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2013-05-25
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I beg to disagree on that. AFAIK most apps are irrelevant.
What a device needs is some basic applications like phone, SMS/MMS, web browser, email, camera, maps/navigation, in that order. These should all be user replaceable.
The real killer application is a console with access to the device internal functionality and set of scripting languages.
Who needs these thousands of applications, really?
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2013-05-25
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@ Caracas, Venezuela
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#103
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I beg to disagree on that. AFAIK most apps are irrelevant.
What a device needs is some basic applications like phone, SMS/MMS, web browser, email, camera, maps/navigation, in that order. These should all be user replaceable.
The real killer application is a console with access to the device internal functionality and set of scripting languages.
Who needs these thousands of applications, really?
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2013-05-25
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I do not agree.
For instance I never use camera, maps or navigation. A camera phone in my opinion is just for documentation (like taking a picture to remember something you want to buy or a page of a user's manual), not for real photos.
Nobody is sending SMS/MMS anymore. The last time I received an MMS was in 2008. Proper IM apps are the most important thing a phone should have after making calls and before web browsing and email.
Sadly and I'm even ashamed to say this, a phone without at least GTalk, Skype and WhatsApp is already a dead phone.
Just look around you. When you see somebody using a phone is either typing a message or making/receiving a call. Also checking their Twitter and Facebook accounts (though they could do this through a web browser). They just browse the web when they are bored. I think I fire up my browser in the N900 once a week, and just because of boredom, but I'm typing messages all the time.
Jolla can't make a phone just for the geeks, because it's destined to fail. They need to make a phone appealing to everybody not only 50.000 hungry nerds. Otherwise the phone will be dead. This is a business.
I'm sure the numbers Jolla must be looking is that there are 500 million of iOS devices in the world turned on as we speak instead of ~60.000 N900/N9 turned on right now. This is BUSINESS not a device to make geeks happy.
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2013-05-25
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@ Gothenburg in Sweden
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#105
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I beg to disagree on that. AFAIK most apps are irrelevant.
What a device needs is some basic applications like phone, SMS/MMS, web browser, email, camera, maps/navigation, in that order. These should all be user replaceable.
The real killer application is a console with access to the device internal functionality and set of scripting languages.
Who needs these thousands of applications, really?
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2013-05-25
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@ Southerrn Finland
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#106
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I do not agree.
For instance I never use camera, maps or navigation. A camera phone in my opinion is just for documentation (like taking a picture to remember something you want to buy or a page of a user's manual), not for real photos.
Nobody is sending SMS/MMS anymore. The last time I received an MMS was in 2008. Proper IM apps are the most important thing a phone should have after making calls and before web browsing and email.
Sadly and I'm even ashamed to say this, a phone without at least GTalk, Skype and WhatsApp is already a dead phone.
Just look around you. When you see somebody using a phone is either typing a message or making/receiving a call. Also checking their Twitter and Facebook accounts (though they could do this through a web browser). They just browse the web when they are bored. I think I fire up my browser in the N900 once a week, and just because of boredom, but I'm typing messages all the time.
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2013-05-25
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@ Southerrn Finland
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#107
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I really mean it, what doesn't do asha that average isheep looks for in iphone?
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2013-05-25
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2013-05-25
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@ Caracas, Venezuela
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2013-05-25
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#110
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In this side of the planet it's like this:
Half of the mobile users have Androids, the other half have iPhones.
The iPhones users chat between them using FaceTime or iMessage.
Android users chat between them using GTalk.
To chat between platforms they use WhatsApp. Sometimes they even use WhatsApp to chat to another user with the same OS.
WhatsApp have more users than twitter right now:
http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/16/wha...essages-daily/
People using PCs chat through AIM or MSN. Since MSN died, they use Skype now.
SMS are for banks and bills now. If I receive an SMS is because I haven't paid something or because I did (I used my debit/credit card and then I receive an SMS about it). I rarely receive an SMS from a non-automated source.
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What a device needs is some basic applications like phone, SMS/MMS, web browser, email, camera, maps/navigation, in that order. These should all be user replaceable.
The real killer application is a console with access to the device internal functionality and set of scripting languages.
Who needs these thousands of applications, really?