Thread: What's your Maemo device's killer app?
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Originally Posted by nosa101 View Post
You are missing the point.

Look at this way, there two options to take screenshots.
a) you press a button, lets say the camera button (with the lens shut)
b)CTRL+SHIFT+P

WHich is the more intuitive option?


EDIT: Having the command line is good, no question about that. Look at the App Manager*, for instance. Using it download apps is a lot more intuitive than the apt-get option. It is easier too look through apps and find which ones to download. SOmetimes, I go to the app manager with no app in mind. I just hope something catches my eye. The command line can't do that.




*Ignore the fact that it is slow
It does look like something you used to get on a 5 1/4 " floppy glued to the inside back cover of a 3 ring binder that held 40 pages of double spaced, mimeographed instructions.

But that is part of its charm.
It's just missing that mimeograph smell, that's all.

Simple and powerful are not mutually exclusive and for people who were trained on programs that were distributed the way I mentioned, it is very intuitive. Intuition isn't magic, it is the sum total of all conditioned responses an individual has learned IMHO.

For some reason I'm reminded of how Scottie "intuitively" picked up a mouse and tried to speak to the computer in one of the Star Trek movies.

MC does what it does well. If you want slick just cruise on in from the computer console and file manager of your choice.

BTW, Openssh v5.1p1-6.maemo5 is my nominee for killer app.
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