Are Dell planning to release their own iPhone?
According to Digitimes, Dell's laptop supplier are developing a phone/PDA for Dell.
Are they crazy? They recently dropped the Axim handheld because they didn't know how to sell or support it. Now they want to enter an already crowded mobile phone market.
Like Apple, they're going to find some very established incumbents when they enter the market.
Personally, I think Nokia, Motorola and the other established phone makers are going to eat Apple and Dell alive.
Friday, April 20, 2007
Looking a gift horse in the mouth
Am I the only one disturbed by Microsoft's idea to sell $3 software to emerging markets?
It appears this product requires a government to sign up with Microsoft which locks that government into MS products. That's one concern.
A bigger concern though is how this affects projects like the One Laptop per Child project. The whole idea of the OLPC is to bring cheap, reliable computing to the third world.
Microsoft's idea seems to go against that, instead it locks those people into expensive, complex Windows systems.
It's a real shame Bill Gates can't work with the existing projects, a bigger shame is that Microsoft can't resist trying to tie governments into commercial deals when offering assistance.
It appears this product requires a government to sign up with Microsoft which locks that government into MS products. That's one concern.
A bigger concern though is how this affects projects like the One Laptop per Child project. The whole idea of the OLPC is to bring cheap, reliable computing to the third world.
Microsoft's idea seems to go against that, instead it locks those people into expensive, complex Windows systems.
It's a real shame Bill Gates can't work with the existing projects, a bigger shame is that Microsoft can't resist trying to tie governments into commercial deals when offering assistance.
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