Thanks for your comments.

Don’t get me wrong; I think the iPhone is an incredibly cool product. I don’t have one because I’m not going to change my carrier to get one; but I’d think about it if I didn’t have to do that.

I just think that you can’t compete with free. I wonder how much the cost of a phone and/or service contract is devoted to the licensing of the operating system. I’ll bet it’s significant.

I used to scoff at open source because you had to be a complete techy geek with tons of time on your hands to make it work, but I’ve become a convert. Open source software and platforms have become much easier to use and they inevitably have far more features because there are far more people creating those features.

I think proprietary is the past.

And, yeah, if you hadn’t guessed from the title of my blog, I AM a marketing guy. No apologies.

“Lower prices and more features” certainly have not killed any iPods so far, nor has open source software killed Microsoft or Apple with these “lower prices and more features”.

You must be a marketing guy.