Here’s my first round of comments on the new iPhone software:
- [Remote][remote] is what the iPod application should have been from the
start…and still isn’t.
- Since I heard about it, I thought real-time sync with MobileMe would be
what made the package worth $99 for a lot of people. Having played with it
for a few hours, I still think that, with one glaring exception — Windows.
I could sync calendars to Outlook, or I could sync them to Outlook. I was
syncing them to Outlook for about 20 minutes, and then I couldn’t stand it
anymore.
- You can only set the category of a contact when you create it, just like
before. What’s new is that you can do the same when creating an
appointment.
- There’s still no custom alert sounds (as far as I can tell), and you still
can’t set the New Mail sound, generally or per-account (or per-contact, or
per-anything else useful).
- I don’t know what your App Store is showing, but mind is showing zero
downloads for every app that I look at. Including apps that I’ve installed
(and thus obviously downloaded).
[remote]: http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=284417350&mt=8