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Re: Where's all the good stuff like iPhone and Android have?!

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Originally Posted by dannzeman (Post 531216)

You've also got to realize Apple has all their apps in one convenient to find location - iTunes. If we had every Windows Mobile app in one spot it'd be the same thing for us. Plus, everything Apple does gets so much media hype that if you create one very simple app that does something well a lot of people are going to find out about it.

I have a challenge for any Windows Mobile hatin' Apple fanboys out there: Find an app you love on the iPhone, post its details and a link here and I bet the community will be able to find a Windows Mobile app thats comparable. I think this will give everyone a better understanding of what is and isn't available for WinMo and maybe get some developers pointed in the right direction. Maybe I should start learning C++/C#...

I definitely agree with you on the role of iTunes, that helps tremendously and I think having such a repository for PPC devices would be equally useful...Microsoft is working on it and we have the foundations for that app over at XDA.

I really appreciate the web-apps that interface with popular websites, such as yelp, facebook, and so on. Here's a great one that I'd like to have, in answer to your second paragraph:
http://gizmodo.com/5085907/snow-reports
Very simple and elegant.

That said, these apps really shouldn't be difficult to code, and I'll gladly pay the $1 or $2 that some of them ask for simply for the sake of convenience. While this achieves the same thing as loading up a favorite or bookmark in IE/Opera, all the info is available at-a-glance (something which may not be the case for web pages).

Lastly, one thing that a lot of iphone apps do well is their presentation and interface...but that's mostly aesthetic and up to the developer to implement. With the push to a more "touch" interface (as opposed to tiny buttons to be pressed with a stylus) I think we, as PPC users, will begin to see more.

Re: Where's all the good stuff like iPhone and Android have?!

I started a new thread here: http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread...635#post531635
to start this challenge.

Re: Where's all the good stuff like iPhone and Android have?!

The Web Apps sould be relativly easy to develope. All they are doing is simplfying the requested info(IMHO since am not a programer). I might just be me, but I would rather bookmark the info than pay someone the money.

On a note on irony. On that website they have a contest givaway for a mobile GPS program for Ski Resorts. What vphone do they display it on? Click here to see
http://www.onthesnow.com/prizes/sign...i%20121508

Re: Where's all the good stuff like iPhone and Android have?!

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Originally Posted by MrShoe (Post 531654)

The app is SatSki and has 3 different price points: 39 euro for 2 weeks, 59 euro for seasonal, and 79 euro for unlimited. ah...rip off. ](*,)

Re: Where's all the good stuff like iPhone and Android have?!

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Originally Posted by dannzeman (Post 531216)

I have a challenge for any Windows Mobile hatin' Apple fanboys out there: Find an app you love on the iPhone, post its details and a link here and I bet the community will be able to find a Windows Mobile app thats comparable. I think this will give everyone a better understanding of what is and isn't available for WinMo and maybe get some developers pointed in the right direction. Maybe I should start learning C++/C#...

i challenge you :)

a fake call/(fake sms app too :D) that works with touchflo 3D... (not fake call app... by works with touch flow 3D, i mean acts like a real call.. too many people have tf3d phones and you just look like an ***)

OR

the ability to change the patterns of the flashing lights on the d pad for specific notifications... i.e. sms, email, charging, etc.

please.

Re: Where's all the good stuff like iPhone and Android have?!

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Originally Posted by chrisaroz (Post 530856)

3 Pages of great iPhone apps:
http://gizmodo.com/tag/app-directory/

i dont see anything there that doesnt have a winmo equivalent.

Re: Where's all the good stuff like iPhone and Android have?!

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Originally Posted by mike171562 (Post 544051)

i dont see anything there that doesnt have a winmo equivalent.

If you know of some start posting in this thread http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread...635#post531635
Thats the point of starting that new thread, so this one doesn't get so far off topic.

Re: Where's all the good stuff like iPhone and Android have?!

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Originally Posted by jbbosu (Post 525832)

Not that I would ever get an iPhone, but they do have some cool/useful apps that are strictly licensed for Apple/non WM devices (loopt, simplify, etc).

I know there are a ton of alternatives for most of the iApps, but sometimes they just offer an easier, better GUI than some WM options.

The same could be said for AOL vs. regular "there you go, have at it" dialup back in the day. AOL was great for those who didn't have the know-how, time or patience to strike out on their own and avoid the walled garden.

Re: Where's all the good stuff like iPhone and Android have?!

nice analogy. winmo needs Koi Pond.

Re: Where's all the good stuff like iPhone and Android have?!

OK, let me throw my 2 cents in. If you're really that "dumb-founded" with the iphone, just buy it!! I mean, yeah the iphone is nice, but I think people have taken the iphone hype waaay out of proportion. I used an iphone my friend has for like 5 minutes and I was not impressed at all. I love using a phone that I can customize to my likings and basically, with a ppc, there is unlimited customizing. It never seizes to amaze me that everytime I go to ppcgeeks or xda, there's a new development that someone has taken the time out for to make our lives easier. Granted, i'm a rom flashing junkie:mrgreen:, and there are sooo many genius rom cooks out there for WM phones, can you flash an iphone? I'm not trying to knock the iphone, don't get me wrong, I guess my point is, is that you say that ppc's lack programs and games and such and I completely disagree. If anything, I think you can do alot more with a ppc than an iphone, as far as customizing and tweaking. And like I said, if you like the iphone that much, just go buy it; even though I think the iphone is ridiculously priced.