Acrobat Reader 8 loads reasonably quickly on my old 800MHz box. QuickTime, on the other hand, is a useless waste of space (I don't even use it on my Mac—it's ugly as heck and is mostly useless, just a big ad for "Go Pro!"). iTunes is pretty good on OS X, but it sucks on PCs...
... I hope developers don't have to pay to gain access to this trust system. I don't have an iPhone/iTouch yet, but if developers have to pay to make software that works on the iPhone and variants, they may well decide to pass the cost along to the end-users—and (F|f)ree software is a selling point for mobile devices as far as I'm concerned.
I've got a Windows Mobile smartphone, and, while there is plenty of for-pay software (my phone came with a built-in Handango catalog), there's also plenty of freeware software available. WM6 warns you that whatever application you're trying to install isn't trusted and asks you if you really want to install it, but it doesn't completely lock untrusted applications out. (Think Cancel or Allow...) Annoying it may be, but it's better than total lockout. I wonder if Apple will do something similar?
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Acrobat Reader 8 loads reasonably quickly on my old 800MHz box. QuickTime, on the other hand, is a useless waste of space (I don't even use it on my Mac—it's ugly as heck and is mostly useless, just a big ad for "Go Pro!"). iTunes is pretty good on OS X, but it sucks on PCs...
But nothing's worse than Java.
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... I hope developers don't have to pay to gain access to this trust system. I don't have an iPhone/iTouch yet, but if developers have to pay to make software that works on the iPhone and variants, they may well decide to pass the cost along to the end-users—and (F|f)ree software is a selling point for mobile devices as far as I'm concerned.
I've got a Windows Mobile smartphone, and, while there is plenty of for-pay software (my phone came with a built-in Handango catalog), there's also plenty of freeware software available. WM6 warns you that whatever application you're trying to install isn't trusted and asks you if you really want to install it, but it doesn't completely lock untrusted applications out. (Think Cancel or Allow...) Annoying it may be, but it's better than total lockout. I wonder if Apple will do something similar?