Censorship in America!

Posted Jan 16, 2009 16:22 UTC (Fri) by drag (guest, #31333)
In reply to: Censorship in America! by petegn
Parent article: EFF Kicks Off Campaign to Free Your Phone

You can't blame people for being human. The ipod, besides the bling factor, is actually (beleive it or not) very nice and useful object.

Now Apple's behavior makes it less useful then it should be, but when you compare it to the other sorts of phones you can buy the Iphone is actually more open then almost all of them, except for Android/OpenMoko stuff.

Hard to believe

Posted Jan 16, 2009 18:46 UTC (Fri) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link] (1 responses)

Now Apple's behavior makes it less useful then it should be, but when you compare it to the other sorts of phones you can buy the Iphone is actually more open then almost all of them, except for Android/OpenMoko stuff.

When I've last developer programs for Symbian/WindowsCE phones (three to four years ago) it was possible to do with free sdk and programs were installable from your web site. Have the times changed so much?

Hard to believe

Posted Jan 17, 2009 4:51 UTC (Sat) by drag (guest, #31333) [Link]

Ya your probably right. I know that I can install pretty much any j2me program on my cell phone, even though it's a midlevel feature phone.

But for the most part most phones remain nasty little horrid proprietary things, most much worse then iphone. Especially the phones you purchase subsidized from phone providers... they tend to have extra restrictions built into them.

That's not to say I am praising apple or anything. If I am going to go out and spend a lot of money on a phone it is going to have to do better then that.