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color=#0000ff size=2>Yea, not to mention all the extra crap you gotta pay if you
want to have a broad base of sw. These mobile devices are turning
into platforms where software fees for dinky little apps are to be the primary
source of income for the hardware mfgr, much like game consoles.
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B>
community-bounces@lists.openmoko.org
[mailto:community-bounces@lists.openmoko.org] <B>On Behalf Of
</B>thomasg<BR><B>Sent:</B> Monday, April 21, 2008 12:35 PM<BR><B>To:</B>
fredrik.markstrom@avalon-technology.se; List for Openmoko community
discussion<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: Progress on GTA01 power management issues
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<DIV></DIV>It is always funny to see how the bad marketing works.<BR>Still many
people out there haven't noticed, that the iPhone doesn't cost 399$.<BR>In fact
it cost's 399$ + 24 monthly fees hidden behind some included minutes and so
on.<BR><BR>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 4:27 PM, Fredrik Markström <<A
href="mailto:fredrik.markstrom@avalon-technology.se">fredrik.markstrom@avalon-technology.se</A>>
wrote:<BR>
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style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid">Still
no official comments on this issue ?<BR><BR>Until this is resolved I advice
newcomers to be careful before<BR>spending $399 on another piece of
potentially<BR>useless hardware (GTA02). From my point of view openmoko might
be as<BR>silent and unresponsive, using "busy<BR>with nextgen hardware" as an
excuse with any future hardware revision.<BR><BR>The iPhone is not open but at
least useful, and also $399
!<BR><BR>/Fredrik<BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Openmoko
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