Poisoned Apple: iPhones and Steve Jobs — Disney Revisited?
In many ways Apple is the Teflon technology company. While Bill Gates is often cast as a slightly dorky Darth Vader and Microsoft as the evil Empire , his counterpart Steve Jobs is often portrayed as a yuppie guru and Apple as an almost spiritual enterprise. These simple caricatures have always ignored such details as Gates’s initiatives to bring vaccines to poor Africans which are, as of yet, without answer from Jobs. The Apple iPhone takes us through the looking glass to a place called Disney World. Our adventure may not be magical, but it will add additional perspective to the above oft-recited caricatures.
The Safari web browser on iPhone and iPod Touch is rapidly gain market share amongst mobile web users. The gain one comes despite the fact that the iPhone is an extra-ordinarily closed system. All software developed though Apple’s software development kit that is distributed to more than 100 web users must be distributed through Apple, which then takes a 30 percent cut. Setting the bar at a mere 101 web users pretty much adds up to “all” software developed for the iPhone by others using the Apple software development kit is subject to this 30 percent grab from Apple. Software development kits released for other operating systems do not require the developers to relinquish a cut. Apple is already apparently making editorial decisions, rejecting a “Pull my Finger” application. This system makes Bill Gates’s foul murder of Netscape, look like Linus Torvalds. Read on »
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The Nokia N75 Phone (AT&T)
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We’re new, but we’re anxious to get started… talking about Phones! We will post reviews, musings and ramblings that have to do with all aspects of the telecommunications industry. All over the world, it’s clear that we all love our phones. We will have pages to do with free downloads such as: cell phone programs, cell phone games, fax programs, online phone services such as Skype, and more. Read on »
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