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Originally Posted by qwazix View Post
I really can't get why people think they need all those apps. Who has a facebook app on his pc? A youtube uploader? A banking app? Do they even exist?

All those things are done through the browser. And the N900 has got a wide selection of browsers (In fact it has all of the browsers contrasting to the iPhone that has only one*). I understand that sometimes it's nicer to use twitter through an app, but it's far from a need. It's a convenience.

The big point of your post though is not that. You need to use facebook and it's a great convenience to have a great app for it. I can't tell you you are wrong. The iPhone is the best smartphone for your use. I, on the other hand don't use facebook, nor iCloud. I use svn however, and php, and ssh, and I run my personal 'Cloud' with unison. And the fact that I can do all those things easily, 5 minutes after reflash is for me as essential as it is for you to be able to talk to your facebook friends.

I can certainly understand that for an engineer on the field having mobile autocad is just awesome. (I was using an elaborate dwg2pdf conversion scheme to have the same info on the N900). If I was still working on site I would have considered having an iOS or even better a big-screen-Android device only for that.

So stop telling everybody here to abandon ship and go buy an iPhone because it's better. Highlight the merits of the device, debate for certain usages, describe your usage pattern and why it fits with the iPhone and let us tell you why ours fits with the N900 or N9. And because you wouldn't imagine somebody doing something it doesn't mean that somebody doesn't. And here in maemo.org, because of the nature of the N900, you'll find a very high percentage of these people who were filtered here from other platforms.

* All browsers on the iPhone use the safari rendering engine. Rearranging the address bar doesn't make chrome a different browser. Opera mini is not a full browser
How are you still not getting this?

With a PC you have a full 12"- display, at least 1600x900 pixels, you have a real full keyboard, a mouse with 3 (sometimes more) buttons. You also have a lot more processing power. Most PC's are at least quad core 2GHz+ with much more and much faster RAM. When you compare that to the new iPhone 5 with 640 x 1136 4" display, dual core 1.3GHz [ARM] processor, and 1GB of ram. You can't seriously think that it will perform the same way a PC does, and even if it did - the form factor does not lend it's self to the "web browser" format. I don't think anyone will claim it is easier to go on the full Facebook website on any mobile device than to use a properly made client.

There is also Atomic Web Browser for iOS which is neat.
 

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