mark hensley wrote:
> And who in their right mind would rely on a 3rd party to be
> responsible for somwthing as important as an email client.
>
> Give me a break. You guys are trying way to hard to come up with
> excuses and justification for such a dismal piece of programming.
> There is no excuse. And they better get it together before Android
> fails because of the dismal rollout to date.
Hi, Mark. Given that I'm writing this on a Linux box and released my
first bit of open-source code in '92, I am a big fan of open-source
software and the open-source culture.
However, I agree with you on this completely. If they had wanted to roll
this out as a product suitable only for open-source developers and early
adopters, there were ways to do this. They could have started up a
developer program and sold a few thousand units rather than going for a
big public rollout and selling hundreds of thousands.
Given its position as a competitor to other smartphones, it really
should have had decent email. And they seem to agree; I note that at
tmobile-g1.com, they say:
"Your life is in your email, and that makes the T-Mobile G1 your
lifeline. Easily access your GMail and other email accounts with
just a touch."
Saying that while shipping the G1 with real email support only for
Google's proprietary system is ridiculous. And defending this with the
standard open-source "patches welcome" defense is equally ridiculous.
Google and T1 are selling a consumer product, and using consumer
marketing methods. That's a different world than free software, and
Google should know the difference.
William
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