Thread: No competitors
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Originally Posted by johnkzin View Post
it is? without jailbreaking, today, I can:

I can use it to remote desktop to my macs at home and work via ssh+vnc?
I can type extensive notes on it via physical keyboard?
I can use it to fix servers at work via ssh?
I can download and build a huge library of software for it?
I can develop directly on it in python?
I can use it as a replacement for my personal unix box, customizing and tinkering with it at the command line?
I can use AIM, Yahoo IM, MSN messenger, and Jabber on it?

All of that is news to me. And yes, those are things I consider to be necessary for me to purchase a device in this category. When the SDK fixes some of that, and when Apple finnaly puts bluetooth on it, then I'll consider it to competition. And not one second sooner.


it's funny. Those are the only way something can be a competitor to the NIT? ONLY if it can do those things? That makes it a very niche product.

Jailbroken the iphone can do 3, 4, 5 (that's how it was jailbroken in the first place) and 6.

Out of the box you can probably find a web apps that can let you cover the same options.

I currently use both an iphone and the NIT i like the screen size of the tablet, but the UI, speed, and stability of the iphone. I consider the touch and iphone to be a competitor under what the OP has stated, but each have their pros and cons that are up to the end user to choose what to spend their money on.

With the growing list of applications created by the ever expanding jailbreak community, almost all software shortcomings of the iphone / itouch are disappearing. The added fact that my jailbroken iphone is faster and more stable than my officially sterile NIT is a bonus in apple's favor
 

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