The Open Source iPhone Alternative OpenMoko for Consumers
There is an article on Digg regarding the OpenMoko project, and one particular comment on that page reads:
The OpenMoko guys just don't get it. This is more of a competition to the windows mobile devices than to the iPhone. The design is hideous, if you take a careful look at the interface (browse the openmoko dev wikis etc) it is simply put together by monkeys that know how to write code, not by anyone with even a slightest sense of usability nor design in mind.
What I'm saying is that you can have lots of devices more feature rich and whatnot than an iphone/ipod like the nokia n800, the archos pmp's, the windows mobile phones etc. The reason they aren't successful is that those are only great until you realize that the device is going to be used by humans, not (code) monkeys with total indifference for art and design.
All I’m going to say is I couldn’t agree with him/her more.