Re: iPhone and Shadow

As I type, my husband is entering his task items in Shadow.   = )

For anyone considering switching to an iPod, here is the feedback he left on
the iPod site.

> I bought an iPod Touch, hoping that it would replace my Palm organizer for
> Personal Information Management, as well as serving as an iPod.  I was
> disappointed to find that it is not yet ready for this, but I hope you will
> make the critical changes needed:
> 
>> 1.  Provide copy/cut/paste.
>> 2. Provide recurring to dos.
>> 3. Provide recurring events with end dates that can be entered on the iPod
>> Touch (it is a real pain to put a calendar note on each of the 14 days one is
>> going to be on leave).  More flexible repeating options are also needed
>> (e.g., the 28th of each month vs. the 4th Thursday or each month).
>> 4. Make the Fitaly keyboard available as an option, to DRAMATICALLY speed up
>> text entry. 
>> 5. Drastically reduce the number of taps and spins required to enter an
>> appointment.  
>> 6. Provide sychronization with Lotus Notes on Windows.
>> 7. Provide bluetooth keyboard support for note taking, email, etc.
> 
> There are a lot of things that I really like about the iPod Touch.  Let's just
> bring the task and calendar management up to a modern standard of usability.
> A good test: have Steve Jobs use one as his personal information manager and
> see how fast the changes would be made!
> 
> Thank you for reading this.
> Sincerely, Bill


 
On Mon, 13 Oct 2008, Peggy Hanton wrote:

# My husband recently switched from Datebook 6 on his Palm T3 to Things on
an
# iPodTouch.  

Thats a bit drastic .. DateBk (and Shadow) are so 'dense' with
awesome, and the iPhone is so pretty-but-with-less-density :)

# His comment this morning:  the iPodTouch is more flash than functionality.

Easily; the iPhone/Touch are gorgeous UIs in a lot of ways, but
its based on simplicity; a low end Treo or the like has far more function
than the newer gadgets, much more bang for the buck. But they're not
pretty or trendy and Palm (and MS with WinMob) have been sitting too long
on their laurels so these new flashy devices really catch the eye.
(They're 'new' as well as 'fancy', if not functional.)

# Keyboard is slower and less predictable.
# The rollers to set times and dates are clunky ‹ not as fast as T3 by a
long
# shot.  

Aye, those especially; pretty, but the number of taps to manage
the calendar can drive you nuts.

# You can¹t select and delete text with one click ‹ you have to click,
click,
# click each letter or number.

And of course no cut and paste!

# He is considering Shadow for his T3.

Don't make me get philisophical.. again :)

I still adore my T|T3.

I sort of prefer the T|T3 over the T|X, but the T|X does have wifi
.. if onyl it had the iPhones browser, which is a killer app. IF Palkm had
nailed the browser down that well, I think they'd still be ni a much
better position.

iPhone is the hotcakes right now, vbut I wonder if it will stay
this way; it is attractive, light, and well designed (typical Apple is
pretty good engineering), but at the same time it is more appliance than
platform -- it does what Apple wants it to do, and you're welcome to buy
into that (also typical Apple.) With Android out there (more platform than
appliance, as it does less and not as flashy, but it is open to developers
to improve it any which way) we'll see what consumers want .. will they
sacrifice prettyness and ipodness for something that is mroe functional
(or will be down the road..)

(More philsophy.. will developers go where the market is, or go
where it is fun and eaier to develop for? And will consumers follow the
devs, or lead them?)

Crazy times!

jeff

For those who want open source handheld insanity, look at
http://www.openpandora.org/ .. not for the feint at heart, and sold out
for a few months. Linux, keyboard, high res touchscreen, gaming controls
as well, but with wifi, dual SD HD slots, and bluetooth. Insane!

--
If everyone would put barbecue sauce on their food, there would be no war.



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