On Fri, Jun 06, 2008, Shachar Shemesh wrote about "Re: Anti-RTL mindset is similar to anti-accessibility mindset": > We are trying to get someone from Google to talk about Android during > August Penguin, but my main concern with it is that, at least so far, it > appears like it will not be very open. It is an open platform, in the > sense that anyone can write software for it. This is a great improvement > over other phones, and definitely an iPhone killer, but it is not > sufficient reason for me to forgo my OpneMoko hopes.
My hopes is that it will be as open as the "Palm Pilot" of almost a decade ago. Meaning that everyone can write software for it (not necessarily the crappy software that the phone company thought I needed), software that has access to most of the capabilities of the phone (not those useless "Java Games" that some of today's phones have) - and most importantly - software that I can install without paying all sorts of extortionists^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hmiddlemen like my phone company and all those disgusting "content companies" that you see advertising to children (for them, it seems sensible that if they get a child to send one SMS to them, they can bill him how much they want, again and again, and go with impunity). Frankly, being able to modify the drivers of the phone or the basic OS, and similar low-level stuff (which you couldn't do on the Plam Pilot) is low on my wish list. I also assume that many of these things will be very specific to each phone model, so it won't be practical to modify them anyway. -- Nadav Har'El | Sunday, Jun 8 2008, 5 Sivan 5768 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Linux *is* user-friendly. Not http://nadav.harel.org.il |idiot-friendly, but user-friendly. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
