Re: iPhone Killer for the CDMA crowd - well at least Sprint

In article <Xns9AD2DE42DF6DEnoonehomecom@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Larry
<noone@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> >> http://xournal.sourceforge.net/
> >> 
> >> Xournal is a Unix/Linux program that's really cool!
> >> 
> >> http://www.abisource.com/
> >> 
> >> and install the Linux/Unix version of Abiword, a better word 
> processor 
> >> than Micro$oft Word, which is more freeware.
> > 
> > the iphone is not intended to replace a desktop or laptop computer. 
> > while those apps might be able to be ****ted, there really isn't much
> > point.  
> 
> We don't need these deflections.  YOU said the FruitFone was a UNIX 
> COMPUTER, not I.  

actually, apple did.

> I was suggesting you INSTALL some unix/linux freeware 
> that is very useful, even on the FruitFone, for free!

and i'm suggesting that it's silly to make the iphone do things that
it's not well suited to do.  if word processing is im****tant, then
there are better devices to use.  but if one really wants to install
unix freeware, there's nothing stopping them from doing so. 

> The REAL point is YOU CAN'T...because it's not a computer, especially a 
> "Unix computer".  

then what is it?  

> All Unix computers I ever saw had installable 
> applications stored on some kind of memory device and ran code to do 
> useful things the administrator had installed.  FruitFones do neither.

iphones definitely can have applications installed.  what ever gave you
the idea they could not?

> > there are also apps on the iphone that don't exist on other platforms.

> > pick the device that best suits your needs and let others choose what
> > works for them. 
> 
> What the hell is this deflection supposed to mean?  

it means that if something doesn't do what you want, buy something else.

why must one device satisfy the needs of everyone?  

> >> I know FruitFone owners who would sell you their children in trade 
> for 
> >> rdesktop running on the FruitFone:
> >> http://www.rdesktop.org/
> > 
> > vnc already has been ****ted.
> 
> Interesting.  I've never seen one piece of evidence or picture of VNC 
> running on a FruitFone, even disconnected from any useful system.  

<http://code.google.com/p/vnsea/>