CCRDude;168983 Wrote: > I watched the updates on engadget yesterday getting updated and updated > and updated... I assume we speak about this here? > http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/the-apple-iphone > Where exactly does it tell about batteries or memory extensions? Except > in dozens of contradicting user comments? >
>From Time Magazine: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1575410-2,00.html "You can't download songs directly onto it from the iTunes store, you have to export them from a computer. And even though it's got WiFi and Bluetooth on it, you can't sync iPhone with a computer wirelessly. And there should be games on it. And you're required to use it as a phone—you can't use it without signing up for cellular service. Boo." >From Engadget: http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/the-iphone-is-not-a-smartphone/ And the reality slowly sets in about what the iPhone is and is not. Noted analyst and Engadget pal Michael Gartenberg stated that the iPhone is first party software ONLY -- i.e. not a smartphone by conventional terms, being that a smartphone is a platform device that allows software to be installed. That means hungry power-users -- you know, those people ready and willing to plunk down $600 for an 8GB musicphone -- won't be able to extend the functionality of their phone any more than Apple (but thankfully not Cingular) dictates. Other unfortunate realities about the device: * No 3G. We know you know, but still, it hurts man. * No over the air iTunes Store downloads or WiFi syncing to your host machine. * No expandable memory. * No removable battery. * No Exchange or Office support. CCRDude;168983 Wrote: > > Interesting... am I doing something illegal then? We've developed a > cellphone application that downloads updated from the Internet (for > both Symbian and Windows CE/Mobile). I'm pretty sure Vodafone (the one > I use for testing) hasn't approved, and I'm even more sure I don't pay > them a cut of it. And this application has been tested with dozens of > other providers by our users. > What you have produced is a downloadable app for open systems on Smartphones that can open a HTTP link to get more data, which is a tiny market compared to the rest of the cellphones out there that run Java and Brew and where often you can't do that, or if you can via web portals, it's such a tiny market that it's not worth it. Also, in case you haven't yet felt it, Smartphone software gets ripped off and appears on web pages within hours if it's any good. It's not illegal, but it's not much of a business either :-( I was CTO of one of the leading mobile gaming publishers and technology developers - pm me if you want the details - and we produced games for Vodafone and Verizon for the launch of their 3G services and created top selling games for Disney, Sony and others on all of the US majors. For the *vast majority* of handsets, ie. the mass market ones that sell in the millions, you have to sell the applications through the operator portals using their billing and provisioning systems and only after it has gained their approval. You can go off deck, but you won't sell anything. It also gets placed on decks according to rules laid down by those operators and that's highly influenced by branding, marketing budgets and well, who you are. It's clear that Apple and Cingular will control the market for applications to recoup the money invested. It isn't a Smartphone in the true sense as a result and it will be 1st party or the big boys apps only. It's a native development environment and rogue apps from geeks are an issue. Can you do that right now for the iPod, or do games come from approved parties? And I mean real business, not the odd hacked version of Doom. Where the open market for games and apps on the iPod? The same will apply for the iPhone or whatever tey call it after the dust settles. -- CardinalFang ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CardinalFang's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=962 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31507 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
