[IxDA Discuss] iPhone Ads

[Jeffrey D. Gimzek]

On Jun 4, 2007, at 10:37 AM, pauric wrote:

> Will, granted Apple could market mad cows to farmers, a story beats a
> solution every time and  I'll accept open source is an engineering
> centric dysfunctional clusterfark.
>
> The Openmoko hardware is unlocked, software is free, they'll have
> GPS etc.  Yes its being designed by german alpha geeks with hardware
> from taiwan, aside from the issues that implies, I feel confident
> that open-mobile will play large in the long term.  Just look at what
> happened with DRM on the iPod.
>
> It can be argued that UI's, Hardware & design -do not- sell product
> I'll point at ~6% of the PC market.  Cheap sells.
>
> In my negative viewpoint the only reason the ads are UI focused is
> that price, performance & coverage are shocking, average and poor
> respectively.  Yes the UI rocks but are you willing pay $2000 for it?


see, the thing is the target market already pays that for a so-so at  
best UI

I like my Treo as much as the next guy, but C'MON ?

eliminate the iPod from my pocket and give me fullframe video, that  
alone is worth the not-much-extra over my Treo cost.

esp. when you take into account you can web surf on WiFi, saving  
connection costs and speeding the pipe way up for all that video

i just think that cost vs. comparable current tech is the least of  
the issues with this thing.

jd


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Jeffrey D. Gimzek
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