iPhone, Android, and why smartphone openness is a lie
I’ve written several times that the “openness” argument made against Apple’s iPhone in general, and by Google against Apple in particular is overblown and often disingenuous. Sure, other smartphones might theoretically be more open at the platform level, but when it comes down to manufacturers and carriers, the end user-facing openness is just not there. [...]
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iPad can now be bought with cash, is the iPad getting a camera flash, on-device iPad App Store and iBookstore go across [...]
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So with Froyo, Android Nexus One can tether on AT&T and iPhone still can’t?
Android 2.2 Froyo updates started going live yesterday for the unsubsidized, unlocked, once-upon-a-time sold directly by Google Nexus One, and it seems to include not only tethering but mobile hotspot (think MiFi, or mobile Wi-Fi router to share your 3G with multiple other devices), usable right now on AT&T — just about the only carrier [...]
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And now Google Maps Navigation might NOT be coming to iPhone…
No sooner did the UK announcement of Google Maps Navigation bring word that an iPhone version would follow… some day, then Google goes into disaster recovery mode and says, um, uh… maybe not:
“We did not say we would bring it to iPhone, we said to date we’ve had it on Android and [...]
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