Collateral Damage

[daveon]

Collateral Damage

Shock!  Cringely is wrong again.  I don't have time to deconstruct this nonsense. But nonsense it is.

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[vicarage.livejournal.com]

I want a phone that is platform neutral when it comes to integrating with the rest of the computers in my life, which is why I'm put off an iphone or Windows Mobile device. I also want lots of free applications to put on my phone, which I also suspect is difficult for both those OSes. I don't know whether son-of-Symbian or Android is better, but they are the one's I'd consider. Mind you, I hardly even buy mobiles, so I'm not making money for anyone.

[daveon.livejournal.com]

To a certain extent you're going to be out of luck with any phone to behave in a platform neutral way for data interaction. Even WinMo has a standard OBEX and SyncML set of APIs so you can write your own sync applications (something Android doesn't currently have) but it'll be a lot of work.

This is one of the reasons that I suspect Google are going to find things tougher than they expected. On the flip side, that does mean and is meaning lots and lots of loverly work for Systems Integrators.

[vicarage.livejournal.com]

Having been converted to Gmail and Google calendar, Android would be my solution to sync problems. I do want a first rate media player though, and want to avoid Itunes, which I find to be crap in many areas. So a port of Rhythmbox or Banshee from Linux or MediaMonkey from Windows would be needed. I suspect the former is more likely

[daveon.livejournal.com]

I remain to be convinced by Google's OTA sync stuff, we've had long long discussions with them internally about how they expect this to work. Generally speaking I'm actually quite happy with ActivSync.

I'm not keen on phones doubling as media players but I share your view of iTunes. To be fair, iTunes 8 actually has solved a lot of my gripes and the Genius autoplaylist feature is excellent.