Comments on: If It’s All The Same Platform, Why Can’t Users Add More Software Features? http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2007/08/06/if-its-all-the-same-platform-why-cant-users-add-more-software-features/ Russell Buckley and Carlo Longino on mobile technology. Tue, 22 May 2012 09:13:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Anders Borg http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2007/08/06/if-its-all-the-same-platform-why-cant-users-add-more-software-features/comment-page-1/#comment-112974 Anders Borg Mon, 06 Aug 2007 21:19:31 +0000 http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2007/08/06/if-its-all-the-same-platform-why-cant-users-add-more-software-features/#comment-112974 There are secondary benefits of this "after market download" approach: Less need for pre-installed memory and the related cost, and less costs for licensing of software for all the delivered phones. If a specific user needs tons of applications or other content: Get a memory card that all E and N series phones anyway support. The user would pay for the license. Cheaper phones, increased flexibility. Doing such downloads/installation would have to be very streamlined of course, and applications should be in the face of the user, not like today where you have to search for the newly installed applications in the phone. I had hoped Java would become the vehicle for this (r)evolution, now when all new phones have it (except iPhone and a few other), but that's not the case if we talk business and multimedia applications, only when it comes to games, and on Symbian phones it's better with Symbian applications. There are secondary benefits of this “after market download” approach: Less need for pre-installed memory and the related cost, and less costs for licensing of software for all the delivered phones. If a specific user needs tons of applications or other content: Get a memory card that all E and N series phones anyway support. The user would pay for the license.

Cheaper phones, increased flexibility.

Doing such downloads/installation would have to be very streamlined of course, and applications should be in the face of the user, not like today where you have to search for the newly installed applications in the phone.

I had hoped Java would become the vehicle for this (r)evolution, now when all new phones have it (except iPhone and a few other), but that’s not the case if we talk business and multimedia applications, only when it comes to games, and on Symbian phones it’s better with Symbian applications.

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