Thread: Nokia N900 RX-51 New Tablet/Smart Phone Pictures And Specification - Revealed
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nilchak is offline nilchak
2009-08-10 , 20:03
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Originally Posted by sachin007 View Post
Well i personally think most of the online apps where there to get a flashy version of the mobile websites. Yeah they were useful.. but i believe in having a better web browser and more well designed websites than having individual apps to the website. With the mobile hardware becoming more powerful i dont think there is a need to for online apps. But i do agree the accelerometer was a big innovation by apple. Most of the games were fun to play. But again after a while it again became boring after all the different games were almost similar to each other with just a different front.
While there is nothing against having a mobile platform mature enough to provide a better browser and browsing experience (like the NIT's), that does not go against the reason for having desktop apps.

A good desktop app can integrate many facets of different apps (via API's etc) to provide a more enhanced mobile experience (which a browser app can do too - think tweetdesk, iGoogle etc, cant think of much now).

Again a good desktop app with Maemo API's van integrate these disparate apps with the Maemo based device data.
Like getting contacts to integrate with Calendar with Google calendar with Facebook contacts with Yahoo Contacts (much like what Pre does I suppose).

If everything was supposed to have been done via browser, why do we cry for a good PIM app on the NIT and not use some online PIM tool itself ?

No sir, a browser based app all the time doesn't cut the mustard all the time.
 

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