On Wed, 16 Nov 2005, Debi Jones wrote:
> Break out of walled gardens and operator crippled devices, buy making your
> own.
> http://news.com.com/Build-it-yourself+cell+phones/2100-1008_3-5953682.html?part=rss&tag=5953682&subj=news
Man, I so do not buy this as a consumer thing, for several reasons.
1. They don't mention the virus and bug issues. Ask any consumer,
"do you wish your phone were more like your (Windows) PC?" and see
what response you get.
This is not a killer point, but it's an important one, and one that
needs to be dealt with from the beginning. And it can be dealt with,
I think, but by getting away from the hardware, rather than getting
closer to it. BREW is the wrong direction; Java is the right one.
2. Nonsense like, "The wonky dial-up bulletin board systems of
the 1980s evolved into today's near-universal Internet access."
Sorry, the Internet of the 1980s evolved into today's near-universal
Internet access, killing the dial-up bulletin board systems of the
1970s and 1980s. (I was there; I saw it.)
However, as an experimental platform? Great stuff. Though, again, the
only reason we need to do this sort of thing (buying our own radios and
integrating them) is because the carriers aren't providing a software
platform that's both safe (a la Java) and powerful (a la BREW).
cjs
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Received on Thu Nov 17 04:27:40 2005