Disappointed!

I echo your sentiments Christopher. I've got issues with iphone anyway. Makes it worse when it's elevated to an exalted position by Logos. On the positive side, the web based access is really neat and I am thankful for it.  Most of the iphone users I know might as well build a shrine to theirs and hold worship services. (A little exageration of course)[8-)]

Well said Terry.  I am a Blackberry user as well Christopher, at first I also felt out of sorts over the iPhone app, but market share, market share, market share.  Logos has not walked blindly into this.  They know the numbers and the numbers are with iPhone. 

Thankfully they are indeed working away on the web interface at http://library.logos.com

It works (kinda) great on my blackberry browser - though I think it prefers column mode.  Last I checked Ive got over 800 books on the web interface, plus passage guides and bible searches.

Greek works just fine on my Blackberry Curve 8900, Hebrew leaves some to be desired. 

But all in all, just keep waiting.  Logos has said that later specialized apps may well follow after the web service is where they want it to be.

Please also be aware that the free iPhone app has been developed at quite some expense and given away completely free, as is the web interface, and chances are pretty good from my experience that other apps be they BB or android or winmo will also be feature rich.

Just hold on, they can't do everything at once.  [:)]

I do agree with the patience thing Thomas but I have to disagree on the market share theory.  While I certainly don't know this as fact, it appears Logos may have simply taken a chance on branding as many have in the past (Apple has done some amazing things in the rhealm of technology especially in the MP3 player market).  In reality there are far more blackberry users in the marketplace than iPhone, mostly due to the enterprise server availability for business use; not to mention the limited availablity of the iPhone due to their exclusivity with At&t (how was that put... unholy matrimony LOL!) 

Thanks for the link... I just upgraded to Logos 4 and wasn't aware of the web interface.  I'll give that a shot on my BB Storm.  God bless.

Amen!

I think the reason that Logos chose the Iphone app versus the BB is much simpliar and has to do with RIM's allowing programers to access the interface.  Apple has opened its iPhone to everyone and thier dog to make an app, RIM has not.  I'm a BB using myself, but when I found that out I have decided to make the change to iPhone.  One thing that all the controversy over the Logos 4 change has shown me is that if you are not ready to change with the times, you are going to get left behind and become obsolete.  I have a congregation full of iPhone users and I'm going to learn their language to be more affective as a minister of the Gospel to them. 

Whilst I appreciate your concern for those without high incomes, I think that's unfair, Matthew. The majority of Logos users are not "rich American kids with fancy toys". I may be rich by global standards, but not by my national ones. And I am neither American, nor a kid, nor treat Logos as a toy.

Logos have chosen to prioritise their development dollars on an OS that (according to your figures) has 90 times more users than Linux, and have recently started development on one that has five times more users. The iPhone development is done in parallel with a web-based application, which can be used anywhere there is internet access. Again, they've prioritised the device with the biggest user base. That all seems very sensible.

But more importantly, I would be fairly sure that the biggest barrier in Logos being adopted in poorer nations will not be the cost of O/S (which is often low by Western standards, particularly in countries without proper copyright laws), but the cost of the resources, and the lack of resources in non-English languages. Your frustration may be better directed at the publishers.

Jacob Hantla said:

Also, there are rumors swirling about a tmobile availability as well, since it wouldn't require any retooling of the phone's hardware (which a verizon iPhone would).

We have iPhone with the T-Mobile here in Europe already.

You might want to wait a few months before getting a iPod touch.. Apple has a Keynote set up for the end of Jan and rumors are they will be announcing an Apple Tablet with a modified iPhone/ipod touch OS. Apple has also been pushing to set up agreements with publishers for digital content. the Kindle could be in for wake up. the thing I don't like about the Kindle is that Amazon still controls the ebooks you buy and can delete them if the chose to.

Sorry Bob, I meant no harm.  I beleived that the fact that you had a ipod and that it has a big market share all by itself was way more than enough reason to start with the apple, and with a little sarchasim, I made my statement.  My main point though was that you had developed something and we can be happy for it.  However, I never once said, nor implied that "But accusing me of developing an expensive new product simply because we're suckers for Apple's marketing or because I happen to use the iPhone? That's pretty low... :-)"  Actually, just the opposite... I believe that it was/is the right platform to work with and for the very reasons that you said.  However, when you posted that you had an Iphone, it seemed that no one picked up on that.  Yet your having a Iphone would allow you to think about it much more knowlegably than some other phone that you don't own or use.  I truly believe that you totally misunderstood me, what I meant, and how I meant it.