Don't be so big on yourself. You made a post yesterday in response to somebody who made a stupid post and was down ranked. I replied to that post, and still had it open in a web browser from last night. The point is, you have a crying fit because not everyone buys into the Apple only mentality, but then turn around and do the very thing you protest against.
As for your comments, you cherry pick from some (and I admit high-profile) blogs, but probably have not used any of those devices yourself. How sad that you cannot form your own opinion and can only listen to what others tell you to think. BTW, do you think it is a coincidence that UMPC was released, then a few years later iPhone was released? Where did Apple get the idea?
As for my partiality - I cannot write any more because I have a lot of people who are asking for new features in my iPhone app, and need to write some more code...
So, once again, strange that you accuse me of an Apple-only mentality when in this very thread I'm supporting Android, Apple's competitor in the web browser, mobile OS arena and quite possibly in the netbook/smartbook market. You must be the first self-proclaimed iPhone developer clown that I've ever seen trying to pin the development of the iPhone to UMPCs. You don't know your history do you?
1) 1993: Apple releases the Newton, the first general-purpose mobile computing device. Apple coins the term PDA. 2) 1996: Palm releases the Pilot. Microsoft copies the Newton and the Pilot with WinCE, gets smashed by Palm for years. (By 2000 the Palm OS powered 86% of all PDAs, then failed to innovate and allowed Windows to take over.) 3) 2001: Handspring merges the PDA and cell phone creating the first smartphone: Treo 180.
4) 2003: Steve Jobs was talks about a phone PDA at All Things Digital: Walt Mossberg: A lot of people think given the success you've had with portable devices [iPods], you should be making a tablet or a PDA. Steve Jobs: "I get a lot of pressure to do a PDA. What people really seem to want to do with these is get the data out. We believe cell phones are going to carry this information... We believe that mode is what cell phones need to get to."
6) 2006: UMPC devices appear. Origami was the touch pack and basic touch interface skin from Microsoft on these devices.
7) 2007: Apple combines the sophistication of the Newton with the simplicity and affordability of the Palm Pilot, release the iPhone, becomes an instant success.
8) UMPCs fail at doing anything practical or very well, fail in the market place.
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Don't be so big on yourself. You made a post yesterday in response to somebody who made a stupid post and was down ranked. I replied to that post, and still had it open in a web browser from last night. The point is, you have a crying fit because not everyone buys into the Apple only mentality, but then turn around and do the very thing you protest against.
As for your comments, you cherry pick from some (and I admit high-profile) blogs, but probably have not used any of those devices yourself. How sad that you cannot form your own opinion and can only listen to what others tell you to think. BTW, do you think it is a coincidence that UMPC was released, then a few years later iPhone was released? Where did Apple get the idea?
As for my partiality - I cannot write any more because I have a lot of people who are asking for new features in my iPhone app, and need to write some more code...
@ Nohone
So, once again, strange that you accuse me of an Apple-only mentality when in this very thread I'm supporting Android, Apple's competitor in the web browser, mobile OS arena and quite possibly in the netbook/smartbook market. You must be the first self-proclaimed iPhone developer clown that I've ever seen trying to pin the development of the iPhone to UMPCs. You don't know your history do you?
1) 1993: Apple releases the Newton, the first general-purpose mobile computing device. Apple coins the term PDA.
2) 1996: Palm releases the Pilot. Microsoft copies the Newton and the Pilot with WinCE, gets smashed by Palm for years. (By 2000 the Palm OS powered 86% of all PDAs, then failed to innovate and allowed Windows to take over.)
3) 2001: Handspring merges the PDA and cell phone creating the first smartphone: Treo 180.
4) 2003: Steve Jobs was talks about a phone PDA at All Things Digital:
Walt Mossberg: A lot of people think given the success you've had with portable devices [iPods], you should be making a tablet or a PDA.
Steve Jobs: "I get a lot of pressure to do a PDA. What people really seem to want to do with these is get the data out. We believe cell phones are going to carry this information... We believe that mode is what cell phones need to get to."
5) 2004: Apple was already hard at work on creating the iPhone.
http://www.wired.com/gadgets/wireless/magazine/16-02/ff_iphone?currentPage=2
6) 2006: UMPC devices appear. Origami was the touch pack and basic touch interface skin from Microsoft on these devices.
7) 2007: Apple combines the sophistication of the Newton with the simplicity and affordability of the Palm Pilot, release the iPhone, becomes an instant success.
8) UMPCs fail at doing anything practical or very well, fail in the market place.
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@ Nohone
And I replied to the "stupid post" that you are talking about on your narrow-sighted comments.
http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/05/ask-engadget-whats-the-best-gps-tracker-for-under-300/1#comments