At 12 Apr 2008 04:30:12 +0000 Larry wrote:

> But, that would either lead to a device no carrier would allow to
connect,
> no matter how technically perfect they could make it, no danger at all to
> the "system"...or...the N8xx would become like every OTHER device that
has
> a SELLphone built into it, a corrupted, nearly useless brick, locked by
the
> carrier to insure nothing of any consequence could be done on it that the
> carrier couldn't turn into a profit center with some stupid monthly
> "charge" against your SELLphone bill.


No, I said "GSM."

Tell me how the N95 is a "corrupted, useless brick?" Over a half-million
unlocked, non-carrier branded units were sold in it's first year, and used
on various carriers across the globe.


> And, I believe, Nokia, an ardent supporter of the open source community,
> did exactly what it did for that reason....INDEPENDENCE from carrier
> interference.


How does selling a small line of Linux tablets make them "ardent supporters
of open source" when the bulk of their product line- the cellular phone-
runs their Symbian or proprietarty OS?


> iPhone is the perfect carrier toy. It has no GPS. It has no memory card
> slot. It has no externally accessible, carrier bypassing interface ports
> the customer can use against carrier revenue streams, and it has iTunes
to
> strictly control, at the pleasure of the companies, everything it does or
> does not do. What is REQUIRED before any silly hacker's really neat
> software can be installed on it?....SDK style?....APPLE'S PERMISSION, in
> conjunction with the wishes of its ATT partner. It is and will always
be,
> a STRICTLY controlled device. SDK isn't going to open up iPhones to
> anything that's NOT part of the REVENUE STREAM.
>
> Precisely why Nokia's decision to put Skype in their tablets, instead,
was
> the RIGHT decision.
>
> Even Nokia has no control over what the tablet runs! I do.
>
> ....and this empowerment feels very good, indeed.


Skype also runs on the N95, which is also a GSM phone, and has a GPS built-
in. Tell me again how the carrier is "controlling" it?