Apple missed the boat with the iPhone?

[DMcCunney]

Originally Posted by NDPTAL85

Apparently our nation's stock exchange would appear to not be as concerned about the iPhone's battery life as you are. http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/07/...es.oks.iphone/

The stock market cares only about how much money Apple will make on the iPhone. Battery life is not on their radar.

On another note, I used to be a long time Palm OS user, 5 years over 5 devices (two Kyocera phones and 3 Treos) and I started using FictionWise for eBooks that I would read on the Treos. Last year I got the iPhone and I knew it was just a matter of time before the eBook scene exploded on the iPhone. eReader the company that owns FictionWise released the

It's the other way around. eReader began as Peanut Press, an early ebook publisher targeting the Palm platform, and the reader was Peanut Reader. Palm bought Peanut and made it the Palm digital MEdia Division, then sold it to Motricity, who renamed the operation ab=nd the reader eReader. Fictionwise bought eReader from Moericity and now owns the reader and the ebook catalog.
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Dennis

[radleyp]

Of course, the iphone is selling, it's the most touted gadget on the planet. My point was that it is not a device suited to the business user. My small law office will pass on it (as will other law firms I have spoken to, they mostly use Blackberries, whose battery life, as you surely know, is outstanding).

[RickyMaveety]

Originally Posted by radleyp

Of course, the iphone is selling, it's the most touted gadget on the planet. My point was that it is not a device suited to the business user. My small law office will pass on it (as will other law firms I have spoken to, they mostly use Blackberries, whose battery life, as you surely know, is outstanding).

Yup .... speaking as another attorney with a Motorola Q, a bluetooth headset and a Kindle ... having the iPhone as my phone and ebook reader would just not work well for me. However, I know the people who are iPhone fanatics are going to love being able to use it as an ebook reader.

[NDPTAL85]

Originally Posted by DMcCunney

The stock market cares only about how much money Apple will make on the iPhone. Battery life is not on their radar.


It's the other way around. eReader began as Peanut Press, an early ebook publisher targeting the Palm platform, and the reader was Peanut Reader. Palm bought Peanut and made it the Palm digital MEdia Division, then sold it to Motricity, who renamed the operation ab=nd the reader eReader. Fictionwise bought eReader from Moericity and now owns the reader and the ebook catalog.
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Dennis

I'm not sure if you actually clicked on the link I gave you but I wasn't referring to our nation's stock market in general but the company that runs it. Dow Jones itself has cleared the iPhone for use by its employees, the folks who RUN the exchange.

[NDPTAL85]

Originally Posted by daffy4u

When is someone going to post some pictures of the iPhone/Touch ereader component screen shots (hint hint hint)?

Here you go. 5 screen shots from my iPhone.

[radleyp]

NDPTAL: This article doesn't mean what you think. It clearly states that DJ will GIVE its employees a Blackberry, but that if they choose they can use an iphone if they buy it THEMSELVES. DJ employees can also buy other phones, such as Treos and MotoQ's, and use them but they will have to spend their own money. Who will do that? This is not an endorsement. And no company has yet had to put up with the battery problems of this phone: when they do they won't endorse, I am convinced of that.

[daffy4u]

Originally Posted by NDPTAL85

Here you go. 5 screen shots from my iPhone.

Thank you!

[NDPTAL85]

Here are the settings screenshots. You double tap on the screen to pull up the menu at the bottom of the first screenshot here.

[NDPTAL85]

Originally Posted by radleyp

NDPTAL: This article doesn't mean what you think. It clearly states that DJ will GIVE its employees a Blackberry, but that if they choose they can use an iphone if they buy it THEMSELVES. DJ employees can also buy other phones, such as Treos and MotoQ's, and use them but they will have to spend their own money. Who will do that? This is not an endorsement.

Considering that most of the folks who work on WallStreet make well into the six figures, having to buy their own iPhone (or any other device) is not going to be a problem. This is just the beginning. Eventually IT will support it to the extent of buying it for their employees. Other devices started out this way too.

[DMcCunney]

Originally Posted by NDPTAL85

Considering that most of the folks who work on WallStreet make well into the six figures, having to buy their own iPhone (or any other device) is not going to be a problem. This is just the beginning. Eventually IT will support it to the extent of buying it for their employees. Other devices started out this way too.

Support it requires IT being able to provide support, not just buying it for folks. My former employer bought Blackberries for folks who needed constant connectivity, and was reluctant to branch out from that. IT resources were limited, and there were limits to how many platforms they wished to maintain. As one of the IT staffers who would have been tasked with providing that support, I was all in favor, even though I'd have preferred a Treo.

DowJones' move validates Apple's decision to license ActiveSync from MS. The Blackberry's big win was push email and constant real time updates to Blackberries, with no need to connect to an email server and authenticate to check mail. I found it a mixed blessing, as the majority of stuff that hit my Inbox required no immediate attention or no attention at all, and the stuff that did require my attention couldn't be done from the BB. I needed to be at the office or at home where I could connect through the VPN to diddle the servers I administered.

