I don't understand what's so great about an over-priced phone; if you
can't code for it, then it doesn't seem like something of interest to
artists. If you could make some kind of musical interface ala Lemur,
that would be of great interest, but otherwise, it really seems
irrelevant to the list. The over-reaction of people to the iphone
bashing by those who seem to have some kind of Mac fetish is
hilarious, I must give Mac credit for its marketing at least.
~David
On 1/16/07, shift8 <shift8@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> well, that's a given :)
>
> but really - Jason's response was holier-then-thou crap that was mostly
> false. Kim's initial post was a bitchfest (but at least mostly
> true...)
> about a new device that kicks ass for a number of reasons even if you
> can't program it (you can't, at least not now) or get it for verizon
> (you can't, at least not now) or that it uses drm (it does, and that
> *does* cause problems - if you don't use the right os, for instance)
>
> it still pushes the boundaries way out for this kind of consumer device
> - multi-touch interaction, gestures, environmental sensors, you name
> it.
> at the very least it'll put pressure on other manufacturers to give
> this
> kind of functionality :_) and i'm just as disappointed that you can't
> code for it because all of those features make me want to code for it.
> give it time, and i'm guessing you will be able to - maybe they'll
> sandbox the cellular components so that imaginary melt-down scenario
> sounds less likely then it already does, for instance.
>
> oh, and i wrote this on an all organically grown, assembled by an
> Australian Pygmy co-op, cooled by the pyramid crystal power laptop.
> did
> i mention it's free trade?
>
> Tue, 2007-01-16 at 14:05 -0800, shift8 wrote:
> > what a bunch of drivel this whole thread is.
> >
> > On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 10:56 +1300, Damian Stewart wrote:
> > > Graham Miller wrote:
> > >
> > > > neat new stuff
> > >
> > > i bet it's still made by invisible Asian people. and this being
> > > Asia of
> > > course, they'll dump their manufacturing wastes (their highly toxic
> > > electronics-manufacturing wastes, mind) straight into the nearest
> > > river.
> > >
> > > > I only buy second generation and later, personally.
> > >
> > > forgive me but I try to only buy second-*hand* second-generation or
> > > later.
> > >
> --
> Mechanize something idiosyncratic.
>
>
>
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