On Tue, 2009-06-02 at 09:35 -0500, Andrew Gould wrote:
Oops, I meant to send this to the list:
Rather than give Nokia broad complaints about os support, is there specific verbage that would provide standards-based guidance for better os support?
Telephone developers != standards on the PC interface side. I do not think it is something they seem to consider important. All standards activity is on the telecommunications side, where they really have no choice. On the PC side, it is not exactly rocket science. As a minimum, phones have contact lists. Contacts tend to have some basic common features. Name, address, phone numbers. Yet there are as many ways to get that information as there are telephone models. Of course, the phones can and do make differences where logically there need be no differences. I know this is the same of many technologies. But it does not mean it is still a good idea for telephones to continue this insanity. I think the idea is to sort of lock users into a product. If you have all your info in the Nokia or Sony PC software, it is a big deciding factor when looking for a new phone. Is it worth loosing all the contacts with a new company's product? I would not have a big issue with this if the companies (1) supported more than Windows - and even that support is often crappy, and (2) made quality software, instead of what looks to be a second tier component made with a low budget and little or no usability testing. Ever have to update the software on a Nokia phone? It runs a number of apps sequentially that are each laid out different, so it is unclear that it is all part of the same process, and that have odd redundancies that make you think it has possibly failed the first time and is trying again with a different method. This is a Nokia eXpressMusic accessed on Windows. On the MAC or Linux there is no access possible. Hard to make more than a broad complaint about that platform. -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 8-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org