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Originally Posted by LotekJunky
Why does sprint keep adding features to their crummy regular phones, and forget about us with the real "magic screens" in our pockets?
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I can suggest a couple of reasons
(1) We're a total minority with them. Bread n Butter comes from those "other" devices, not smartphones
(2) Reduce cost. Why invest money in developing APIs for PPC devices when you can just go buy yourself a GPS unit?
Cell phones don't have such an option, so it makes sense for a network to do so (and usually charge for the aGPS feature). But you do, so why should Sprint foot the bill for something you could do yourself?
Yeah, I don't agree with it either but that's how Sprint rolls. Why else does the Mogul have a Java app enabled if not to run the same Java Sprint apps as all their other devices? No Wm version = no WM development = no lost R&D.