You don’t want your phone to be an open platform – Steve Jobs

Stefan Constantinescu

Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.

• Dimilaz

  He thinks that his iphone is the best in industry and he puts down all other smartphones on macworld. I don’t like this attitude. We’ll see in July what his iphone truly is!

• chlettn

  Don’t we love being restricted

  I really wonder what that whole “We put MacOS X on this” thing is about then. Oh, I can’t wait until most of the internet (news pages, forums etc.) comes out of the hype-madness and see that the iPhone is a nice, expensive, but not really groundbreaking device (at least not in the technical sense, let’s see if and how it changes the way web-capable phone are perceived)

• luc

  it’s funny but nokia already has a open-platform potential competitor to the iphone, the intentionally hardware crippled(no gsm/3g so you will still need to buy a phone for internet connectivity, slow processor and no storage except the memory card, undedeveloped sofware wise(although they want to leverege it’s appeal to open-source developers with the debian based maemo&price discounts etc. it’s still a niche product so it didn’t/won’t receive much attention)and quite expensive N800(400$, aprox. 350 for the N70).
  improve the hardware&software, get the carriers to subsidize it and it could be a huge hit with both customers and software developers.

• designfreak

  He thinks that his iphone is the best in industry and he puts down all other smartphones on macworld. I don’t like this attitude.

  ya, he obviously picked those ugliest smartphones to compares…

  anyway, like they say, pride comes before a fall!

  i really feel sorry for those iphone team’s family members…

  i think the iphone’s display will scratch like no one’s business, i also don’t like that you cant operate a phone with one hand, and the bright colorful buttons are so ugly compares to the more classy one found in LG KE850, i don’t understand why steve jobs was so excited and amazed over the Google Map part, I’ve been using that on my Nseries since donkey months ago and i have to wait till 2008!