there is a reason. He's talking about where Apple gets (and has always gotten) the majority of their revenue from. The US. It doesn't matter that Europe and Asia are bigger markets if they're not buying.
What you fail to understand is that the iPhone's main feature is not "it does more." The iPhone's main feature is "it does it better." If you don't get this, you're not the target audience.
Please tell me how the iPhone is doing it right right now. That was the point of my posting.
If you don get this, then you indeed are the target audience.
The Blackberry's around work do not play MP3's. They don't play video. Some of them browse the internet. But the functionality is limited to mostly email. If it came down to a Blackberry or an iPhone,
You might want to take a look at the current crop of Blackberrys. I own a Pearl and it does everything you say it can't. Effortlessly. And what you say is "limited to mostly email" can't be discounted. It's quite important to many people, an Apple is counting on its success with its own phone as well.
On a side note, when I went to the Cingular store to buy by Pearl, there was a woman there that was talking about waiting for the iPhone. She saw my phone and started asking questions. Once she saw waht it was capable of, she bought one too. She said she still will consider buying an iPhone in June when they're released, but frankly, if the iPhone doesn't offer significantly more than the smartphones already on the market, I don't see how it'll survive. Especially at the price they're quoting for a two year contract.
As you say, it still comes down to the wireless companies and what they will or won't allow you to do.
That said, I'm with Cingular, and I just purchased a Blackberry Pearl. Hands down the best phone I've ever owned. I can do anything with it, as far as putting various media on it and watching/listening to it. Cingular doesn't restrict me. Not only that, but there's a rather large Blackberry developer community out there that provides a large amount of software to run, albeit not free or even cheap.
If the Openmoko can get a lot of developers writing for it, I think it'll have a chance. At this point anything said about the iPhone is really hearsay, but if Apple/Cingular choose to restrict what software you can/can't put on it I think it'll have a much harder time than Jobs thinks. The whole point of a smartphone is to add useful software. And we all know useful is subjective.
What's the problem with using a Mac running Parallels?
Maybe because nothing in this posting suggests a Mac at all?
It's nice that that's your solution, but good grief, do the fanboys have to come out at every opportunity to suggest something that's not even being considered in the article?
The article is CLEARLY talking about IE7 on LINUX.
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I decided against purchasing another though. Instead, I went with a Nokia N800 and bluetooth keyboard. I'm just as happy as I was with the Zaurus, and in some cases happier. The screen is much larger, built-in bluetooth and WiFi, two SD slots that can now handle 4gig each out of the box, and truthfully, I never did much like the thumb keyboard on the Zaurus (but it was probably the most usable of all the thumb boards out there). I ended up carrying around a USB keyboard to use with the Zaurus.
If I had one complaint about the N800, it's the applications. It takes a while to hunt down all the repositories to find everything you want, but it's doable. I think that's now changing, as more developers appear and maemo.org is becoming the central place to go for apps. Granted, the N800 is marketed as an "Internet Tablet" and is really pretty good at that, but like the Zaurus, I'm pushing it to do things it wasn't intended to. I'm thankful there are enough developers out there to provide the apps people want. And Nokia seems rather open to the developers, unlike Sharp, who did nothing but alienate the developers.
Judging by the comments thus far, no one has bothered to do what you just did.
Hopefully, you'll be modded up and people will get a clue.
When someone posts as Anonymous Coward, their starting score is zero. Windows shills have nothing to do with it.
Nice knee jerk though.
Gurdie.
That's called "extra", not a disadvantage.
He said he got 5% more than he wanted. How could that be a disadvantage?
I disagree. We wouldn't see nearly as much Apple ads and billboards as we currently see (in the US, at least) if this were true.
They give you 5 Gig free. It's owned by AOL, but there don't seem to be any realy limitations placed on the user.
Windows and MS Office come from the same corporation.
But even if you don't consider that, I doubt that Microsoft would ever just throw in Office for free (even if it were bundled, you be paying a premium). Office is their main cash cow.
So what you should be saying then is that BSD can legally be run on a Dell (or any other intel box). OSX is NOT BSD. BSD makes up a part of OSX, but OSX does not make BSD. There are some very proprietary parts in OSX that you simply are not allowed to legally run on non-Apple hardware.
Um, no you can NOT legally do this.
I challenge you inform all of us how this is legally done.
RIM, with their Blackberries, were really the first ones to not allow carriers to screw up their firmware. It's really quite trivial as a normal user to do pretty much whatever you want with a Blackberry (provided you have a data plan).
As long as they're not specifying which version of Vista it will run, they'll easily find a way around that one. The lowest version of Vista should have no trouble on current hardware.
Yes, I know you've been around longer than I have.
Seriously?
Yeah, it works, but not nearly as seamless as with IE/Windows.
But make it in proportion to the Gates/Borg icon.
Please tell me how the iPhone is doing it right right now. That was the point of my posting.
If you don get this, then you indeed are the target audience.
Fanboys crack me up.
You might want to take a look at the current crop of Blackberrys. I own a Pearl and it does everything you say it can't. Effortlessly. And what you say is "limited to mostly email" can't be discounted. It's quite important to many people, an Apple is counting on its success with its own phone as well.
On a side note, when I went to the Cingular store to buy by Pearl, there was a woman there that was talking about waiting for the iPhone. She saw my phone and started asking questions. Once she saw waht it was capable of, she bought one too. She said she still will consider buying an iPhone in June when they're released, but frankly, if the iPhone doesn't offer significantly more than the smartphones already on the market, I don't see how it'll survive. Especially at the price they're quoting for a two year contract.
The complaint of charging extra to enable included hardware seems like a legitimate one to me.
That said, I'm with Cingular, and I just purchased a Blackberry Pearl. Hands down the best phone I've ever owned. I can do anything with it, as far as putting various media on it and watching/listening to it. Cingular doesn't restrict me. Not only that, but there's a rather large Blackberry developer community out there that provides a large amount of software to run, albeit not free or even cheap.
If the Openmoko can get a lot of developers writing for it, I think it'll have a chance. At this point anything said about the iPhone is really hearsay, but if Apple/Cingular choose to restrict what software you can/can't put on it I think it'll have a much harder time than Jobs thinks. The whole point of a smartphone is to add useful software. And we all know useful is subjective.
Maybe because nothing in this posting suggests a Mac at all?
It's nice that that's your solution, but good grief, do the fanboys have to come out at every opportunity to suggest something that's not even being considered in the article?
The article is CLEARLY talking about IE7 on LINUX.
It all comes down to the developer community.