Smartphones war and power to the users
"The Coming Apple-RIM Battle: Some analysts predict a brawl between iPhones and BlackBerrys; others say the real fight pits the smartphones against open-source handsets"
I'm not sure if open source handsets will have such a big upsurge, yet. The beauty of open source is for others to change the code to fit custom needs which is why we have zillion flavors of Linux distributions. We don't have zillion flavors of Firefox but I hope that will change soon. Nonetheless, to have open source phone (a real one), there needs to be openness to what can go on the phones by the users of the phone (not just programmers). Which means that infrastructures needs to be in place for the phone (OS) to handle change by the users (even if it is simply as changing the widgets like you can on google home page). However, as people get comfortable with changing things, I expect people to start programming, just like how a whole industry of Excel macros have taken off.
How about: Programming by Dummies? PBU (programming by Users)? User programmed? Dummies are in power (DAIP)? I AM IN CONTROL (IAIC)?
Copyright 2008, DannyHSDad, All Rights Reserved.
I'm not sure if open source handsets will have such a big upsurge, yet. The beauty of open source is for others to change the code to fit custom needs which is why we have zillion flavors of Linux distributions. We don't have zillion flavors of Firefox but I hope that will change soon. Nonetheless, to have open source phone (a real one), there needs to be openness to what can go on the phones by the users of the phone (not just programmers). Which means that infrastructures needs to be in place for the phone (OS) to handle change by the users (even if it is simply as changing the widgets like you can on google home page). However, as people get comfortable with changing things, I expect people to start programming, just like how a whole industry of Excel macros have taken off.
How about: Programming by Dummies? PBU (programming by Users)? User programmed? Dummies are in power (DAIP)? I AM IN CONTROL (IAIC)?
Copyright 2008, DannyHSDad, All Rights Reserved.
Labels: user interface, user programming
posted by DannyHSDad at
8:43 PM
