RE: [backstage] Android UK launch set for Tuesday
I still don't see why a non developer or non geek would want the google phone over windows mobile? Maybe its just me? Ian Forrester This e-mail is: [x] private; [] ask first; [] bloggable Senior Producer, BBC Backstage Room 1044, BBC Manchester BH, Oxford Road, M60 1SJ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] work: +44 (0)2080083965 mob: +44 (0)7711913293 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sam Mbale Sent: 20 September 2008 11:52 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] Android UK launch set for Tuesday same day as Germany Developer day, September 23rd -- Munich, Germany http://code.google.com/intl/de/events/developerday/2008/home.html I have won a bet, drink up! On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 9:06 PM, Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I feel an early adoption coming on... http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2226543/android-uk-launch-set-tuesday http://news.google.co.uk/news?rlz=1B3GGGL_enGB288GB289tab=wnncl=1247938204hl=en -- Brian Butterworth http://www.ukfree.tv - independent digital television and switchover advice, since 2002 -- Sam Mbale Mpelembe Network http://www.mpelembe.net Follow me on http://twitter.com/mpelembe
Re: [backstage] Android UK launch set for Tuesday
surely the proof of android's pudding will be in the eating? non-geeks i know who used WinMo were utterly flummoxed by it. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
Re: [backstage] Android UK launch set for Tuesday
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 5:47 PM, Jim Tonge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: surely the proof of android's pudding will be in the eating? non-geeks i know who used WinMo were utterly flummoxed by it. +1 to both those statements. I don't know any non-geeks who get on well with WinMo (but several geeks who love it). Anecdotal experience, I know, but hey :) Phil - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
RE: [backstage] Android UK launch set for Tuesday
But this is the point right. If you’re not a geek, why would you consider the Gphone which looks like those scary windows mobile devices? Unlike Apple, there won't be any special data plans or special price points. Ian Forrester This e-mail is: [x] private; [] ask first; [] bloggable Senior Producer, BBC Backstage Room 1044, BBC Manchester BH, Oxford Road, M60 1SJ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] work: +44 (0)2080083965 mob: +44 (0)7711913293 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Phil Wilson Sent: 22 September 2008 18:39 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] Android UK launch set for Tuesday On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 5:47 PM, Jim Tonge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: surely the proof of android's pudding will be in the eating? non-geeks i know who used WinMo were utterly flummoxed by it. +1 to both those statements. I don't know any non-geeks who get on well with WinMo (but several geeks who love it). Anecdotal experience, I know, but hey :) Phil - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
Re: [backstage] Android UK launch set for Tuesday
2008/9/22 Ian Forrester [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I still don't see why a non developer or non geek would want the google phone over windows mobile? Maybe its just me? I'm totally ignorant, but I hadn't seen a WinMo do anything like the gPhone/iPhone's animated UI. (Apple doesn't even allow the public to see the API for its canvas, because iPhone apps are webapps, but Google has made Skia free software; Skia is the high performance canvas library that doesn't require a 3D graphics chip, that makes all the iPhone-style bouncy UI animation fly) Cheers, Dave - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
Re: [backstage] Android UK launch set for Tuesday
Ok, I see what you mean. Although: - Web n Walk (it's on T-Mobile, right?) is £5 a month for unlimited internet. - Google is a brand non-geeks trust - if they market it with Google search, Gmail, YouTube and Maps they're laughing. As Apple rightly surmised, people do want the lighter side of geek functionality, just not the headache of getting it to work. I think most phones can do what the iPhone does anyway - they just make it so difficult people don't bother. My sister wanted an iPhone on the strength of its Facebook webapp alone, until I pointed out she could have similar access with her 3G-enabled Sony Ericsson and Opera mini. I guess my point is that it's down to how well it works and how well they market it, natch. On 22 Sep 2008, at 19:07, Ian Forrester wrote: But this is the point right. If you’re not a geek, why would you consider the Gphone which looks like those scary windows mobile devices? Unlike Apple, there won't be any special data plans or special price points. Ian Forrester This e-mail is: [x] private; [] ask first; [] bloggable - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
Re: [backstage] Manchester Free Software Talk: Dave Crossland - Free as in Profit
Brian Butterworth wrote: I'd quite like to come, but can't. I just love font internals*. Looking forward to the video, Dave. Just to follow this up, I have the video, I just need to convert it from DV raw to something people might want to download ie. not 1GB/min ish I am waiting for some hardware, and then I should have the video up. Good talk by the way Dave! Tim -- www.tdobson.net If each of us have one object, and we exchange them, then each of us still has one object. If each of us have one idea, and we exchange them, then each of us now has two ideas. - George Bernard Shaw - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
