Re: iPod Let's Rock Event - UPdates to nano and touch
 

simple solution, make canola the default interface. problem, that makes the talets jaust another pmp...

Re: iPod Let's Rock Event - UPdates to nano and touch
 

Of course that means developers will have to lean yet another quirky API to make their apps integrate well.

Re: iPod Let's Rock Event - UPdates to nano and touch
 

The thing developers need to remember is that users aren't dumb, they just have better things to do. I've been using Linux since about 93 IIRC and sometimes I just wanna give it all up, it can be a colossal waste of time. I'll be switching from Ubuntu to Mac OS X for desktop use this year. (Though you can pry my MythTV box from my cold, dead, ssh & bash abused fingers)

A2DP may be great, theoretically, but look at the threads about getting it 'working'. Yikes. I'll stick with wired headphones, thanks. Plug and play.

Re: iPod Let's Rock Event - UPdates to nano and touch
 

btw, i should probably state that i much prefer the default media player or youamp over the fullscreen apps like canola or ukmp.

yes, i know canola can be run in a window, but for that it needs a cli switch so...

Re: iPod Let's Rock Event - UPdates to nano and touch
 

if nokia took the time to properly implement it in the maemo gui, it would be no harder to use then any other bluetooth handsfree.

the problem is that they dont, so someone else have to do all the work of getting it to work in the first place, and then come up with a way to get it into the ui...

Re: iPod Let's Rock Event - UPdates to nano and touch
 

I guess, I like the concept. I just hate how that's the only way to do things (you can't drag and drop as far as I know). Not to mention iTunes is bloated.

Re: iPod Let's Rock Event - UPdates to nano and touch
 

But it works. The utility of mobile devices is inversely proportional to how stable and how long things take to work. You can have every feature in the world, but if it takes 10 minutes ( like the GPS ) or is unreliable ( Diablo reboots anyone? ) it severely diminishes the value.

While iTunes is mac/win and slightly bloated ( it's actually not that bad if you don't use coverflow ) that's only a problem for a tiny segment of the computing marketplace as much as linux people would like to believe otherwise.

Re: iPod Let's Rock Event - UPdates to nano and touch
 

yep, the rest just buy bigger hardware when they wonder why their year or two old current gear is no longer up to the task...

*baaaa*

Re: iPod Let's Rock Event - UPdates to nano and touch
 

Well, when I consider why I bought an n800 it was:

web browsing
instant messaging
voip

Many of the other things it can do are added value to me (I do like having a mini-computer with me to run my own software on).

However, with the iTouch now having mic and etc. it now can do what I wanted in my n800 and if I were choosing today between the two the new (not previous) iTouch would win out.

Re: iPod Let's Rock Event - UPdates to nano and touch
 

The task in this case is simply analyzing, indexing and serving their tunes... which iTunes does quite well. I'd love to find a Linux equivalent that handles the smart playlists, cover art, ratings and syncing options, but I don't think it exists. Songbird is close, but they blew it when they changed the API for all of the plugins.

I wonder if iTunes will come up with a way to sync over wifi - even to a non-iPod. That would (literally) rock.