Rick Bilonick wrote: > I could not agree more! I wouldn't buy a car from a manufacturer that > forced me to buy batteries, tires, service, etc. from it. Actually, the Apple app store is full of software from a variety of sources -- many free, many not. Like Maemo, it's a central clearing house for software that is deemed suitable for the device of interest. For example, (and one of my peeves about the n800), the App Store has a program/service called Epocrates for medical folks to use to check on drugs, interactions and more. There's a free download for the Ipod Touch, as well as a paid advanced service/program from the same folks. The same software is available for Blackberries and several other internet phone devices. However, there has NOT been a port to the n8x0 series so far as I can tell. This software is self-contained so it works with and without wifi connection. You can get a wifi Epocrates on the n800 in the browser, but you can't use it off the net as the data is not resident on the device -- at least so far as I can determine. Bottomline, you can yell and scream all you want about open source 'free' software. However, there is something to be said for the increased diversity of having both. Always, Fred C _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
