Re: Funny story.

[Matt Hargett <matt () use net>]

> So those are my recommendations for the day:
> 1. Don't insult the nice dominatrix
> 2. Don't buy a Blackberry over a Sidekick. In fact, go get a Sidekick 
> now along with some Hiptop stock. It's far more likely that the Sidekick 
> will get some really cool exchange syncing applications than it is that 
> the Rim will get a decent user interface.

Not necessarily. Danger, Inc (makers of the hiptop) have at least two 
major problems:
1) You can't make an app for it and distribute it. You have to get it 
signed, approved, etc and they haven't done that for very many people. 
To me, this seems like they don't understand the platform is a commodity 
and it's the apps (and the usability thereof) that really sells these 
things.

2) Related to point 1, is that T-Mobile's contract restrictions are part 
of the reason they haven't opened up their platform or done much with it.

The other things, like the fact the hardware is substandard and most 
people have gone through 3 a year since they came out, the radio 
firmware still wasn't quite ready for primetime when they shipped, etc, 
etc. I would wait for their rev2, and pray for an open platform that you 
can actually write apps for and give to people that can also run it.

On a side note, my former roommate of 5 years, Robey, is an engineer 
there and he said played me some of the songs we wrote together in MIDI 
form on his hiptop. I don't know if they shipped with any of them with 
those "sample" songs -- can anyone take a look/listen?

(None of the above information came from Robey, btw. Danger is just in 
Palo Alto and several of my friends have them and have dealt with the 
nightmare they can be. A couple really like them and have had minimal 
problems, though, if you don't count that T-Mobile uses Cingular's 
network in the Bay Area and it is... highly suboptimal.)

I had my eyes on the Treo 600; anyone have experiences with that? (Not 
that I have any money to buy such a thing ;>)
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