not everyone wants to buy the device with the most new innovative features or technologies. Not everyone wants to buy the device that adheres to the most stringent open, cross-platform standards or paradigms. Some do, and for those the iPhone is not the right product.
Others want something that looks sleek, contains the necessary features for them (and has the option to add further features through an app store, which no other product did, it should be noted), and just works. For those, Apple's obsession with full control of hardware and software and somewhat whimsical approach to approval procedures to third-party apps might not matter that much.
Let's try to avoid turning this into a pro-/anti-Apple flamewar. The iPhone has its flaws but it's still a damn good product.
That Guy above is probably spot on, Apple may well have been influenced/persuaded through some gentle nudging by the various carriers that shelled out boatloads of cash to get exclusivity on the iPhone and see Google Voice as a direct threat to their revenues.
...and IBM will fire back with its own patents, which it most surely has given that this functionality has been present in Lotus Notes (it's called "views" in Notes), since oh, the early 90s or so.
As SCO learned, going up against IBM in a patent battle is anything but trivial.
But it seems to me that Negroponte's main focus is to become famous for the OLPC concept and initiative and from this point of view it's obvious that competition from commercial vendors annoys him. How can he become 'the Great Tech. Saviour' of the developing world when others - and FOR-PROFIT companies even - are delivering essentially the same product and at lower cost? This takes the spotlight away from him and his philanthropy, so naturally he's peeved.
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not everyone wants to buy the device with the most new innovative features or technologies. Not everyone wants to buy the device that adheres to the most stringent open, cross-platform standards or paradigms. Some do, and for those the iPhone is not the right product.
Others want something that looks sleek, contains the necessary features for them (and has the option to add further features through an app store, which no other product did, it should be noted), and just works. For those, Apple's obsession with full control of hardware and software and somewhat whimsical approach to approval procedures to third-party apps might not matter that much.
Let's try to avoid turning this into a pro-/anti-Apple flamewar. The iPhone has its flaws but it's still a damn good product.
That Guy above is probably spot on, Apple may well have been influenced/persuaded through some gentle nudging by the various carriers that shelled out boatloads of cash to get exclusivity on the iPhone and see Google Voice as a direct threat to their revenues.
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...and IBM will fire back with its own patents, which it most surely has given that this functionality has been present in Lotus Notes (it's called "views" in Notes), since oh, the early 90s or so.
As SCO learned, going up against IBM in a patent battle is anything but trivial.
Maybe I'm just being cynical...
But it seems to me that Negroponte's main focus is to become famous for the OLPC concept and initiative and from this point of view it's obvious that competition from commercial vendors annoys him. How can he become 'the Great Tech. Saviour' of the developing world when others - and FOR-PROFIT companies even - are delivering essentially the same product and at lower cost? This takes the spotlight away from him and his philanthropy, so naturally he's peeved.