Thread: Should I just get an iPhone?
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gerbick
2009-06-24 , 15:16
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Originally Posted by nilchak View Post
While a typical iPhone has say 2 pages (screens) of apps, maybe one page of apps is all bull - the screensaver app, the hot girl app, the iFart, the fish in the water with sound effects app etc etc.
I have none of those.

But the productive apps that are there - seem to be pretty functional and complete in nature - which is something that is missing from the NIT apps (except the star apps).
The best app for productivity QuickOffice costs 20 bucks. 20 damn bucks! But I can open, edit, manipulate MS Office files while on the go - something that I've oddly needed when I didn't have my laptop. Sure, you can argue that OpenOffice, AbiWord or something else can be "hacked" or put onto the NIT; but it crashes, has UI problems or just sometimes fails.

On the iPhone: Evernote, AroundMe, Air Sharing, Box.net, Transmate, Joost and quite a few others don't have alternatives on the NIT.

GV Mobile is just like DialCentral, but polished. MagicPad is a lot like Xournal. 1Password (which syncs with desktop) is a lot like Password Safe, and some other overlaps. But the NIT has very few high end 3rd party apps that has any updates. Skype, Gizmo, Rhapsody (ok, I don't use this one at all)... no update since 2007 for the most part.

To the user this is what matters most - as much as the openness of the device.
What good is an open device to a non-programmer user if the user-end applications are missing ?
100% agree here.
 

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