The PC/smartphone issues – similarities and differences
By Stefan Constantinescu on Wednesday, June 28th, 2006 at 4:03 AM PST In General
Bill Ray of TheRegister.co.uk asks and interesting question – Are mobiles a model for future? In its analysis he starts with something I agree almost 100% and that is the fact that mobile phones are not, and never will be, the open and truly flexible platform that desktop computers provide.
The issue he points out is right – mobile phone manufacturers are constantly telling us that the latest mobile phone can do anything a PC can, but some users are finding that their new handsets are acting in very un-PC ways; refusing to run software a few years old and not letting them develop their own.
Author writes mostly about the Symbian (as a leading mobile OS platform) and even compares it in some way with Windows. Some issues he points out, are worth thinking about.
The article is concluded with a good point – it’s not about the limitations of the smartphones, it’s about whose responsibility should it be to inform the end users of that limitations, because right now it seems that no one is interested in letting people know if their new handset will actually be able to do anything more than making phone calls (now with this I don’t agree, as Nokia (NYSE: NOK) even calls their phones the multimedia computers). Read the full article.
