Mobile Carriers Cry "Less Operating Systems" 217
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.
Shome mishtake shurely? (Score:5, Informative)
I know they have trouble adding-up, but jeez...
Re:Shome mishtake shurely? (Score:4, Informative)
For those who don't get it, fewer is for things you can count, less is for things you can't.
Re:Shome mishtake shurely? (Score:1, Informative)
Mobile developers cry it too (well, "fewer") (Score:5, Informative)
If I never had to work in anything but (e.g.) J2MD CDC OpenGL ES or (gasps of outrage!) WinCE SP2005 again, I'd be a very happy bunny indeed.
Re:Good! (Score:3, Informative)
My only complaints with it are that the screen gets full of pocket lint, the OS sucks and the phonebook is essentially a flat file.
I'll admit it's probably over accessorized, but as a phone, it works better than most.
Re:Shome mishtake shurely? (Score:3, Informative)
I don't know about "awful", but it is wrong. "Operating systems" is a count noun, not a non-count noun [wikipedia.org]. To be sure, fewer people will recognize that it's wrong (and fewer still will know its name) than if the Times had made a common error, like substituting a possessive for a contraction, but that doesn't make it right.
Instead of less mistakes, we should strive for fewer.
--not-your-friendly-neighborhood-grammar-snob
(That'd be my sweetie.)
Re:article contradicts itself (Score:3, Informative)
Of course, no one is forcing these providers to support all phones nor is it the case that any of them do it.
Re:Shome mishtake shurely? (Score:2, Informative)
Slashdot would be less annoying if there were fewer grammar Nazis.
Apostrophe Nazi and proud!
Re:It's the platform which matters, not the kernel (Score:3, Informative)