<div>I like both iOS and Android. There are quality products on both sides. I have purchased products from both </div><div>camps and love them equally. If you build a quality product that customers actually want to use and buy, </div>
<div>there will be no need for lock-in. To me, lock-in shows a company that is insecure about their own ability to </div><div>innovate and bring value to their customers over time. I have a few Apple products and I don't think they </div>
<div>have lock-in at all. I bought those products because they felt solid and well-engineered. However, I like </div><div>FOSS, so iPodLinux (uCLinux) runs on my iPod and Android is running on my iPhone 3G. Apple police didn't </div>
<div>come banging on my door when I chose to do that. </div><div><br></div><div>Apple is one of the few big tech companies that actually cares about open standards, like XML and HTML 5. That</div><div>extends down to the hardware level. The chips in their devices tend to be high quality and work to spec. Half</div>
<div>of the functionality won't be implement in software. Soft (Win)modem anyone?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Jim Lynch <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ale_nospam@fayettedigital.com">ale_nospam@fayettedigital.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">On 06/10/2011 12:06 PM, Chris Fowler wrote:<br>
</div><div class="im">> On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 11:13 -0400, Stephen R. Blevins wrote:<br>
>> "Vendor Lock-in?"<br>
> I will never save Vendor Lock-in in bad. In fact, I love it. I<br>
> respect those that get away with it. Why? Because they've found a way<br>
> to maximize revenue.<br>
><br>
> You guys treat Apple like the bad guy but the truth is that it is the<br>
> customers who have locked their selves up.<br>
><br>
> Look at the turmoil going on in the PBX market now. Avaya is known to<br>
> have taken lock-in to a new level. They bought the PBX portion of<br>
> Nortel that has no lock-in. The Nortel dealers are up in arms.<br>
><br>
> Avaya knows what so many people are learning. The margins on hardware a<br>
> razor thin and it is maintenance services that keep the lights on. Try<br>
> owning an Avaya PBX now without a maintenance contract and see how far<br>
> you get. You don't even have the admin permissions on these systems.<br>
><br>
</div>When there is freePBX why would anyone ever buy Avaya?<br>
<br>
I'm quite happy with my (small) pbx.<br>
<font color="#888888"><br>
Jim.<br>
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