BUT, be careful with the concept of 4chan and "no retribution". There have been countless examples of 4chan "reacting" to threads, I'm sure I don't need to go into detail here.
I mean as an achievement (from the technical point of view), this is pretty amazing, but this feels as more of a "look at what we can do" thing, than a real attempt at a phone.
Much love for nokia though, hope they reclaim the throne one day.
This is the future of hackathons, free code days and weekend dev marathons.
Yet I'm not sure how soon any serious company will trust it with serious applications.
I'm not putting it down, this is incredible progress, the money (x millions in funding) behind it will give it a good amount of momentum, but it just seems a bit too easy, a bit too gimmicky to be taken seriously. I hope I'm wrong.
While licensing (without a doubt) is a big issue, I think the infrastructure that Apple have in place for manufacturing and sourcing of materials is second to none.
This is only possible due to forward thinking people and a ridiculous amount of demand, the two together mean bulk buying prices available to them only.
The competition will catch up at some point, but I fear that it might require a couple huge mergers for this to happen.
BUT, be careful with the concept of 4chan and "no retribution". There have been countless examples of 4chan "reacting" to threads, I'm sure I don't need to go into detail here.