iPhone Apps - what's the point?
Maybe I’m just dumb, but I really can’t see the point of many of the new applications available to download through Apple’s new App Store. If your app needs to be online to work, and doesn’t do anything clever with Core Animation or similar—why not just run it as a web app?
Why do I want to run NetNewsWire as an application (and tie up the rest of the iPhone) when it’s doing exactly the same thing as the mobile NewsGator web app?
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- Pete Lambert
- 56 days ago
I think it’s got to be down to caching in the case of NNW.
As an example, I don’t get any O2 signal in the toilets at my office, but if I’ve got a load of feeds synced up before I go in then I’m good to go.
- #2
Just losing the [Read] links would be worth it for me! I’m forever confusing myself between it meaning [Reeed] (which it doesn’t) or [Redd] (especially as some feeds have [Read]==[Reeed] in them too).
However, as an iPodTouch owner I’m really disappointed so far that few of the ‘net apps aggresively cache anything for later off-line (no-wifi) use. An RSS reader that cached one level of links would be nice. Even Apple’s Weather could show me a dated ‘last update’ when offline, but it doesn’t.