Comments on: Android Latin http://www.marketingovercoffee.com/2007/11/14/android-latin/ This Week in Marketing Wed, 09 Jul 2008 04:15:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: John Wall http://www.marketingovercoffee.com/2007/11/14/android-latin/#comment-406 John Wall Wed, 21 Nov 2007 04:20:02 +0000 http://www.marketingovercoffee.com/2007/11/14/android-latin/#comment-406 Eric, I don't think this will have any impact on the 30 and over demographic, but the generation raised on sidekicks and iPhones may be more understanding about a less stable open platform. On the other hand maybe there will be a future backlash on phones that do more than make calls. Eric,
I don’t think this will have any impact on the 30 and over demographic, but the generation raised on sidekicks and iPhones may be more understanding about a less stable open platform.

On the other hand maybe there will be a future backlash on phones that do more than make calls.

]]> By: Sallie Goetsch (rhymes with "sketch") http://www.marketingovercoffee.com/2007/11/14/android-latin/#comment-381 Sallie Goetsch (rhymes with "sketch") Sat, 17 Nov 2007 16:13:28 +0000 http://www.marketingovercoffee.com/2007/11/14/android-latin/#comment-381 I love the idea of an all-Latin episode. There are plenty of places to get help finding the right phrases, like <a href="http://www.yuni.com/library/latin_4.html" rel="nofollow">Yuni</a> or <a href="http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagina_prima" rel="nofollow">Vicipaedia.</a> I'm a real classics geek--got halfway through my doctoral dissertation in Classical Studies. (Which made 13 years of Latin and 9 years of Greek at that point, and I kept going for some years aftewards.) Latin and Greek can be useful in some marketing endeavors: I got hired to do freelance product naming by <a href="http://www.namedevelopment.com" rel="nofollow">Strategic Name Development</a> on the basis of my linguistic background. I love the idea of an all-Latin episode. There are plenty of places to get help finding the right phrases, like Yuni or Vicipaedia.

I’m a real classics geek–got halfway through my doctoral dissertation in Classical Studies. (Which made 13 years of Latin and 9 years of Greek at that point, and I kept going for some years aftewards.)

Latin and Greek can be useful in some marketing endeavors: I got hired to do freelance product naming by Strategic Name Development on the basis of my linguistic background.

]]> By: Eric Sohn http://www.marketingovercoffee.com/2007/11/14/android-latin/#comment-376 Eric Sohn Sat, 17 Nov 2007 08:25:08 +0000 http://www.marketingovercoffee.com/2007/11/14/android-latin/#comment-376 You make some big assumptions about Android. To what percentage of mobile phone users are its features or openness important? The "cool" MVNOs, like Amp'd and Boost, haven't done so hot, have they? A phone, functionally, is not a computer. There will always be geeks that will love Linux cores and open-source, but they are the exception, not the rule. Apple was cautious about the SDK for a good reason. If software you put on your phone has malware in it, you blame the phone - and the carrier. Can you afford for your phone to go FOOM! ? Can the carriers afford that? Closed systems do have their upsides - especially given the size of the market. Just my 2 cents. Eric You make some big assumptions about Android. To what percentage of mobile phone users are its features or openness important? The “cool” MVNOs, like Amp’d and Boost, haven’t done so hot, have they?

A phone, functionally, is not a computer. There will always be geeks that will love Linux cores and open-source, but they are the exception, not the rule.

Apple was cautious about the SDK for a good reason. If software you put on your phone has malware in it, you blame the phone - and the carrier. Can you afford for your phone to go FOOM! ? Can the carriers afford that? Closed systems do have their upsides - especially given the size of the market.

Just my 2 cents.

Eric

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