No iPhone for Jakeo
Steve Jobs:
“You don’t want your phone to be an open platform,” said Jobs, referring to the concept of any phone owner writing applications for it. “You need it to work when you need it to work. Cingular doesn’t want to see their West Coast network go down because some application messed up.”
What is Cingular’s network built on? Duct tape and fishing line?
With open source phones starting to spring up, Apple has a big opportunity here they are going to miss. This closed source approach is why Apple stinks IMHO. DRM is another issue, but that discussion is for another day.
to me the cellphone space still look like a witches brew of free agents competing over scraps without any real awareness of a bigger opportunity… if they could get their act together over the basic idea of making those 64 bits of information free… we’d all tra la la through flowery fields of bliss i am sure.
playing in somebody elses sandbox, with their image of prescribed activities is not fun…
For further reading, walled gardens and the iPhone are a hot topic in this months Geowankers discussion.
–jake
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cingular’s network is built on rats nests and rotten eggs. the network constantly failed when i was there - and they have so many internal apps that don’t work, i’m surprised that their actual wireless systems are running. fewest dropped calls, my azzzzzzz
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