Tracy R Reed wrote:
Our phones/computers/pda's/whatever have SO much more they can do for us
than they currently do.
Verizon, Sprint, and Cingular^WAT&T [Am I the only one that has a
king-sized picture of 1983 all over again?] can't find a clever way to
charge for it -- that's why you don't see it.
$0.05 for a text message. $0.56/minute for overages. $2 to download a
ring tone. $0.50 to upload a picture. What. The. Fuck. I should be able
to connect this to my computer and do it from there through a
well-defined interface (USB Mass Storage, anyone?).
At the very least, the Blackberry and other MIDP phones can be extended
to do such things, but the SDKs for compiling software for the
Blackberry are expensive[1], and the MIDP stuff suffers from security
policy trouble (the service providers purposely turn off access to parts
of the device).
Make no mistake -- these devices are very capable. It's just a question
of whether or not the provider wants to make them *useful*.
-Kelsey
[1] The phone speaks Java, actually. It's not so much the SDKs, it's the
fact that the apps are all signed; you have to get a signing
certificate from RIM, and that's the expensive part.
--
[email protected]
http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
