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Markee
25-09-2007, 07:30 PM
Follow the link below for Stephen Frys' take on the state of the Smartphone market.

http://stephenfry.com/blog/

He is very knowledgeable - maybe he should join xda developers!

Markee
Bulldog
25-09-2007, 09:22 PM
Follow the link below for Stephen Frys' take on the state of the Smartphone market.

http://stephenfry.com/blog/

He is very knowledgeable - maybe he should join xda developers!

Markee

I have to agree that he has long experience. But I still did not understand the catch why the Iphone suppose to be better then WM????

I fully agree that Iphone has shown in design of graphical control of a device MS has long way to improve. But from the technical pointview it is obvious that Iphone is fare away from current WM device capability's

However said that I think anyone of us can be happy that a competition to current WM devices came up and force such companies Like HTC to invent such devices like HTC Touch. It shows Those guys can do even better.

Call me ignorant But I still don't understand Why some would pay more then 500Euro for a device that has nice looking 10 icon shortcuts on today screen, but technically it can only do 20-30% what is a WM6 device currently able to do
Markee
26-09-2007, 11:22 AM
Simple answer - Eye Candy - it's what sells Macs and Ipods really, isn't it?

They are not necessarily the best at anything they do, but they tend to look the best!
funy
26-09-2007, 01:08 PM
Simple answer - Eye Candy - it's what sells Macs and Ipods really, isn't it?

They are not necessarily the best at anything they do, but they tend to look the best!

which sums up the whole one mouse button thing. :) the mouse looks nice but drives me mad not having a right click!
syncopath
26-09-2007, 03:53 PM
Follow the link below for Stephen Frys' take on the state of the Smartphone market.

http://stephenfry.com/blog/

He is very knowledgeable - maybe he should join xda developers!

Markee

At just under 6500 words in his first post, and with 206 comments since September 16th, perhaps it's us who should be joining him. Of course he may well be posting here - not as Stephen Fry of course - although come to think of it who would believe someone posting as Stephen Fry really was Stephen Fry anyway? ...

I agree with Bulldog though. Thanks to Stephen's sober review I now know that the so vaunted iPhone can hardly do anything that my beloved 5-year old Wallaby can't!