giving up on ipod touch
Brenda Wallace
I can't get things done without copy paste. It's also frustrating that
i can't get data in and out of it until i get back to a sync cable.
I'm very much used to OBEXing files between gadets and sharing with
clients and coleages. I really need OTA syncing of the calendar, and
some way to turn emails into meetings/tasks. I also got tired of
converting divx into quicktime and syncing -- so much easer to just
copy to sd and play in TCMP.
The ipodtouch form factor is beautiful, the screen gorgeous, and the
browser is great, but I'm not very productive when using it. It's a
music player with browser tacked on, and some small selection of apps
that Apple have allowed us to use.
Btw: have you see Iambic's response to questions on when agendus will
be out for iphone? They've replied that needing to buy macs to use
their SDK, and then hoping & praying that apple will sign and approve
their apps just doesn't work for them.
Donald Stidwell
That's why my Touch will not replace my Wing. The Wing is a PDA with
phone functions. The Touch is a media player above all else with some
PDA functions. I have to admit that I love reading eBooks on my Touch
and viewing movies and browsing the web, but for PIM functions, it
can't touch the Wing.
WebIS, as far as I know, is still planning on producing Pocket
Informant for the Touch/iPhone, although without copy/paste
functionality it too will be crippled.
Don
Jeff Kirvin
Brenda Wallace
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> Which is delightful irony considering Iambic began as a Newton developer.
I predict Iambic will eventually bite the bullet and try anyways.
An alternative kernel-ed firmware would work nicely on the ipod
touch.. there's a ton of work to get that going. The screen + touch
recognition would need reverse engineering to work with a "normal" bsd
or linux kernel -- and then the wifi.
The macos kernel that runs in the outta-the-box ipod touch is doing
the check that applications have been signed by apple before allow
them to run, so at least it's not palladium style hardware implemented
checking.
There's so much to the device that is a mystery. Does it report back
to apple what you're running? Some folks studying the iphone/ipod
reckon they've seen it do this.
Man Ching Cheung
programs that can sync to an online account? I use a todo list program
called Zenbe. It actually lets you Make lists offline and sync them
later, unlike some other clients that require an always on data
connection. However, the ones that let you enter data offline may be
hard to find.
mcc