On Sunday 08 June 2008 02:28:42 Carsten Haitzler wrote: > On Sat, 07 Jun 2008 12:19:08 -0700 Dave O'Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled: > > Just out of interest, why don't other countries get access to these > > components sooner? Why do Japanese consumers get them first? Do they pay > > significantly more than the rest on phones so they're a better market > > for manufacturers or could openmoko steal a lead here in the rest of the > > world? > > > > Might it be an idea to appeal to these component manufacturers > > competitive sides and say "if you give us the specs to write open > > drivers we can give you sales in the rest of the world"? > > japanese phones are all about tech specs - and that's it. well that and > looking sexy (nice design/cases). usability is pretty poor. their software > and ui's are atrocious mostly. but that doesn't matter because they can do > the "i'm cooler than you. my phone has more pixels!" (irrespective if they > can even use more than 10% of the features of the phone, nor see the pixels > they have so many of...) :)
Hehe, I was surprised that they could market products because they use one sort of freescale's arm cores... funny people. z. _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community