On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 17:45 -0500, Rajko M. wrote:
On Wednesday 03 June 2009 11:26:42 am Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
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.
Apple success is based on others greed.
Not to start a religious war, but if one were to compare the use of the iPhone/iPod to similar devices by other manufacturers, one might conclude that Apple have done a very good job. And, even if you have to go through some hoops, which other phone maker provides a free SDK and free application hosting and distribution? Free in that you only pay a part when you sell something. It you go not sell something, you pay nothing. And, the number of totally free apps for their devices is quite a long one.
Theoretically other can do the same: - Manufacturers provide more functions out of the box, - Service providers use those functions to create services, and finally to share profit, but they compete instead.
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. Well, I for one an finished with this thread. Time to get back to work. -- 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