june gloom on 12/4/2009 at 19:08
This whole "playlist" thing is The Cancer That Is Killing Album Music.
David on 12/4/2009 at 19:12
What is the enqueue function? I'm not familiar with it, but it sounds a bit like iTunes DJ.
henke on 12/4/2009 at 19:17
dethtoll: what? People have been making their own mixtapes since the invention of... tapes! It hasn't killed albums yet.
David: enque in WinAmp lets you select which song to play next by selecting it and pressing Q. I'm not familiar with the iTunes DJ, will look it up.
David on 12/4/2009 at 19:21
Oh right, that's one of things iTunes DJ does, although not its main function.
iTunes DJ main function is to basically select X amount of songs (which you can add to) and lets people with iPhones / iPod Touches vote songs in the playlist up and down as well as requesting songs from your library.
Kolya on 12/4/2009 at 19:31
Freebird!
RavynousHunter on 12/4/2009 at 20:05
On the subject of phone applications (I fucking refuse to use the bastardized version of that word), most modern phones support at least Java, so developing applications for them is, or should be, fairly simple. Getting them on your phone, however, is most likely a totally different ordeal altogether.
Also, there are a few phones out there (don't recall which ones specifically) that come with native .Net support, so if you don't want to use Java (which I totally understand), you can grab one of those phones and use C# to make your little applications, games, porn viewers, et cetera.
mazzortock on 14/4/2009 at 13:20
I totally
HATE Apple products, so for me it's a totally nonsense to hope a Thief conversion for a
Locked and Jailed Fashion Consumistic and super hyped Gadget with multibillion marketing mass-campaign.
My phone now is: (
http://www.openmoko.com) www.openmoko.com :)
I hope, however, to easily play Thief series on an open-platform, like the various Linux Box, but also with Wine is already not so easy :(
Matthew on 15/4/2009 at 11:46
I used to use the Sony Ericsson P-series phones, from P800 up to P990. That last iteration was such an utterly shambolic mess that it put me off getting another SE phone ever again. It was slow, it was crippled and the fucking web browser couldn't even handle cookies properly.
I bought my iPhone on launch day after going down to see what the fuss was about; my first non-iPod Apple product, but probably not my last. It lets me do what I want to do easily and quickly. I want to check my email, surf the internet, read e-books, send texts and, y'know, call people. These things it does and that's all I need it to do. Of course, I was already an O2 customer so the restriction to that network didn't concern me at all. Other apps are useful but not necessary to my enjoyment of it as a phone.
iTunes is fine, it's not the greatest piece of software I've ever used but all I want is to manage the songs on my house's three iPods plus buy ridiculous amounts of crap from the iTunes Store, so again it does what I want it to do.
I'm not going to claim that the iPhone is perfect, far from it, but to dismiss it casually as mazzortock has just done (at least, I think he did) is pretty short-sighted too.
I will admit that for the first few weeks of its life having people approach me on the street to ask about it did make me feel a bit smug.
Ulukai on 15/4/2009 at 15:22
You fatties had to go and start this when I was away.
Love my iPhone, for all the right reasons. If your reason has the word "fashionista" in it, I'm not in your camp and I feel the need to ignore your dudes.
Hate iTunes, it feels so bloated.
Hate mates discussing Nokia firmware revisions. In nightclubs :p
But hey, each to their own.
Daemonwings on 15/4/2009 at 19:28
Love my iPhone for the times I'm out and my hubby says "if we only had the phone number for someplace or where's the closest whatever store" and I go online or on the (google) map app and find what we need.
The whole no Flash or JAVA thing pisses me off.
iTunes- yeah, 'bloated' is the right word...
