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Palm PrePalm PrePosted Jan 15, 2009 11:00 UTC (Thu) by forthy (guest, #1525)Parent article: The Android Dev Phone 1
IMHO, the Palm Pre is a more interesting platform from a free software developer point of view. The reason: Palm has found its old business model back. They sell devices, they build a solid software foundation, other people develop lots of interesting applications for it. Google is not really interested in selling devices, they are interested in data from the consumer (guess what this "Market" program will do with your next Google searches!). In other words: This is at least intended to be spyware. Well, anyway, it seems that these open Linux smartphones are an idea who's time has come. As with Linux, we see a boatload of different distributions to come, and can expect the one or other flamewar about it. Currently, I count five already: OpenMoko, Android, ALP, WebOS, LiMo, and I probably forgot some here ;-).
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I fail to see the point Posted Feb 20, 2009 20:21 UTC (Fri) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link] With Android you can use your application on locked-down or free phone, with spyware or without, with Palm you are tied to the platform not under your control. Why do this? Do the benefits are so great? Which ones?
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