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iPhone musings
2007-01-09 01:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mdlbearThe (just-announced, vaporware) iPhone looks very cool -- just two questions: what price when, and how open? I'm not spending $500 on a phone -- plus an extra $50/month for net access -- unless it's open enough to get some good open-source apps. It's absolutely not worth it if the open source community can't write software for it -- otherwise I'll just get a Linux phone from Motorola. We'll see.
Doesn't matter much anyway -- that price includes a 2-year contract, and I still have a most of a year to go on my old phone. Who knows what'll be available by then. Or what the iPhone's UI will really be like. The Mac is more useable than my Nokia phone, but not by much; I wouldn't use either UI if I had a real choice. (edited five or so minutes after posting)
(more -- some good comments on O'Reilly, and a link to Apple's iPhone page from DocBug)
Doesn't matter much anyway -- that price includes a 2-year contract, and I still have a most of a year to go on my old phone. Who knows what'll be available by then. Or what the iPhone's UI will really be like. The Mac is more useable than my Nokia phone, but not by much; I wouldn't use either UI if I had a real choice. (edited five or so minutes after posting)
(more -- some good comments on O'Reilly, and a link to Apple's iPhone page from DocBug)
Gloat, gloat
Date: 2007-01-09 11:24 pm (UTC)