Very nice. :)

@Andrew, it's not just common in Europe. I'm in the US, and the last company I worked for used Dynamics GP (very buggy with lots of crazy little client patches), and the company I work for now uses CRM. I have a friend that works for another company that uses a lot of CRM. That suite of applications drives me nuts.

@paul: I think what it boils down to is what makes up a "logical argument." Sometimes I read what you have to say and it seems personally reasonable and in line with what I know to be true (on things I have experience with). Sometimes I just have to shake my head, hit the downmod button, and move on. The ratio of which way I go on this has a lot do to with what I think of a poster. You might not be happy with my opinion of the majority of your posts (which is where the "shill" comment came from), but there it is. I also think a lot of the people that respond to your posts every time in a negative manner, nitpicking away at things are out of line, and I downmod that as well when I see it, if that makes you feel any better.

That was meant for Pauls comment (obviously)

@paul: I think what it boils down to is what makes up a "logical argument." Sometimes I read what you have to say and it seems personally reasonable and in line with what I know to be true (on things I have experience with). Sometimes I just have to shake my head, hit the downmod button, and move on. The ratio of which way I go on this has a lot do to with what I think of a poster. You might not be happy with my opinion of the majority of your posts (which is where the "shill" comment came from), but there it is. I also think a lot of the people that respond to your posts every time in a negative manner, nitpicking away at things are out of line, and I downmod that as well when I see it, if that makes you feel any better.

This is a very interesting article. I agree the iPhone would do well to have full multitasking. It would be a nice feature to at least be able to turn on if needed, so that you don't slow down your phone when you don't want it. For me the main reason would be for a VPN connection app, and then to be able to run other apps independantly that connect through the vpn connection. I don't know how easy that would be to do though, even if apple increased multitasking capabilities. Session based internet apps would sure be greatly improved by multitasking as well, that's for sure. Other than that, I don't mind the sort of "save state" feature that at least most new apps support. It doesn't take long to have apps open and resume to where you were, and that might actually get annoying with a bunch of apps using your memory.

As far as the email "problem", I find that if you are running on an exchange server with multiple push folders and such that email is actually a nicer experience then on winmo (getting a nice buzz on subfolders, my god that feels good), though still not as good as BB (with a BES). Overall, the iPhone does have a pretty good email client, so long as you use a Microsoft backend product (I find this extremely funny, all things considering). Sounds like other email solutions might not be done in a very friendly manner, but I personally haven't experienced most of them, so I can't speak to it.

I also think as much as Paul might shill for Apple way too much to be taken seriously most of the time, his first post on this article was pretty well reasoned. I know that some people don't like to hear "Take a laptop with you if you want to do everything involved in your work." but often times, that really is the best solution.

Anyway, for many people's purposes, this phone does all it needs to, but I do agree that it could do so much more, and hardware-wise it's built for it.

Finally, one that I might have a (small) chance of winning!

@sweet greggo: We (most people) know that apple didn't create the first pmp, but one of, if not the first MP3 PMP is almost exactly 10 years old. And the format .mp3 was not yet out at the 15 year mark, though the technology existed.

References: http://www.seattlepi.com/archives/1999/9902100013.asp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP3

Merp!

Oh yes.