Salve Rob! On 12/15/06, Robert Michel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
And who think know - "nice" - but this will no "killer application for a phone" does still haven't understood that beside good core phone function there will be no single "killer application" for a smartphone. smartphone = mobil PC + GSM/GPRS In my eyes is the "killer function" of OpenMoko/Neo1973 that nearly everything that you could do with a PC will be possible to do with this smartphone.
Apple doesn't have 'killer applications' as such, but each application which comes close draws upon a consistent coherent interface - the 'just works' philosophy. I'd say this is even more crucial for a mobile phone as you have less opportunity to 'fix' things without ready access to a keyboard. Unfortunately, all the major brands have the 'just works' thing already, by tightly controlling which software can or can't run on a particular phone. I'd imagine this will cause headaches for the OpenMoko maintainers - do you allow a potentially 'killer' application onto the feed, even if it doesn't play as nice with the rest of the system as it could? I really can't wait to see how this is addressed in OpenMoko! Richard _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
