I appreciate the discussion as this was what I hoped for. I'm personally not all that savvy about the "deep details" about how OSs work to think of the many problems or advantages. I was also thinking about reverse convergence, if you will. I've read much about cell phones really cutting into the P&S market and was thinking about how hard it would be to put a cell phone in s DSLR. I know it might sound silly but if my EVIL/MILC/CSC/Photopunk E-P1 had cell phone capabilities I might very well carry it rather than my cell phone. After all, the new ones have touch screens, microphones, etc. Can apps be far behind?
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 8:24 AM, Doug Franklin <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2011-08-10 23:26, Bob Sullivan wrote: > >> What I remember was how closed Apple was with their system versus how >> open IBM was. >> Didn't they want 3rd parties to add to their system versus Apple not >> really... > > Well, Bob, that's why I called it a miscalculation rather than a mistake. > Yes, they did want third-parties to easily be able to produce compatible > products for use with the IBM PC product line quickly and easily (for that > time). But they "opened their kimono" much too wide and too cheaply, and > ended up with people cloning the base product. I've worked with other > companies who have similar motives over the years. Many of them learned the > lesson. You can get information just as detailed, but you have to enter > into a contract with them to get access to it. It's not just out there for > anybody with a couple of hundred bucks. > > -- > Thanks, > DougF (KG4LMZ) > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- Steve Desjardins -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
