Unusable? Does that it it won't start? Crashes frequently? Won't create a document?
I have OmniFocus on my iMac and OmniFocus on my iPod touch. For my iMac it costs $80, for the iPod touch it costs £12 (sorry about currency difference) - it's clear that something will have to give on the iPod touch version and it does indeed! However, while it has reduced functionality compared to the Mac version I use it many times a day and find it hugely useful and in some ways its mobility and location awareness makes it even better than the Mac version! Apple's version of Mail on the iPod touch is a very different beast to Mail on the Mac. As Sam points out, some people may well say that Mail and OmniFocus on the iPod touch are "unusable" or similar phrases whereas I'd disagree. In the case of OF, if you expect a £12 program to be as featured as an $80 program you will be disappointed. Similarly, 'iWorks' for the iPad costs $30, for the Mac it's $80 and again it seems likely to me that Apple will not give you $80 worth of software for $30. Finally, as Sam alludes, some people on the web write the most ill informed rubbish I've ever had the misfortune to read. A rip off? Someone 'reviewed' the Good Food Guide app and gave it one star because it didn't show up the 3 curry houses in the same street as the writer lived! Someone else pointed out that the GFG is not a Yellow Pages! Sadly, this is what can pass for so called 'software assessment' on the internet by some very uninformed people. What I plan to do is try out Pages, which is all I'm interested in, in the Apple store and see if it meets my needs. If it doesn't I suspect it's likely to be due to the way you get Pages documents on and off the iPad which it sounds from several reviews I've read to be a nasty and convoluted process that seems in need of a serious overhaul. However, roll on the 28th I say :-) Stephen On 14 May 2010, at 21:18, Ranulph Glanville wrote: > Basically, they are described as unusable and a rip off. > > For me this is bad news indeed. I had hoped to use an iPad instead of a > laptop, but this clearly won't work. “The Gulf of Mexico is a very big ocean. The amount of volume of oil and dispersant we are putting into it is tiny in relation to the total water volume,” - BP chief executive Tony Hayward, May 2010 No problem then ... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB.
