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Originally Posted by underscore
The apps will be the same as the imolest/icantcallanyone, it uses the same firmeware no? And most of those apps are gimicky junk anyways. But now you can run them on a bigger screen that they weren't designed to run on (ie pixelation, no?)
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Most Windows apps are junk too. There's always 100 useless poorly written programs for every really good one on any platform.
It was mentioned that many websites make poor use of Flash and are nothing more than resource hogs. Does that make Flash bad? No, it means the developers are bad. Same thing with the App Store - there are lots of crappy developers looking to make a quick buck flogging their shitty apps. There are also really good developers who create top-quality apps.
Case in point, a guy at work owns a boat (a real boat) and he bought an iPhone (bought, not signed up and got one free) and an app for navigation with all the charts for the BC coast and Vancouver Island. All for less than half the usual $1,000 and up prices of other commercially available systems. And the accuracy of the iPhone version was just as good (he tested it against a friends system).
I'd like you to tell him that the iPhone and app store is full of useless junk.
And your comment about "pixellation" causes me to lose credibility in anything you say. C'mon, you might as well say that running Windows on a 30" display will make all my Windows programs and icons get "pixellated" because of the much higher resolution. Do you have any idea how software is written and how windows and other items are rendered on a display device? No, I guess not.