06-09-2010, 05:47 PM | #136 |
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On that note, I'm a huge fan of tangerines, and I think I'm going to have some with dinner tonight. To the grocery store!
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06-09-2010, 05:56 PM | #138 |
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Good points, Trubu. Multitouch is something I never even thought of... I guess it did do a lot to change the market, more as a culimination than anything else. Great points.
The jailbreak point, well, yes, I did that with my iPod Touch. It's more the principle of the thing. (God, is that cliche) |
06-09-2010, 06:19 PM | #139 | |
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What the iPhone also did better than it had ever been done was to provide many specialized front ends (aka apps) for accessing specific bits of data from the internet and displaying them in formats that were attractive and useable on a small screen. Prior to that the norm was a fairly good looking email client and calendar (that were often a royal pita to sync with their enterprise desktop counterparts) and a mini version of a desktop browser tacked on. Maybe it's a reflection of how quickly this new iPhone/Android app world has been integrated and adopted that people have a hard time remembering life before the iPhone. |
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06-09-2010, 06:34 PM | #140 |
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But that's exactly the point. You can work around virtually anything, but you shouldn't have to, with other alternatives you don't have to.
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06-09-2010, 06:48 PM | #141 | |
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I love my WinMo HTC TP2. It runs android, tethers both wifi and usb (and bt if you want), and basically is a great phone. Too bad msft abandoned WinMo. It should have been what Android has become. Last edited by volwrath; 06-09-2010 at 06:50 PM. |
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As far as WinMo goes, I have to emphatically disagree. I went through an 8125, 8525, and Tilt before switching to iPhone, and I've never looked back. Don't get me wrong - WinMo was the best thing available at the time, and I had fun hacking around on those phones, installing custom ROMs, writing little scripts and utilities, etc. But eventually I got tired of having to replace most of the stock apps with useable third-party solutions and installing a bunch of utilities just to keep the damn thing running in a semi-acceptable fashion when I saw how user-friendly and polished the iPhone was. Microsoft was absolutely right to flush WinMo and start from scratch (not that I think they have much of a chance with Windows Phone 7 now that iPhone and Android are so entrenched, but it's a better chance than they would have with the old WinMo). |
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06-09-2010, 07:27 PM | #143 | |
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Windows Mobile? The management committee who thought it would be a good idea to port windows down to a hand-held platform, including the "Start Menu" should be gathered up and disappear forever. I had a single WinMo phone and I swear navigating the menus caused brain damage, let's see, some scrolled using the joystick, some took letters for shortcuts, some took numbers. There was a reason so many manufacturers skinned the stock OS, because it was an abomination that should have never seen the light of day. I know several companies that tried to implement Windows Mobile in embedded systems and it was even more painful than the phone OS, if you can believe such a thing is possible. Even with Microsoft footing development costs most of those products fortunately never saw the light of day. Trubu is right, Microsoft had no choice but to start over from scratch if they even wanted to be taken seriously in the Mobile market. Only a very small amount of the population wants to spend hours hacking and tweaking their phone's OS to make it usable to make as simple thing as a phone call. Last edited by scottjl; 06-09-2010 at 07:38 PM. |
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06-09-2010, 07:36 PM | #144 |
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Exactly what I was going to say. Android is obviously a lot more open than iOS, but you still have to root your device if you want to do some of the really fun stuff.
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Personally I'm in geek heaven. It's great to have two heavyweights like Apple and Google waging an all-out cagematch to see who can deliver the coolest features and the hottest hardware, after years and years of stagnation in the mobile space. As a consumer, it doesn't get much better than this.
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06-09-2010, 11:28 PM | #147 | |
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I don't need a full OS, but I won't buy a tablet that doesn't have a traditional file system, nor one that doesn't show up as an external drive to drag and drop files onto with no software needed. I now some like all the syncing and other new methods of file management etc. But not me. I'm a traditionalist and I'll stick with devices with traditional folder systems until I have absolutely no options to keep using devices with such systems. But as you said, Apple didn't make this as a lite tablet PC--it's designed as a media consumption tablet and web browser, nothing more nothing less (well random apps too!). So my problem is more just wanting a lite Tablet PC--don't need a full OS, but needs to be more than a consumption device as I need stylus mark up options etc. etc. Last edited by dmaul1114; 06-09-2010 at 11:31 PM. |
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