2007-09-30 19:03:11.00457+00 by ebradway 3 comments
Can a CEO be any more schizophrenic? First, Jobs comes out blasting DRM. Later, he bricks early-adopter's $600 iPhones (just a few weeks after slapping them in the face with a 33% price cut). And with Vista driving Windows XP sales, the big players are trying as hard as they can to make Ubuntu look good! Not to mention other open projects like the OpenMoko - the cell phone that the manufacturer WANTS you to modify!
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#Comment Re: made: 2007-09-30 22:48:35.265836+00 by: Dan Lyke
Mark Hershberger linked to Russell Beattie: Aw, gee... Apple doesn't love those hacks:
Like the codependent spouse of an abusive alcoholic, the Apple zealots just keep coming back for more.
Well, I hope at least the sex is good.
I'm looking forward to the OpenMoko phone too, especially since it sounds like they've left a couple of GPIO pins open.
Steve has been pushing the "Mac as appliance" (ie: glorified toaster) notion since the Mac was introduced. It's only now that computing technology is getting to the point where he can completely control the process. If you didn't see it coming, you weren't paying attention.
#Comment Re: made: 2007-10-01 02:18:39.424421+00 by: JT [edit history]
Trolltech the company that has the rights to QT (what KDE is based on) actually has a nice phone called QTopia based on QT. I thought of getting one, but then I'd have to learn how to code using QT...
#Comment Re: made: 2007-10-01 13:56:39.522686+00 by: Dan Lyke
Apple Users Talking Class-Action Lawsuit Over iPhone Locking... Hello, what part of the Apple product direction for the past two and a half decades didn't they understand?