{"id":292,"date":"2012-08-27T02:28:29","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T02:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcusroberts.eu\/blog\/?p=292"},"modified":"2014-02-09T21:47:43","modified_gmt":"2014-02-09T21:47:43","slug":"apple-schmapple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcusroberts.eu\/blog\/apple-schmapple\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Schmapple."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, they have successfully sued Samsung and yet Apple&#8217;s &#8216;patented&#8217; ideas go way back&#8230;and I&#8217;m talking about Symbian, Windows Mobile and her new cousin\u00a0Windows Phone. Frandroids of Android I like too.<\/p>\n<p>People buying iPhones should surely be suing Apple.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->I still believe in Windows Mobile, a technology that was the launchpad for all smartphones.<\/p>\n<p>Windows Mobile is the Frankenstein&#8217;s monster of mobile phone operating systems\u00a0 &#8212; hideously misshapen, yet powerfully intelligent, it spends its time outrunning the fiery torches of disgruntled users and mobile phone reviewers. It doesn&#8217;t have the cachet of the iphone, the ubiquity of Symbian or the geek chic of Android, and it&#8217;s the calling card of suits who wear pleated trousers and mobile phone holsters&#8211; it&#8217;s so square it makes BlackBerrys look cool.<\/p>\n<p>But there is one advantage to WinMo&#8217;s attempt to recreate your PC in your pocket &#8212; it&#8217;s the greatest mobile app platform on the planet. You thought Apple invented the app for a little baby called the iPhone? Forget it. Compared to the iPhone OS or even open-source Android, WinMo is the king, because it&#8217;s dead easy to develop for, and you can stick almost any program on it.<\/p>\n<p>Me? I still have the greatest phone which is the HTC HD2.<\/p>\n<p>Oh&#8230;and I can also run 3 different Android Operating Systems as well as WinMo and WinPhone.<\/p>\n<p>I believe with Apple you can just run, uh, Apple&gt;!<\/p>\n<p>Keep pumping your cash towards Apple. They need it.<\/p>\n<p>Marcus<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, they have successfully sued Samsung and yet Apple&#8217;s &#8216;patented&#8217; ideas go way back&#8230;and I&#8217;m talking about Symbian, Windows Mobile and her new cousin\u00a0Windows Phone. Frandroids of Android I like too. People buying iPhones should surely be suing Apple.<\/p><p><a class=\"more-link block-button\" href=\"http:\/\/marcusroberts.eu\/blog\/apple-schmapple\/\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21],"tags":[44,56,57],"class_list":["post-292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-blog","tag-android","tag-winmo","tag-winphone"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcusroberts.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcusroberts.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcusroberts.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcusroberts.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcusroberts.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcusroberts.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcusroberts.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcusroberts.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcusroberts.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}