On Jan 25, 2008 8:14 PM, Shawn Rutledge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 25, 2008 5:42 PM, hank williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Again, since you seem to have missed it. The thing that you say no one > > will opt for (over the air maps), is the way that millions of phones > > per month are shipped from Apple and RIM today. Therefore the > > configuration is highly relevant to the *current* phone market. > > The point that you are missing is that Openmoko doesn't have to do > everything the same way Apple and RIM do them;
Of course no one has to do anything the way Apple and RIM do it. I think you are missing *my* point. My initial post was that there is a patent that has an effect on the most common usage pattern for location based tools for mobile devices. The odd position, it seems to me, is to suggest that no one should be concerned about a very popular device usage pattern. Obviously there are lots of ways to design things, but to suggest that one very popular way (in fact the primary way) people are doing something is of *no concern* would seem to me to be a myopic attitude. My goal is to provide information. The idea of suggesting that that information "doesn't matter" which is what Joerg said, is really well... I wont say. I am not sure why providing information should be something that disturbs people so. If its not relevant to you, ignore it. Hank _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community