DISQUS

Technology Liberation Front: Not One, Not Two, but THREE Competing Open Source Mobile Operating Systems

  • dimitris · 1 year ago
    Hold the Mozilla comparisons. Symbian apps have to be signed, and to do anything interesting - like, say, change the S60 telephony app behavior for least-cost-routing - something, incidentally, built in with the UIQ flavor telephony app - is impossible.

    For the most part, Symbian Signed is there to make sure developers behave like good kiddies and don't mess with Ma Telco's business models. Can ou say, pocket tivoization?

    If something similar was (somehow) present in Mozilla, what are the chances the most popular Mopzilla extension would have existed?

    Symbian Signed will live on under the new foundation, so although opening the code will help with the currently average-to-occasionally-atrocious API documentation, it will still be a disruption-hostile platform.
  • Kiba · 1 year ago
    You forgot OpenMoko....
  • hypnosis.training.devon · 7 months ago
    There's a reason this guy's an analyst and not something useful like an engineer.

    How about starting off by grafting a melon to an albatross so your dessert can fly to you.
  • learn hypnosis · 6 months ago
    I've yet to take the leap into the mobile world, living away from the maddening crowds and able to do things on my own pace. That's to say I don't have a cell phone and cable hookup, but my only tie to the guys from... "can you hear me now", are watching the ever widening pool of commercials they pump out. It's a 3g world, I'm just not living in it yet.