Nokia N810 and other handhelds

[Bill McGonigle]

On 2008-12-03 11:01 PM, Ben Scott wrote:
>
>    Does such a thing actually exist?

Not for the Treo.  One of Palm's many well-publicized fiasco's was when 
their president promised 802.11 shipping for the Treo 650 'within a 
year' as an add-on.  So, I bought one.  It never showed.  Most think 
Verizon was afraid of VOIP.

>    How in the name of the FSM's balls Apple managed to convince
> everybody the iPhone is somehow exempt from the above clusterfsck
> remains a perplexing mystery to me.  The iPhone is actually worse,
> because in addition to the carriers wanting everything locked up we've
> got Apple wanting everything locked up.

I'm not about to buy one, but developing for the iPhone is tremendously 
easier than developing for a Palm.  Distributing those apps is also 
easier, and the carriers are mostly not involved.  Apple also negotiated 
what was at the time the cheapest data plan available.

They're really against a free culture in software and really bad news 
for isv investors, but who's got the better solution?  I expect the 
answer is "Google, about a year from now," but that's obviously not now.

-Bill

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