Here's a status report (bold)
Gordon's Notes: iPhone: my demandsCurrent score:
Non-negotiable:Wishes, not demands:
- Copy, Cut, Paste. (No)
- Search. (Contacts only)
- Tasks at least comparable to the 1994 PalmPilot tasks. (No)
- Synchronization with Outlook at least comparable to the modern Palm OS (in other words, flawed, but useable). A 256 character limit on contact comments is not acceptable. (No, not yet)
- Run FileMaker Remote. (No)
- Synchronize notes. (No)
- Multi select and process for email (Yes)
- Apple needs to fix the "international problem". It's ridiculously easy to run up a $1000 phone bill unintentionally when outside the US. (Partial)
- Let the iPhone bridge a computer to its net connection. (No)
- A real calculator. (Yes)
- Flatten the recessed headphone socket. (Yes)
- Site-selective synchronization - so can sync at both work and home, but not send home data to a work machine. (No)
- Support for a bluetooth keyboard and mouse. (No)
- Video out - so I can use a larger display. (No)
- Encrypted data stores. (No)
- Third party app support (Yes)
- Flash support, but not from Adobe. (No)
- GPS (Yes)
- Custom ring and alert tones (Yes)
- Allow file storage on the iPhone. (No)
- essential: 2/9
- nice: 5/9
The only saving grace is the SDK and the Apple Store platform. I expect 3rd party developers will give me most of what I want. I'm buying iPhone 2.0, so I'll find out soon enough. Palm is dead one way or another, so I will have to work differently.
Still, pretty lousy score!
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