My iPhone 3.0 Love and Hate: One Day Later

Yesterday, the iPhone 3.0 update went live. As with previous updates, I was planning on waiting until the jailbreak was out in order to upgrade. While at the 140 Characters Conference, I realized I wasn't going to be able to wait. In the hours leading up to the launch, I was eagerly awaiting the glory of spotlight search and the archaic additions of MMS and Copy/Paste. I couldn't bring myself to wait until friday, so I installed the update as soon as it went live. Long story short: I miss my jailbreak apps. So dearly.

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Found: iPhone 3.0 Tweaks

Apple is touting a bunch of great new features, and it's true. There's a lot of great stuff in the new OS 3.0 update. There's also a lot of stuff missing for 3G owners like myself like Voice Control, and Video capabilities. But Apple didn't, and can't really be expected to, make any mention of the smaller tweaks that have been stealthily slipped into the system.

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Tweetdeck For iPhone: First Impressions

So, Tweetdeck for iPhone dropped today. I took a few minutes to check out the app and compare it to my other favorite iPhone apps. Some great great great cool features in Tweetdeck really set is aside form the other apps on the iPhone:

• Columns
• Desktop app sync
• 'Quick Follow' feature

These are just some of the features, but it's also lacking many of the robust features I love about Twittelator Pro, or some of the speed I love about Tweetie. That doesn't mean it's bad, it's just got a different market than the other two. I'm more than happy to keep using Tweetdeck for iPhone. It's a beauty, and it feels very stable. I haven't had any crashes yet which is common for a first submission, freshly installed.

I don't have a problem with the feature set, per se. But, I just wish someone would develop an app that can do all the things I need so I don't need to have 3 apps on my phone. Even just to have the ability to toggle simple things on and off would be nice.

For example, Tweetie uploads photos to the service first and then tweets the photo as opposed to waiting for the tweet to be written then actually posting through the TwitPic service. What ends up happening then is you've got a link to a TwitPic photo with no caption! That's important to me! Would that be so hard to implement?

All in all, Tweetdeck has been the most popular desktop client for some time now, and if that fan base carries over into the iPhone user community, we've got a real rumble on our hands.