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That mobile platform has already arrived. It's called Windows Mobile. I was surprised too: my wife has a 3GS and I was planning to get one for myself too. Ins
by nickpp 17y ago
That mobile platform has already arrived. It's called Windows Mobile.
I was surprised too: my wife has a 3GS and I was planning to get one for myself too.
Instead I got a HTC Diamond2 which I plan to upgrade to a HTC HD2. I'm a developer, not a essay-writing millionaire. I like platforms that are Powerful, flexible and CUSTOMIZABLE to my taste. I like pretty too, but form has to follow function, not the other way around.
On WinMo, thanks to xda-developers I belong to an AMAZING (real, not wannabe) hacker culture and environment. The latest HTC ROMs are sleeker and better than the iPhone. More useful and immensely customizable.
My wife still has to click an "App" to get to her favorites... mine are on the first page. Which first page is GORGEOUS, not an old matrix of icons.
But the most important part... my phone is HACKABLE. My wife's is like my ps3: untouchable.
- forensic 17y agoBut does your wife want a hackable phone? Does she really care? Does she want to have to deal with it when she downloads an app that sounds cool and it ends up installing spyware on her machine and drains her battery and drops her phonecalls? Or would she maybe rather give up some hackable freedom for ease-of-use and a promise of a protected experience?
- nickpp 17y agoNo she doesn't. She's perfectly happy with the iPhone. Even if she envies the functionality on my HTC sometimes. But the discussion here were HACKER phones, not consumer phones.