@Ducman69 .. You know idiots like you keep saying that. But for every 1 fart app there is a 1000 truly useful apps.
There are a number of apps I use everyday that aren't available for any other platform. Oracle CRM, Salesforce, Basecamp, iBarclaycard, Dow Jones etc as well as being able to use your iPhone to accept credit cards.
How about just a decent Facebook and Twitter app ? The iPhone is the only half decent implementation going around.
@Ducman69 Smartphone is really an investment (most cost more than Dell business notebooks). To pay for something useless - here I mean not able to meet my needs, will be the least I will want to do. For basic stuff, my Japanese feature phone is doing enough already.
MS has only one good choice, create their own phone like Apple, otherwise, they will have to provide enough incentive for others to create phones for WP7.
@NewBie Why would you want to be restricted to a single model? Its a great looking OS, but some peeps like sliders, some touch, some bigger screens some smaller, and being able to reach different price-points can mean a greater userbase. =)
@taligent There aren't 1000 useful apps in the appstore. Get real will you, when Jobs is talking about how good the appstore is he's talking to 16 year old kids who wanna play games and do stupid things.
All research says that most apps are never used more than a week.
Besides, the quality of the apps nowadays are really low...all the wanna do is earn cash, they don't care if you hate the bad app you bought, you still aint getting your money back.
@Carnival the AppStore does not contain only games etc... yes they are a vast majority but they are not the only ones around ... it has 225,000 apps ... to humour you let us say 200,000 are "fart apps" ...there are still a good 25,000 apps one could choose from and use ...
Eh, I don't know about that statement. I have a bunch of apps on my iPhone that I use all the time and are what make my phone indispensable to me.
I suspect that most people that bash the App Store have either never spent much time with it, or have used it and tried to get by using only free apps and found many of them lacking.
For me, my iPod Touch collects dust. There are about 20 apps that I have loaded - none of which are amazing or magical. All of the core functionality that I use are covered in the App Store, Android Marketplace and Windows Marketplace (or XDA). Sure there are some cool apps in one place but not another. But there is hardly a monopoly of good apps in one environment.
My guess is that for 90% of people they use a majority of applications that can be found across multiple platforms. They just don't know it.
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Good, I'd rather have ten really useful applications than have to sift through pages of fart apps.
If you see pages of fart apps, you blew it. (hehehe)
@Ducman69 .. You know idiots like you keep saying that. But for every 1 fart app there is a 1000 truly useful apps.
There are a number of apps I use everyday that aren't available for any other platform. Oracle CRM, Salesforce, Basecamp, iBarclaycard, Dow Jones etc as well as being able to use your iPhone to accept credit cards.
How about just a decent Facebook and Twitter app ? The iPhone is the only half decent implementation going around.
@Ducman69 Smartphone is really an investment (most cost more than Dell business notebooks). To pay for something useless - here I mean not able to meet my needs, will be the least I will want to do. For basic stuff, my Japanese feature phone is doing enough already.
MS has only one good choice, create their own phone like Apple, otherwise, they will have to provide enough incentive for others to create phones for WP7.
@NewBie Why would you want to be restricted to a single model? Its a great looking OS, but some peeps like sliders, some touch, some bigger screens some smaller, and being able to reach different price-points can mean a greater userbase. =)
@taligent There aren't 1000 useful apps in the appstore. Get real will you, when Jobs is talking about how good the appstore is he's talking to 16 year old kids who wanna play games and do stupid things.
All research says that most apps are never used more than a week.
Besides, the quality of the apps nowadays are really low...all the wanna do is earn cash, they don't care if you hate the bad app you bought, you still aint getting your money back.
@Carnival the AppStore does not contain only games etc... yes they are a vast majority but they are not the only ones around ... it has 225,000 apps ... to humour you let us say 200,000 are "fart apps" ...there are still a good 25,000 apps one could choose from and use ...
@taligent Actually the facebook app on WebOS is better ATM....it merges events with the OS calender
@taligent Someone hit a nerve there?
@Carnival
Eh, I don't know about that statement. I have a bunch of apps on my iPhone that I use all the time and are what make my phone indispensable to me.
I suspect that most people that bash the App Store have either never spent much time with it, or have used it and tried to get by using only free apps and found many of them lacking.
@ebgolfin
How did you survive before the iPhone?
For me, my iPod Touch collects dust. There are about 20 apps that I have loaded - none of which are amazing or magical. All of the core functionality that I use are covered in the App Store, Android Marketplace and Windows Marketplace (or XDA). Sure there are some cool apps in one place but not another. But there is hardly a monopoly of good apps in one environment.
My guess is that for 90% of people they use a majority of applications that can be found across multiple platforms. They just don't know it.