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Appletell reviews MyDecider for iPhone, iPod touch

The idea behind this application for the iPhone or iPod Touch is to actually help you make a decision. This is not a game or an attempt and a magic 8 ball kind of thing, this is an actual productivity decision maker. I don’t think I want a phone to make decisions for me, but that is what the developer is trying to accomplish here. What Mydecider does is take a set of criteria you designate and rate the importance to you and calculates a decision based on the input. Again, that is something I would not want my phone to do for me.

Stephen Fry loves his iPhones (that’s plural)

Stephen Fry is an actor (perhaps best known to Americans for his roles in the Blackadder series), writer, gadget lover, and quite possibly the most hard-core Apple lover you or I have ever seen. Famously claiming that he “never met a smartphone (he) didn’t buy,” he now owns multiple iPhones which he carries around with him to fill different purposes: “mad hacking, jailbreaking and frigging about with, another as a pedometer, another for music, another as a – guess what ? – phone.”

In an extensive post where he talks about the iPhone—covering the market before it was released, the pre-release backlash (pre-lash?) from naysayers who said Apple was foolish to enter the cell phone market, and finally Apple’s success—Fry lays out his wishlist for improvements: all of which are common calls (cut ‘n’ paste, Flash support), but all of which aim to make the iPhone more flexible to the need