CardinalFang;168945 Wrote: > It does, but it's not possible to download media except by a connection > to a Mac/PC. The WiFi seems to be solely for web browsing, although the > problem with WiFi outside the home is the lack of roaming agreements > between WiFi providers.
Widgets (as shown) obviously need the ability to communicate online, how else could the Weather app show its data? And the Google Maps app... would you call that web browsing? Looked like a dedicated app. And then, it's MacOSX. CardinalFang;168945 Wrote: > Plus you can't use it without the cell phone part, so even after the two > years is up, you have to have a cellular agreement. I've read a bunch of sites quoting the Keynote, and watched it myself. Didn't hear or read that anyway. CardinalFang;168945 Wrote: > No replaceable batteries, Who said that? Can't really tell from the Keynote & pictures imho. CardinalFang;168945 Wrote: > no memory expansion, Who said that? Can't really tell from the Keynote & pictures imho. CardinalFang;168945 Wrote: > no games or 3rd party applications, So the widgets shown during the keynote are not third-party, and you think that they'll contrary to widgets on the other MacOSX, they'll limit the number of widgets that can be run? Just take a look on how well Apple supported software developers over the past 20+ years. CardinalFang;168945 Wrote: > it's a closed system for Apple and friends only so far, And I always thought that MacOSX is based on BSD... that you could even download the Darwin part... might be the GUI is closed source, but since its MacOSX, widgets are already well documented and for the rest... do you expect Apple to change MacOSX radically to make all the existing documentation void, just after they announced they took MacOSX to NOT develop something new? I'm still sceptical whether typing text on the device would be fast enough for me, but there's one thing that's great: they actually cared about use the PHONE. Take a look at all those smartphones out there, and using it to call someone seems to be the most neglected part of the whole device. -- CCRDude ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CCRDude's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8478 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31507 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
