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Does anyone see a downside for this? I mean, iphone/apple will continue on its merry way. Windows Mobile will continue to be frustrated (but MS won't ever let
by michaelneale 19y ago
Does anyone see a downside for this?
I mean, iphone/apple will continue on its merry way. Windows Mobile will continue to be frustrated (but MS won't ever let it die no matter how much money it costs). OpenMoko looks DOA now, all other proprietary ones will either fade, or just go back to being in the real low end 2 dollar plastic throwaways.
I don't really see a downside, this stuff was ripe for disruption. Kudos to google for putting serious resources into making this happen.
- davidw 19y agoLooks good to me, the only "problem" is that not everyone will have this as fast as developers might like, so we'll have to keep working on old phone compatibility for the foreseeable future.
- michaelneale 19y agoWell, things have sucked so bad so far, knowing they will suck less at some point is certainly a relief. I swear the handset makers and telcos couldn't get laid in a whorehouse. It took apple to wade in and do it themselves to shake it up. Now google have gone "sod it, this is how you should do it - no go and make useful internet devices you children".
- davidw 19y agoI am excited by the idea of what they're doing, and I think they're likely to do something very cool, but I'll wait to pronounce judgment until there are a lot of devices being released from different manufacturers, over the course of several years, and several upgrades in the underlying platform. Only then will we have a good idea of how things have been managed.