Re: Cellphone Inventor Knocks iPhone

On Apr 22, 7:31 am, "Rotten Apple" <rot...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
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"Rotten Apple" <rot...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
http://www.forbes.com/2008/10/28/cooper-cell-inventor-tech-wire-cx_ag....

Cellphone Inventor Knocks iPhone

He also praised Google's (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) Android
operating
system as an example of the sort of open operating system that would
allow
for the full potential of wireless devices.

But the cellphone patriarch had less kind words for the smart phones
that
Android runs on and even fewer for the iPhone. Cooper advocates
simpler,
specialized devices--his wife is the creator of the Jitterbug, a
hyper-simple phone for the elderly.

In an interview with Forbes.com following his talk, Cooper said that
he had
used an iPhone for a few weeks before handing it off to his grandson,
saying
that he couldn't navigate its contacts and that its shape and cell
service
made it a sub-standard phone. "A phone that's an Internet appliance,
an MP3
player, a camera and a whole bunch of other functions doesn't make a
lot of
sense," he said. "You try to build a universal device that does all
things
for all people, and guess what? It doesn't do anything very well."

IOW, he just likes simple phones.  I agree with him, hence my phone is
just a phone!

"In an interview with Forbes.com following his talk, Cooper said that he had
used an iPhone for a few weeks before handing it off to his grandson, saying
that he couldn't navigate its contacts and that its shape and cell service
made it a sub-standard phone."

A reply to the article reads:


"I have an iPhone 3G and I love it. It provides many functions
including voice communications. It is web browsing, stock quotes,
maps, realtime traffic advisory, calculator, camera, video, weather,
news, stockbroker trades, ebay, chat, radio, music, blogs, voip calls
over the inernet with wifi, unit conversion, grocery list, and, oh
yeah, it's also a cell phone. However, I consider the cell phone to be
a rather pedestrian function. it's all the other stuff that I consider
more important and more useful. I'm afraid Mr. Cooper has it ass
backwards."

I also own a 3G and it does the stuff that it does ( a LOT) well
enough that I decided to buy one. If it were just a phone I probably
woulda passed... no matter how well it worked as a phone.

I wonder how much Motorola stock Cooper owns (or owned) and how
disgruntled he was with Apple when they dumped Motorola... ;)
.

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