Errr... wait. You've created a petition so that a company the size of Apple doesn't make a huge commercial mistake? A petition? Do you not think they just *might* have some professional marketing guys in the UK? I'll answer that for you: yes, they do. I know one of them - he came from a mobile phone industry background.
They're clearly aiming for the Blackberry market. That's never really taken off in the UK because Java games and MMS are HUGE. The iPhone supports neither at time of writing - and *that's* what is going to wreck it's commercial chances, not which rip-off data technology it happens to use.
“The other one is a biggie, and it's something very noticeable in the videos: touch sensitivity is pretty bad. Using the virtual keyboard proved to be far too painful, and we're pretty sure it wasn't multitouch-friendly.”
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Errr... wait. You've created a petition so that a company the size of Apple doesn't make a huge commercial mistake? A petition? Do you not think they just *might* have some professional marketing guys in the UK? I'll answer that for you: yes, they do. I know one of them - he came from a mobile phone industry background.
They're clearly aiming for the Blackberry market. That's never really taken off in the UK because Java games and MMS are HUGE. The iPhone supports neither at time of writing - and *that's* what is going to wreck it's commercial chances, not which rip-off data technology it happens to use.