____/ waterskidoo on Sunday 12 August 2007 04:18 : \____
> On 2007-08-11, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> The Ultimate Linux Handheld
>>
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>>| Last year's winner in this category, the Nokia 770, has a younger sibling,
>>| and, as oft happens, the kid takes the cake. Nokia's N800, the follow-up to
>>| the 770, is smaller, lighter, better-looking, faster and has a larger
>>| brain.
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9724
>>
>> Maybe the Google Phone will be /it/. /Hundreds/ of millions of dollars are
>> being spent on developing it.
>
> Simple.
> One that that the buying public is interested in and will sell.
Well, what is the "public"? Surely, iPhone is for a niche. Can Google's phone
address the needs of /everybody/? It's a little like the distro debate. Not
everyone requires the same functionality or can bear the same
size(scale/capacity)/design.
At the end of the day, there is no 'perfect phone'. You could argue that most
people use Windows XP, so it must the perfect desktop operating system, but
that's where you have other factors to consider. Are people offered choice? Is
there lock-in?
While we have lock-in (plenty more to come with XPS/XAML/OOXML), the choice
factor is being addressed. Large OEMs stock Linux laptop and desktop PCs.
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