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From: Bob Butler <bob@work.com>
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Subject: Re: Could you write a BSD like os in ADA?
Date: Tue, 10 May 2016 12:18:30 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2016-05-10, G.B. <bauhaus@futureapps.invalid> wrote:
> On 10.05.16 13:41, Xavier Petit wrote:
>> Le 10/05/2016 12:21, G.B. a ?crit :
>>> Usual requirements for winning the competition:
>>>
>>> - works well enough
>>>
>>> - is the less expensive alternative
>>>
>> Like an iPhone ?
>
> iPhone is the very product that made apparent how other phones
> did not work well enough in 2007.

Now you've gone too far. iPhones are just about the worst _phones_ ever
sold. BlackBerry and even Nokia for that matter make much better phones in
all the things that matter with phones like not dropping calls, not
exploding, not requiring you to hold the phone a certain way for it to
possibly make a call, being able to multitask in any meaningful sense of the
word, not requiring you to carry extra batteries or chargers with you
etc. For business or personal the iPhone as a _phone_ is a great big fail.

Sure, those other companies don't make better phone-like gaming platforms or
movie players but you said "phones" and that is not accurate.

Most software and devices are sold to technically inept fashionistas and
anything that actually works or is even designed to work is not appreciated.

Bob
>