On Nov 11, 2007, at 9:12 PM, Xiaofan Chen wrote:

> going back to the original topic.

"Open" anything in a phone is currently not much of a
selling point, since very few phones are "open."  I think
apple is in a much better position to open up the iPhone
than other phone vendors that have even more proprietary
architectures...

I find the Mac platform somewhat more "open" than the PC
platform, sort of.  At least it comes with software development
tools (C and java compilers, and a bunch of open source utils.)
(OTOH, the PC has a lot more third-party tools, and more of a
"third-party" mentality; I think it's easier to become part of
the "closed" part of PC development...)

(put another way, the iPhone seems to be a mere business
decision away from being an "open" platform, while many
competing products have further to do, not really having
any "applications environment" at all to open up.)

BillW

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