I’ve been a fan of devices or gizmos that cross over and can be used for a multitude of things. In my wildest dreams, I see this phone running android with 100g of solid state disk space that would have a microSD slot as well. This device would provide music and media, phone services, ability to store important work files. It would run a pocket version of openoffice.org, would have gimp ported, and inkscape on it. Just to state this clearly and succinctly; I don’t see Apple delivering on this device. This is not the current nonsense called the iPad from them. People are speculating that this poses a threat to the kindle. As a happy kindle owner; I’ll just stick with amazon because they deliver books. What is it exactly that Apple delivers with this thing? It won’t multi-task, it has a single speaker, it does not run their client grade OS on it. Nope. It runs the iPhone OS.
I think by net 90 this thing will be rooted and debian will be on it. Its a ARM based processor so Debian is a good choice. As I said in other places, if it ran Android I would buy it yesterday. As it is, I’m sure that millions of Mac lovers and their geeks will buy it. I’m not overly impressed with what it does, how it does it, and the fact it runs on ATT&T’s 3G network. After net 120, ubuntu will be hacked on it. These Linux guys love challenges. By net 150, it will actually be useful and you’ll be able to mount up file systems remotely using samba, be able to run processes simultaneously, and actually get some use out of it.
Its not a platform either that can be improved upon. Its a phone with no phone. Its a single use thing that will only run a single application at a time. Its 499.00 for a big version of the iPhone OS. Somehow I cannot imagine some iBig version of the iPhone OS.
At a humorous level, the news has been full of a MAD TV show three years ago where Apple developed a feminine hygiene product called…
The iPad!!
Heh heh…
