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Originally Posted by Sven
And if we want to adopt the old Apple philosophy, if we don't have it, you probably don't really need it.
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Have to disagree there a bit, based on a bunch of years of browsing for and testing a LOT of WM apps. I'd say it's closer to 'If you don't need it, we probably have an app for it anyway... in fact probably a dozen variations on what you don't really need.' There are loads of programs for WM devices which perform perfectly meaningless functions, such as the many thousands of wallpaper 'apps' which are really nothing more than sets of background imagery coupled to font scaling and such. The way so many of these are broken and get in the way of proper functionality doesn't help matters. Then there are the thousands of games, most of which hardly worthy of being called games as they are close to unplayable. And so-called 'PIM replacements' which do no task better than slowing down access to PIM data - though there are certainly a few which enhance it, and those tend to be the survivors.
Okay, so maybe I'm being overly critical of the commercials. Not being a TV viewer makes me more than a little resistant to commercials generally. I've tried watching the Superbowl commercials to see what's so dang funny about them, but always quit after a few because there's a sense of being insulted by the corporate machinery.