{"id":69,"date":"2007-01-10T21:49:31","date_gmt":"2007-01-10T21:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/?p=69"},"modified":"2007-01-10T21:49:31","modified_gmt":"2007-01-10T21:49:31","slug":"uninteresting-iphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/technology\/2007\/01\/uninteresting-iphone\/","title":{"rendered":"Uninteresting iPhone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although the buzz on the technology blogs I read seems to be quite keen on the iPhone, if you can&#8217;t install third party software on it [<a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.jupiterresearch.com\/analysts\/gartenberg\/archives\/2007\/01\/whats_missing_f.html\">1<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tuaw.com\/2007\/01\/09\/iphone-will-not-allow-user-installable-applications\/\">2<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2007\/01\/09\/the-iphone-is-not-a-smartphone\/\">3<\/a>] then it won&#8217;t interest me much at all.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linuxtogo.org\/gowiki\/OpenMoko\/iPhone\">comparison<\/a> of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openmoko.com\/\">OpenMoko<\/a> and the iPhone but to me it&#8217;s all about the software (and the <a href=\"http:\/\/lists.openmoko.org\/pipermail\/community\/2007-January\/001005.html\">openness<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>If the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2007\/01\/09\/the-iphone-is-not-a-smartphone\/\">iPhone is not a smart phone<\/a>, what would you call it? Maybe a closedphone? It doesn&#8217;t exactly roll off the tongue. I guess it doesn&#8217;t matter to me much &#8211; I&#8217;ll be buying something else instead<\/p>\n<p>P.S. I&#8217;m not saying that I don&#8217;t think the iPhone will sell extremely well &#8211; I guess I&#8217;m just not it&#8217;s target audience &#8211; the last portable music player I bought plays oggs as well as mp3s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although the buzz on the technology blogs I read seems to be quite keen on the iPhone, if you can&#8217;t install third party software on it [1,2,3] then it won&#8217;t interest me much at all. There&#8217;s a comparison of the OpenMoko and the iPhone but to me it&#8217;s all about the software (and the openness). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}