Comments on: ‘Don’t be Evil’ does not a good phone make http://www.hasemanonmobile.com/2009/09/20/dont-be-evil-does-not-a-good-phone-make/ Mobile Development, Software, and anything else Wed, 04 Aug 2010 18:09:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Nicolas Bouliane http://www.hasemanonmobile.com/2009/09/20/dont-be-evil-does-not-a-good-phone-make/comment-page-1/#comment-370 Nicolas Bouliane Thu, 22 Apr 2010 17:31:53 +0000 http://www.hasemanonmobile.com/?p=63#comment-370 I, for one, agree with what you said. I've tried Palm OS, Windows Mobile, Android and the iPhone, each for over a year, and the ones I liked most were the closed ones. Windows Mobile was slow and required maintenance as well as all kinds of installs to be enjoyable. Android did improve a bit, but still required installation of all kinds of hacks to work properly. I, for one, agree with what you said. I’ve tried Palm OS, Windows Mobile, Android and the iPhone, each for over a year, and the ones I liked most were the closed ones. Windows Mobile was slow and required maintenance as well as all kinds of installs to be enjoyable. Android did improve a bit, but still required installation of all kinds of hacks to work properly.

]]> By: kgutteridge http://www.hasemanonmobile.com/2009/09/20/dont-be-evil-does-not-a-good-phone-make/comment-page-1/#comment-88 kgutteridge Sun, 20 Sep 2009 20:04:19 +0000 http://www.hasemanonmobile.com/?p=63#comment-88 I disagree, and feel the parallels to the internet in the mobile ecosystem are in fact very very similar Take the internet Private BBS, to get your information on there you had to pass a gatekeeper incredibly fragmented (pre Apples app store) Moderated internet companies, such as Compuserve and AOL, which provide users walled gardens under which the content was pre vetted by the ISP (Apple app store) Removal of walled gardens, in the initial state they were not as popular as the previous walled gardens due to poor user experience as you detail for Android (Android app market) Web commerce Whilst I agree that mobile is a much more personal medium and therefore the tolerance to accept the walled garden is much much higher, eventually I think the cracks appear in Apples methodology for two reasons, for them if the market continues to grow, it will be easier and more profitable for them to "outsource" application approval to the market and the user will see different applications that require the openness of another platform, both of these cracks are starting to appear, approval times are proving frustrating and applications such as Spotify are causing people to jail break the phone so that it runs in the background! (thoughts from an iPhone developer and an Android developer!) I disagree, and feel the parallels to the internet in the mobile ecosystem are in fact very very similar

Take the internet

Private BBS, to get your information on there you had to pass a gatekeeper incredibly fragmented (pre Apples app store)

Moderated internet companies, such as Compuserve and AOL, which provide users walled gardens under which the content was pre vetted by the ISP (Apple app store)

Removal of walled gardens, in the initial state they were not as popular as the previous walled gardens due to poor user experience as you detail for Android (Android app market)

Web commerce

Whilst I agree that mobile is a much more personal medium and therefore the tolerance to accept the walled garden is much much higher, eventually I think the cracks appear in Apples methodology for two reasons, for them if the market continues to grow, it will be easier and more profitable for them to “outsource” application approval to the market and the user will see different applications that require the openness of another platform, both of these cracks are starting to appear, approval times are proving frustrating and applications such as Spotify are causing people to jail break the phone so that it runs in the background!

(thoughts from an iPhone developer and an Android developer!)

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