Re: [NTLK] [OT] New iPhones/iPhone OS 3.0

Steve,
That execution comment was funny :-) but its true each person works different with each device. Anyway I'm not saying that palms and newts are fundamentally different as the core of a PDA would include a basic organizer but I would agree with Jon that to call a classic palm OS device a PDA is dumbing down the term and idea of a true PDA.
I tried quick silver on my laptop for adding tags in the spotlight comment field but the add on for that didn't work to my liking so I found an app called tagbot that tags and then manages/keeps track of all tags you've applied (which QS didn't). I haven't had time to try the other functions in QS but they do look to have Assist potential from what I read about them. (so I can't really answer your question about my use of assist compared to QS as I haven't used QS enough)

I never really looked to Assist to tell me stuff I didn't know but to help me easily store and go through stuff I already know. I'm sure if a modern assist was on the iphone it would include web searches too (although didnt one of the newts web browsers add some assist keywords?).

Joe Reilly
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From: Steven Scotten
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Subject: Re: [NTLK] [OT] New iPhones/iPhone OS 3.0
Sent: Jun 14, 2009 22:23

On Jun 14, 2009, at 6:18 PM, Reilly001os@aol.com wrote:

> Steven,
> I will agree that the intelligence of assist is limited by its
> keywords (and their synonyms) and I'll even go farther and agree
> that assists features are limited by the age it was designed in, but
> isn't limited better then absent?

Oh yes, limited is absolutely better than absent. What I'm trying to
understand is what I'm hearing as the claim that a Newton is not just
a better device than a Palm but a fundamentally different device than
a Palm. Everything that I ever did on a Newton I later did on a Palm,
just on a smaller screen. And in some cases, with greater ease and
accuracy (I can hear hundreds of people calling for my execution now).
I didn't really use either device as an organizer—almost every
electronic calendar or to-do app (handheld, desktop, web-based, all of
it) has forced me back to paper and pen, Newt's included (Things is
the first such application I haven't hated, and I'm not yet convinced
about it either).

I know my google comparison was perhaps unfair, but I was looking for
an example where the device could actually tell me something I didn't
already know.

Have you used Quicksilver on the Mac? I mentioned that before but is
that the sort of role that Assist played for you?

Steve
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