{"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. 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