Thread: Please help me decide: n800 or iPod Touch
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Eric Qel-Droma is offline Eric Qel-Droma
2007-12-26 , 16:01
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#18
Originally Posted by Moonshine View Post
FWIW software installation and updates on the tablets (for mainstream items) is point and click through Application Manager which is built in. (and not closed off too just Nokia repositories)
But does this work for EVERY application? It seems like everytime someone on these forums has a problem, the first answer is something like "but did you reflash the os and then download the tarball from this guy's site and blah blah blah..." OR the answer is simply "Yeah, that's buggy. We'll ask the Linux gods for a new one and hopefully they'll comply."

I don't mean to get snarky, and I really appreciate your post. However, I have yet to see anything on here that convinces me that I should want to deal with the rather constant headaches of an n800 at this point.

For what it's worth, I have tried Linux on my desktop and my laptop before, and I did not find it to be the Windows killer everyone says it is. That doesn't mean it was worthless, but my experience tells me that it is not for everyone.

Originally Posted by Moonshine View Post
My mother got a 16gb Touch for xmas yesterday that I helped her setup. Small, slick and easy -- yes. But I would be bored with it within a week without the "additional apps" that people are now counting on being here in Feb. iTunes drives me insane as it's bloated and picky about formats and requires an iTunes account (with Cc) for things like coverart downloads. It would be the first thing I would look to replace.
This is a very helpful portion of your post. I'm really not looking for something I can tinker with--I want basic internet and PIM functions, specifically a calendar and an alarm clock. I want a portable media player. I have iTunes right now (but no iPod, believe it or not) and I have already given them my Cc# because I used iTunes for watching BSG last season. (Not so much in the coming season, of course, but that's beside the point.) So I guess it's pretty clear that, just like Linux, the iPod Touch is not for everyone.

Thanks again.

Eric