Not really. Every phone has an OS. It's just a smartphone has the ability to have new software installed.

The phone I had before my iPhone was, in any sensible definition, a smartphone. It was also a piece of garbage.

The smart bit of a smartphone is the OS. Everything else is packaging.

They did this before and it was pretty much a disaster so I can't see them repeating the same mistake.

Microsoft certainly smart quite a bit since the launch of the iPhone - They could never equal Apple in the SmartPhone OS market IMHO.

Doesn't matter how many mobile companies they may be in cahoots with. They will always be outclassed. MS would have to copy an iPhone to even get close, and we all know THAT'S never going to happen.

Thankfully.

All things pass.

They may come out with some good ideas, but they will be new rehashes of the same old combinations of the same things reworked in a different shiny skin or package.

I like the 'idea' of a couple of Nokias, but everything else about them, I detest.

I am NOT an iPhone fanboy by any means, I love my Moto A780 for what THAT can do. The iPhones just does everything else better, and I've spent a long time using the various apps etc.
I DON'T like the shape of the iPhone 4, and there are NO decent cases for it, but small price to pay.

In reply to a post by stniuk:

They did this before and it was pretty much a disaster so I can't see them repeating the same mistake.

Unlike last time when income from the desktop Mac made up virtually the whole of their total revenue, at some point this will dwindle a very small proportion of the total and, at that point they may decide to have another try. The only way I could see them doing it would be by licensing to a (very) few tier 1 vendors such as IBM/Lenovo and HP.

You presume that IBM or HP would be interested. I doubt it.

Once OSX is made to run on generic Intel server hardware then OSX will be stolen and used on any hardware.

That'll be good for the Hackintosh crowd but Mac hardware sales would drop.

In reply to a post by AEP:

You presume that IBM or HP would be interested. I doubt it.

He didn't presume anything.


edit: typo.

Edited by ian_c (Mon 14-Feb-11 19:58:54)