On Jul 18, 12:46*am, SMS <scharf.ste...@geemail.com> wrote:
> David G. Imber wrote:
> > On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:36:47 +0000, Larry <no...@home.com> wrote:
>
> >> Any idea why they care so much?
>
> > * *I think you set yourself up for the reflexive answer "why do
> > you?"
>
> >> What a strange psychological phenomenon this little board of old
> >> electronics makes.....
>
> > * *You can say that again. Look, Apple users see the RIM device
> > as being deficient in ways that are important to them. BB users see
> > the iPhone as deficient in features that are important to them.
> > Windows Mobile users have features they champion that the other two
> > lack. Each thinks their platform offers the most best stuff. If
> > everyone's getting what they want there should be peace, right?
>
> > * *But each one wants their gang to dominate for a practical
> > reason, which is that if the whole world comes over to their side it's
> > bound to benefit their preferred technology.
>
> > * *There are definitely strong parallels to global politics and
> > religion. Hopefully no one's going to bomb anyone.
>
> Except that many of us can see the forest for the trees.
>
> I received an e-mail from my carrier today, telling me that it's time
> for my "new every two." I'd like a smart-phone with WiFi. That limits me
> two two choices from Verizon. Neither has a good browser like the
> iPhone, but actually what's more important to me is the ability to
> create, edit, and store Word and Excel documents. The iPhone can't do
> this, at least not yet. I tried going to the apps store to see if there
> were any programs to do this on the iPhone, but there are none (Mariner
> said they'd have one when the apps store launched, but no cigar).

I saw a digg that you can now do office docs on the iPhone last night.
Search DIGG for the latest.

Also there is a mobile client now for cloud computing with the iPhone,
I forget the name of it but there is a big Microsoft project and the
iPhone just got a mobile client for that yesterday