Less Wrong Product & Service Recommendations

lukeprog

I have often benefited from recommendations for Things I Didn't Know I Wanted.

Given that Less Wrong is a community of unusually intelligent, critical, and self-improvement-focused people, I suspect we can generate a pretty helpful thread of product recommendations — perhaps even a monthly thread of product recommendations.

Rules:

Post one product your recommend per comment, so they can be discussed and voted on independently.
Provide a link for purchasing the product.
No books, movies, TV, games, or music. (These should go in other threads, like this one or this one.)

I'll post my own recommendations to the comments section, too.

I have often benefited from recommendations for Things I Didn't Know I Wanted.

Rules:

Post one product your recommend per comment, so they can be discussed and voted on independently.
Provide a link for purchasing the product.
No books, movies, TV, games, or music. (These should go in other threads, like this one or this one.)

I'll post my own recommendations to the comments section, too.

Well, as for me, when I had a chance to hold iPhone for a few minutes, it lowered my perception of Apple from "high-quality, somewhat restrictive, expensive" to "overpriced, unpredictable quality". What their browser did with saving PDFs was one of the things.

I do use a PDA, though - n810 from Nokia (custom GNU/Linux distribution by Nokia inside), I use bluetooth integration with two different (different operators) phones, in many things PDA helps a lot - but iPhone specifically striked me as an overall poor product.

Given that Apple doesn't allow apps to fix every quirk, even "there is an app for that" doesn't help. Why would I want a device that doesn't run OpenOffice/LibreOffice?

Since OpenOffice has not been adapted and is poorly suited for touch screens, your mentioning it (twice) in a conversation about smartphones is more confusing than helpful.

Also, the n810 (which you've mentioned twice) is part of a product line that was discontinued about 2 years ago and never sold in large quantities.

(I know about OpenOffice and the n810 because I used Linux for my desktop platform for 17 years.)

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