The iPhone is a sleek and attractive device that pleases many users. whether it works well in a corporate setting remains to be seen.
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Dennis

[daffy4u]

Originally Posted by NDPTAL85

Here are the settings screenshots. You double tap on the screen to pull up the menu at the bottom of the first screenshot here.

I love the font size "HUGE".

[DMcCunney]

A less than thrilled response to Apple's MobileMe service, from David Pogue at the New York Times.

Apple has some problems to resolve.
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Dennis

[TallMomof2]

Originally Posted by DMcCunney

If it works for you, splendid. They have to get it right sometime.

FIOS is attractive but not available in my area. Given the nature of the technology, I don't expect it to be any time soon. Retrofitting fiber to the doorstep in NYC will be a very neat trick. There's already an enormous amount of stuff under the street. The last time I had a major cable modem outage, the Fire Department(!) had been running new emergency communications lines. I was a little startled to see the cable trucks with the huge coils and FDNY blazons. I hadn't known they had that equipment. Unfortunately, they weren't as careful not to disturb the other stuff under the street as Verizon and the cable company are.

My cable company keeps pushing a package with cable TV, high speed internet, and VOIP phone service. I've been passing, because it wouldn't be a net savings. It makes sense only if you make a lot of long distance calls (where VOIP is significantly cheaper), and I make next to none. For the occasional call I do make, I have a Qwest LD package with a 5 cent/min flat rate anywhere in the US.

Didn't realize you lived in NYC, I would think that if and when Verizon does Fios it would be to the main trunks in apartment buildings and from there it'd be copper unless your building is already fiber. For townhouses and single family homes I guess Verizon would deploy as they do in the suburbs. I'm a suburbanite and the block I live on was one of the first Verizon installed fiber. They don't blanket an entire community but skip around. My neighbor a couple of courts away didn't get fiber until 8 months after I did. My only quibble with Verizon is their cheap router but I took theirs out and had mine installed before the tech slammed the door on his truck in my driveway.

Does the Touch allow you to completely turn off the backlight? The Zodiac will do that, and I can read it quite well out of doors. I couldn't do so with the old Tungsten E the Zodiac replaced, which was a problem. It turns out there was a hack that would let me do so on the TE, but I didn't discover it till the E was dying and being replaced.

If the touch will let you turn the backlight off, you might see if it makes it usable out of doors.

I can turn off the backlight but I found out yesterday it actually works great outside if I turn the backlight all the way up. Usually I keep it about 20% but all the way up worked great outside with the sun coming over my shoulder.

What I really dislike about the Touch is no stylus, I'm constantly fat fingering the durn thing. Eventually, I'll get used to it.

That's a plus for my unit. I just dump ebook files directly into the appropriate directories on the SD cards with a USB reader. 3,500 and counting thus far...

I'm only using the Touch as a back up reading device but I'm hoping eReader on it improves. Right now when you go to your bookshelf at eReader/Fictionwise your books are listed with the most recent first at least I'm pretty sure that's the way it's done. You can only scroll through the list, haven't figured out a way to search. Once the books are on the Touch, you just have a listing. I would love to able to use folders and have a real directory. (Also would love that on my Kindle.)

[TallMomof2]

Originally Posted by DMcCunney

A less than thrilled response to Apple's MobileMe service, from David Pogue at the New York Times.

Apple has some problems to resolve.
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Dennis

What really bothered me is that one poor user lost all but 48 emails. MobileMe took every email off her Mac and only 48 were up on Apple's servers. Every email communication she's every sent or received (and saved) gone except those 48. Wow!

[DMcCunney]

Originally Posted by TallMomof2

What really bothered me is that one poor user lost all but 48 emails. MobileMe took every email off her Mac and only 48 were up on Apple's servers. Every email communication she's every sent or received (and saved) gone except those 48. Wow!

I would be speechless with rage.

That sort of experience is one reason I like GMail. While I can get it delivered as POP mail, I don't. I prefer the web interface. And the mail all sits on Google's servers, and Google is fanatic about not losing data, so multiple redundant copies exist. I already learned the hard way that Outlook behaves very strangely if the mailbox.pst file hits 2GB (with symptoms including new mail not getting delivered and multiple copies of old mail mysteriously appearing. Fixing that problem is possible but laborious.)

I currently have 2.2GB used of 6.9GB allocated in the GMail account, and no problems.

I've seen people express privacy concerns over web based email, but I don't share them. While Google theoretically could snoop in my mail, they jhave no reason to do so, and I don't especially care if they do. As a general rule, I don't consider email secure, and if it's so private I'd be embarrassed if anyone else saw it, I don't say it in email.
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Dennis