<br><span class="gmail_quote"><br></span><br><div><span class="q"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>Beside the point that an *average* user doesn't see the potential of
<br>open source on a mobile - what are your experiances and demands on
<br>a smart phone?<br><br>When you look at the devices that you know or use(d):<br>- What does you miss most?<br>- What does you hate most?<br>- What does you like/used most?<br></blockquote></span><div><br>well honestly my biggest issue with phones in general is not features but execution. The iPhone is a good example of executing well on features that have been around for years. My one concern with open source is that it is great at delivering features, but historically not great at UI. This is because big open source projects are often done by teams where everyone can do what they want. This tends to mean there is no singular unified design vision. This is fine for features for the most part because we can all more or less agree on how to implement wifi or an encryption scheme or whatever. Or if we disagree we can implement five different ways as APIs and let the market decide. But good UI doesn't work that way.
<br><br>So the iPhone has a design czar - jobs - and that means that forward thinking design gets done in a unified way. This issue may not effect OpenMoko, at least in the beginning, since a private company is doing the design. But when the design process becomes public, the features and design by committee thing might be an issue.
<br><br>But the bottom line is that my biggest problem with phones is that they are just not designed well. The pretty much all suck!<br></div><span class="q"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
And please feel free and very welcome to chare your ideas/questions<br>on this list - your question is a very good one and I hope that others<br>could spend a little more time to anwer you now.</blockquote></span><div><br>
Thanks for the welcome! But I have been here for months, and even made a comment or two :).
<br><br><br></div>Regards,<br>Hank<br></div><br>