Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Fri 17th Oct 2008 18:36 UTC, submitted by Hakime
"The T-Mobile G1 Google smartphone, designed by Google and made by HTC, remains firmly in the shadow of the iPhone-for now. The phone, which goes on sale next week in the US and next month in Britain, was released too early. The HTC hardware and Android OS that powers it lack the polish and depth of even the iPhone 1.0 in most respects. It's not a bad phone, but the software and hardware needed more time in the oven to bring them to a golden brown crispness." Full review at Arstechnica.
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"Desktop open source applications suck when compared to their closed source breatherns.
If that's the case, why do people bother using Firefox or Open Office? "
Free and Not tied to Microsoft immediately comes to the front. Once used, they show their depth. Firefox and OpenOffice.org are heavily invested by former Netscape/AOL/IBM/Novell/RedHat/, now Google, etc., and SUN is intimately tied with OpenOffice.org.
So far I'm not seeing a start to finish Open Source example that comes from some dude's garage and now setting the world on fire.
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Firefox I'll grant you as one of the few desktop apps where Open Source holds its own. OpenOffice's only strong points is that it's free and not tied to a proprietary format. I've never seen anyone seriously try to argue that Open Office is a superior product to Office 2007. At best you can say it's good enough for many people (including me).
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I can just imagine the quality of apps...
Open Source is great for server side apps. BUT when it comes to desktop the verdict is quite the opposite. Desktop open source applications suck when compared to their closed source breatherns.
So if this is what you are hoping for, then you better get an iPhone or whatever other offering there is.
What people forget is that Apple is so good at what it does because it spends oodles of money on people who watch closely on what users want. They are not techies...