On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 22:37 +0200, Jani-Matti Hätinen wrote: > IMHO opening the platform and competing with the iPhone have very > little in common. The iPhone (and Apple products in general) aren't > exactly appealing to those of us who value openness and freedom.
Exactly. I am one of the few people who _don't_ think the iPhone is anything special (or much less "OMG the greatest thing since sliced bread" which we've been hearing from more than a few of the fanboyz) as it stands now. It's probably rather similar to existing hardware on the inside...they might marginally impress me if, say, it really _does_ run Mac OS X (not something totally different _called_ OS X) on a new arch like ARM or if they put an embedded PPC chip in there...which is relatively unusual compared to the usage of ARM. But I _do_ value openness and freedom, and I have been pretty much consistently disappointed by Nokia's decisions over the course of the 770's software development. When I buy hardware, I buy with an eye to free and open Linux support. Which is why I own _no_ nVidia hardware and the only ATI card I have (but don't use) is a 7xxx-something. Not only does voting with your wallet mean something, it will give you an easier time of using _your_ hardware under the best OS on the planet. :-) Andrew (who is waiting for Rockbox to come to his 2G iPod Nano) _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list [email protected] https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
