On Aug 26, 2011, at 1:10 PM, Erez D wrote:
1. iphone - not gnu/linux nor open. actually this is the closest as
can be in terms of free as speech.
It's also in terms of availabilty and likelyhood of apps. There are a
lot more iPhones in the world than any other smart phone, and if you
are expecting an app to be developed commercially, it will be there
first.
It may not matter to you, it might. There are the usual apps that
people use, such as a web browser, telnet, ssh, etc. But also a
wonderful Hebrew-English (or vice versa) talking dictionary, apps from
you kupat cholim and bank, etc. So in terms of use, an iPhone may be
the more useful device.
It also scales nicely to an iPad, so you can have the same Apps on a
more comfortable to see and type platform.
Android - live and kicking, actually the most popular. it is somehow
open, and linux kernel. not gnu though. Most popular linux, btw,
IMHO there are a lot more iPhones.
Yes, but how long is google going to be so nice and what will they be
adding to promote their main business, advertising? Does it have the
apps you want? Will it?
What does Google being in competition with all the other Android
vendors mean? Will Samung develop their own device and drop android?
Samung was a big linux device vendor long before Android.
LG? All the other little cell phone companies?
So i have to choose one of these.
I thought about android (galaxy s2). but i do not like it that i
need to program only in java, and that when i install apps, even
simple as "clock widget" - they require full access to my
addressbook, to my setting and to the internet.
It's too much like an iPhone for my taste. A friend brought one over
and I could not tell it from my kids' iPods Touch. Too much copying
and not enough inovation.
I would love to block it via other ways (selinux/apparmor/iptables
etc...).
I miss my linux apps. (can run in any way a gnu/linbux dist under
chroot ?) can i write non java apps and give to my friends ?
what are your thoughts on the issue ?
It's no help to you now, but I think the market being narrowed down to
iOS and Android is a great thing for the world. There will be a lot of
people who can "do better" and while almost all of them will crash and
burn, a few will actually produce something better and people will buy
it.
Geoff.
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Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM
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