On Fri, 2009-06-05 at 13:24 -0400, Adam Tauno WIlliams wrote:
On Thu, 2009-06-04 at 08:16 +0200, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 17:45 -0500, Rajko M. wrote: Which brings us full circle to the point that started this thread: Partly by not really and fully following standards when they do not have to, in the hope of locking customers into their goods. This disregard for standards (on the PC side) makes open source development for their products a more difficult task than it need to be.
It just is not that simple. I work every day on solutions involving sync, iCalendar, CalDAV, etc... following the letter of the standard may be ideal but it will *not* result in interoperability. There are gaps in the standards and vagueness that results in entirely legitimate differences in implementation. There are also very real differences in the capacities (and internal data models) between various applications and [especially] devices that the implementation has to compensate for in order to produce what to the end user seems the obvious behavior.
So what you really mean to say is that the PC part of the phone is made up of incomplete inadequate standards. That in fact backs up my argument that many phone suppliers (or at least Nokia, Sony/Ericsson - which is a big percentage in terms of sales) are doing crap work on the PC side. Are they not in a position to make standards happen? They did so on the telecom side. It can be done if one chooses to do so. Still, this is not the core of my complaint. I am simply saying that the software supplied by Nokia themselves that is expected to work with their own phones is (1) crap on windows and (2) not available on any other platform. Standards are surely not an issue when Nokia themselves can make both sides of the conversation.
Well, I for one an finished with this thread. Time to get back to work.
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