Thread: Steve Jobs on open vs closed
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richwhite is offline richwhite
2010-10-19 , 16:44
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Originally Posted by RFS-81 View Post
Agreed. If one only needs to call and text, all the added "smarts" will do is: cause more bugs (potentially ruining the "dumb" features too), slow down updates and make them untrustworthy, rise prices, shorten the battery life, add weight/size etc..
Yup. And if nothing else, no one is going to want to spend as much money as a laptop on a phone just for calls and texts. This is why, as Jobs said, Nokia make $50 phones. They're not the whole range, and the iPhone wouldn't exist without Nokia, but they are necessary devices still and thankfully Nokia still recognises that