Uninteresting iPhone
Although the buzz on the technology blogs I read seems to be quite keen on the iPhone, if you can’t install third party software on it [1,2,3] then it won’t interest me much at all.
There’s a comparison of the OpenMoko and the iPhone but to me it’s all about the software (and the openness).
If the iPhone is not a smart phone, what would you call it? Maybe a closedphone? It doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue. I guess it doesn’t matter to me much – I’ll be buying something else instead
P.S. I’m not saying that I don’t think the iPhone will sell extremely well – I guess I’m just not it’s target audience – the last portable music player I bought plays oggs as well as mp3s
I think I probably am the target market, I use a mac, ipod and itunes, but I’m not completely sold. The combined devices never seem quite right, I’d have prefered it if they’d done it as purely a phone. It’ll be annoying if you use most of the battery up playing music and then can’t make calls. It’ll be annoying to have to charge it every day.
I know the ui will be amazing though, I think that’s the area the open source versions need to target. At the moment for me, the apple stuff is so nice to use that it compensates for the closedness. Maybe the open source community really needs some ui experts above any more coders.