On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 13:03 -0500, Andrew Gould wrote:
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Roger Oberholtzer
wrote: Explain why I can hook up an iPhone to a Mac or Windows box and get all the features I think Nokia et. al, should provide? Backups, sync, updates, app installs and deleting 'just work'. No painful leaping from program to program. This is of course because Apple are in control of both parts of the puzzle. What is to stop the other guys from doing the same. This is one of many reasons iPhone sales are doing quite well.
-- Roger Oberholtzer
The major difference between the business models (Apple vs Nokia, etc) is that after the phone sale, Apple has many opportunities for additional/continued revenue streams, whereas the other phone manufacturers just hope to control costs (support, warranty).
Not true. Both Sony/Ericsson (how many record companies does Sony own?) and Nokia have large music download sites. They have been trying to position themselves so that they do have after sale content. Sony/Ericsson are always advertising that they have some song by some artist before anyone else. Or that this month all downloads are free. Nokia the same. This has not gone as great as they would have hoped. I put it down partly to the crappy PC interface support. Also, I think it is shortsighted to view decent access to the phone from the PC to be unrelated to the original choice to buy the phone in the first place. I, for one, now consider it a requirement. Not an option that may or may not work, depending on the version-of-the-week of the software in the phone. Just my opinion. -- 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