Gavin wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Jan 2007 21:35:06 -0000, "Motorcyclesaur"
> <gpostbox.zerospam@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> "the dog from that film you saw" <dsb@REMOVETHECAPITALSbtinternet.com> wrote
>> in message news:50id6vF1ft9rdU1@mid.individual.net...
>>
>>> crazy money
>> Really?
>>
>> Would you like to hear the price of my first mobile phone, an old OKI that I
>> bought in 1993? And the cost of the MicroTac that I bought after that (it
>> must have been in 1994)?
>>
>> The point is: the new iPod costs $600.
>
> No the point is when did you last buy a phone, there almost always
> subsidised, heck most people balk at spending £50 on a new mobile
>
> And the UK data charges mean it will never be used as an interent
> applicane to any grea degree or you'll get stuffed by the phone co.
>
>
> Jobs has said he does not want this subsidised by the phone co's as he
> does not want it to hit ipod sales.
>> It's cool, runs on a rock solid system (OS X meaning unix?), innovative,
>> light, technologically advanced. And by the way, it also makes phone calls,
>> it can be used to browse the web and check your email.
>>
>
> No it looks like OSX and runs some osx programs,
>
> Doesn't mean it is Osx, jsut something that;'s running specific apps

I remember installing Linux on some old iPaq 3660's. I also remember
installing Linux on some large servers. If Linux can go on both
extremes of devices, then why can't OSX which is based on
Unix/Linux/whatever be targeted at a mobile device? In fact, if people
can target Linux to a 3rd party's mobile device, how much better could
Apple do it when they have full control over the source of their OS and
full control and decisions over the hardware of the device.

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