[Novalug] Rich's Alternative to iPhone

[David Zakar]

That's a pretty weird distortion of the situation. T-Mobile had the WiFi
thing in the works WAY before the iPhone was announced.

I think the iPhone is pretty and innovative, but let's not fall into the
trap of attributing all post-iPhone innovation to it, shall we?

-DMZ

-----Original Message-----
From: Keith Casey [mailto:mailinglists at caseysoftware.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 7:26 AM
To: mark at winksmith.com
Cc: Northern Virginia Linux User's Group
Subject: Re: [Novalug] Rich's Alternative to iPhone

On 7/10/07, Mark Smith <mark at winksmith.com> wrote:
> it's a bit interesting that they apparently decided against some of 
> the fluff that other phone makers have thought were required such a 
> photo camera, camcorder, etc.

Actually, I think the single best thing about the iPhone is that all the
other carriers/manufacturers are going to have to respond.
Tmobile already has once with their phone that routes over Wifi to save you
minutes.  Another carrier is about to launch a phone stripped down to
basically nothing but a dialing device + 100 contacts on the basis of "a
phone should be a phone".... oh and the sucker is dirt cheap.

Yea!  Innovation and creativity!

keith

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D. Keith Casey Jr.
CEO, CaseySoftware, LLC
http://CaseySoftware.com
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