maemo.org - Talk - View Single Post - iPhone 4S (iOS 5.1.1): A look back at the N900

anthonie	2012-11-13 , 14:26
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Originally Posted by xxxxts

You just proved my point, you had your laptop with you - but you just wanted to show off what you could do with your mobile device. Cool. Could it have been done if an iPhone/Android was there instead of an N900? Yes. Could it have been done quicker on your laptop? Most likely. You just wanted to show off.

I don't know; does ffmpeg for iPhone allow you to run the following from the command line?

Code:

ffmpeg -i "[original_audio]" -ar 8000 -ac 1 -acodec pcm_s16le -f s16le "[converted_audio].sln"

If so, good, but it's not the point for me. The only reason why I chose the phone over the laptop is simple; I wanted to proof that paying a lot of money for the service we were looking for was a waste of money.

To proof that, my phone not only sufficed, but actually was more convincing than if I would have used my highly customized laptop, as it showed that relatively cheap hardware with the right kind of software was able to achieve the same goals.

This proofs nothing about iOS or it's usablity or non-usability. It just proofs the N900 can be a sufficient device for some.

Why do you insist on "proper usage" while all these devices are derived from what we used to call "personal computers"?

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