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Re:The iPhone Software Revolution by igorgue on Thursday June 25, 2009 @10:57AM (#673739)
And here we go again criticizing the Free Software (or Open Source) model, without any valid reason... remember that the iPhone is highly based on OSS, you just make a lot of non-sense.

Also probably you haven't tried the latest distro versions of Linux or an Android phone or WebOS.

Then you say: "Why do you call me fanboy?" read your comment and you'll know.

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Re:The iPhone Software Revolution by mcav on Thursday June 25, 2009 @12:31PM (#673950)
> remember that the iPhone is highly based on OSS

Based on, yes. But the stuff that makes the iPhone an iPhone -- Cocoa, multitouch, etc. -- is far from open.

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Re:The iPhone Software Revolution by nailer on Thursday June 25, 2009 @12:43PM (#673987)
Multitouch doesn't really make the iPhone since it stopped being unique to the iPhone, eg, when the Pre and Hero were announced.

That said, both the Pre and Hero's implementations are also proprietary.

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