In Reply to: As a fomer Palm Treo user... posted by Ivan303 on June 3, 2017 at 10:26:48:
I went from paper based Daytimer organizer in a binder to HP 200LX to Palm to Blackberry to iPhone. There are tools available to transfer contacts, email, calendar along the way. Everything was successfully transitioned to my iPhone 4S years ago. I'm on iPhone 6S today.
I have little need for 'file handling' as I don't use my iPhone as a "PC" substitute. However, it does natively handle PDF, Word docs, PowerPoints, Excel spreadsheets, photos, etc. And I have access to any or all of my stuff via iCloud shared seamlessly between our home computers, iPads, iPods, wife's Apple Watch, and our two iPhones.
No complaints! But you do have to take a little time to 'learn it' vs throwing up your arms and clinging to the old 'file handling' ways. ;-)
The Apple environment and ecosytem just works for us.
P.S. I grew up on MS-DOS, Windows, and the "PC" and I couldn't be happier making the move in another direction almost a decade ago.
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Follow Ups
- RE: As a fomer Palm Treo user... - AbeCollins 12:16:55 06/03/17 (31)
- But the iPhone is still an iPod with a phone it it... - Ivan303 14:59:13 06/03/17 (30)
- Excellent idea ! - AbeCollins 03:31:47 06/04/17 (29)
- Everyone other than Apple (including me)... - Ivan303 07:10:58 06/04/17 (28)
- "What do engineers know? " - E-Stat 14:57:32 06/04/17 (27)
- RE: "I have zero need for my phone to be a file management device." - Ivan303 06:58:50 06/05/17 (11)
- RE: "I have zero need for my phone to be a file management device." - double28 16:40:59 06/05/17 (10)
- Me? - Ivan303 17:36:49 06/05/17 (9)
- RE: Me? - bullethead 19:04:41 06/05/17 (8)
- RE: "asking me to give you my Harbeths"... - Ivan303 19:09:50 06/05/17 (7)
- not yet - bullethead 19:11:59 06/05/17 (6)
- I can say that the RaspberryPi/HiFi Berry Digi+ Pro... - Ivan303 19:55:15 06/05/17 (5)
- RE: I can say that the RaspberryPi/HiFi Berry Digi+ Pro... - bullethead 20:16:07 06/05/17 (4)
- RE:" Shpongle. Tales from the Inexpressible." - Ivan303 18:35:59 06/06/17 (3)
- ifi power - bullethead 06:37:47 06/07/17 (2)
- RE: "the hacked up RPi sounds a tad bit better".. - Ivan303 12:25:16 06/07/17 (1)
- RE: "the hacked up RPi sounds a tad bit better".. - bullethead 12:27:27 06/07/17 (0)
- "I have zero need for my phone to be a file management device."...... - Cut-Throat 04:24:05 06/05/17 (14)
- Another curious response! - E-Stat 05:47:20 06/05/17 (13)
- And it that's not enough (and Apple must not think that it is)... - Ivan303 13:23:04 06/05/17 (12)
- Anything to sell more phones - E-Stat 05:44:32 06/06/17 (7)
- Doubt this one is about 'more' phones.... - Ivan303 06:34:52 06/06/17 (6)
- If you need - E-Stat 07:50:35 06/06/17 (5)
- RE: If you need - Ivan303 08:09:20 06/06/17 (4)
- Three martini lunch? - E-Stat 08:54:05 06/06/17 (3)
- I'm not sure why but.... - AbeCollins 22:12:37 06/06/17 (2)
- RE: I'm not sure why but.... - E-Stat 06:08:46 06/07/17 (1)
- I would never schlep.... - AbeCollins 06:23:47 06/07/17 (0)
- Hey, Even Steve Jobs was talking my language !.............. - Cut-Throat 13:46:28 06/05/17 (3)
- Yep, we be the 'pros' here... - Ivan303 15:59:37 06/05/17 (2)
- I saw that! ;-) - AbeCollins 06:34:39 06/07/17 (1)
- Moi aussi :) -nt - E-Stat 12:51:35 06/07/17 (0)