Shopping at AppStore

Dalam rangka 'mempensiunkan' Palm gue, beberapa software Palm sudah mendapatkan penggantinya di iPhone/iPod Touch. Salah satunya adalah Splash Money.

Jika sebelumnya gue dapatkan software tersebut dengan cara 'haram', maka kali ini gue harus dapatkan dengan cara halal. Pertimbangannya : it's a great software for me, murah (US$ 9.99) dan sekedar memberi support kepada developer software AppStore. Pertimbangan lainnya adalah bahwa gue yakin software ini punya umur yang panjang seperti update version in the next future. Beli software sama dengan beli investasi. Nggak seperti beberapa software Palm yang gue beli, berhenti ngga ada kabar dan support (contoh : HandyFinance) *geram*

Puchasing SplashMoney was a snap. Bisa dilakukan di desktop (iTunes Store) atau AppStore di iPod Touch/iPhone. Setelah purchased dan downloaded, aplikasi nongol di Application tab saat iPod Touch/iPhone tersambung ke Mac. After that, sync and it's there, nongol di iPod Touch/iPhone siap digunakan. Best of all, gue bisa install aplikasi yang gue purchase ke multiple device. Jadi kalau nanti punya iPhone 3G (AAMMIINNNNN!! :D ), gue ngga perlu beli lagi untuk software yang sama.



Setelah belanja, gue dikirimin receipt dari iTunes Store via email. Info belanja ini juga bisa dilihat di Account page di iTunes Store. Yang menarik, untuk support service diurus oleh www.apple.com/uk. Apakah ini karena account dari Indonesia dibawah administrasi Apple UK? Sementara account .Mac (sekarang MobileMe) gue berada dalam naungan Apple Singapura. Mungkin karena Singapura bekas jajahan UK? huekekekekek.. kalleeeeee ajjaaa...

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Exodus : Palm to iPhone

Been attracted by Newton for years. Been using PalmOS for almost 8 years. And now, iPhone is here, with thousand promising applications. I think, the next era of Apple PDA is coming. And it's not just PDA, but Smartphone.

Should I abandon my Palm Clie PEG UX50 -- keep it in the drawer and sell it at eBay 20 years later, it may worth selling at million -- and grab the iPhone totally, for good?

In my Palm, I always using three main applications for years :
- ThoughtManager : thought & idea records
- DayNotez : personal journal
- SplashMoney : financial records

If I jump to the iPhone, I have to migrate these apps and the datas from the Palm. At least one apps available for iPhone : SplashMoney. It's in the AppStore and the desktop apps will be coming soon -- sync with Mac and iPhone/iPod Touch. So I don't have to migrate one by one for the finance data. Just sync my Palm, Mac, iPhone and it's there.

But the other two apps -- the developers have not updated their software since 2 - 3 years ago :P -- currently has no sign of coming at the AppStore in the future. It seems that I have to convert the datas for the iPhone apps *sigh*

In the mean time, maybe it's better for me to wait. And give my Palm another chance to live.. a bit longer :)