Mobile Carriers Cry "Less Operating Systems"

A NYTimes story says "Multiple systems have hampered the growth of new services, mobile phone executives say. " The story does a good job of capturing some of the changing dynamics in the mobile OS market — but rightly raises the point that given the sheer size of the mobile market, it's unlikely we're going to see the homogenization we have in the desktop market.

Our needs

[daemonenwind]

What we need here is a good, old-fashioned monopoly.

You know, something we can praise for setting standards and reducing overall expense now, and hate for existing later on.

Re:Good!

[fireboy1919]

Except the razr, which looks pretty but has almost no features to speak of and breaks easily.

That ones popular because they've made a dozen pretty version of it. That phone is being treated like an accessory to an outfit rather than something to talk to people with.

If that trend continues, we'll end up with phones that you can't actually use with a plan...because they don't actually do anything except make cool noises (i.e. you can't communicate to other people with 'em).

Re:Shome mishtake shurely?

[antoinjapan]

$ less operating systems
operating: No such file or directory
systems: No such file or directory

Cygwin doesn't like it either.

Re:I know nobody wants to admit it...

[sheldon]

I think he meant... It's expensive to develop cross platform apps that don't look like Ass.

Re:Answer

[Anonymous Coward]

GG you just owned half of Slashdot readers.

Mobile Users Cry, "Less Phone Executives"

[shog9]

"Mobile phone executives have hampered the growth of new services", mobile phone users say...

Re:Shome mishtake shurely?

[bonefry]

Article demands a new tag: monopolywanted

Re:Shome mishtake shurely?

[mr_walrus]

less is more! :)

didnt realize /bin/less required its own operating system...

Re:Good!

[gEvil (beta)]

Sends and Recieves Phone Calls

I'm amused that this is listed as a "feature" of a telephone.