> From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of > Daniel J. Matyola > > If they were so good, why did they abandon those designs and begin to > imitate the iPhone? >
they didn't abandon those designs. Mobile phone shops are full of phones that are clearly not imitating the iPhone, and just as full of people buying them. Some mobile phones - some, but not all - obviously are jumping on the iPhone bandwagon, but it's a long way from that to saying that other designs have been abandoned. As far as the software and usability goes, these things leap-frog each other, and always have done. Innovation and creativity thrive by stealing other people's ideas and building on them. Think of the Beatles and the Beach Boys. Picasso said "Good artists borrow. Great artists steal". Guess what? Steve Jobs said that too. B > I also like diversity. We can have it, if companies develop their > ideas and dare to be different. The problem is that, once the iPhone > came out, the competition found it easier and safer to follow what > Apple was doing, instead of developing innovative new products that > would be different from, and competitive with, the iPhone. > Dan Matyola > http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola > > > On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 3:33 AM, Bob W <p...@web-options.com> wrote: > > > this is simply not true. I had a couple of smartphones for years > > before the iPhone. They ran Windows Mobile and synced perfectly with > > Outlook on my desktop, and had pretty much all the functionality I > > have now on my Android phone. In fact, they synched far better than > > the Android. The advantages of the newer stuff are better wifi > (wireless sync is good) and better internet. > > But the older phones had good operating systems for their day and for > > the technology available back then, like needing a stylus for screen > touching. > > > > B > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
