Comments on: Bento goes 1.0 http://theappleblog.com/2008/01/09/bento-goes-10/ TheAppleBlog, published by and for the day-to-day Apple user, is a prominent source for news, reviews, walkthroughs, and real life application of all Apple products. Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:13:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: boB Rudis http://theappleblog.com/2008/01/09/bento-goes-10/#comment-113335 boB Rudis Wed, 09 Jan 2008 18:14:31 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2008/01/09/bento-goes-10/#comment-113335 After grabbing the try-n-buy I was about to wail on Apple. No Web integration. No import of Nike+iPod data into the exercise log. No XML export. No "plain" theme... No über-cool .Mac support. Then, I realized... It's a $50 app from Apple with a very specific audience in mind (which I am not a part of). So much for our hopes of iStore (roll-your-own iWork DB name). If you tried Bento, did it come across as "feeling" like a FileMaker app with some re-used Leopard/OS X eye candy? After grabbing the try-n-buy I was about to wail on Apple. No Web integration. No import of Nike+iPod data into the exercise log. No XML export. No “plain” theme… No über-cool .Mac support.

Then, I realized… It’s a $50 app from Apple with a very specific audience in mind (which I am not a part of). So much for our hopes of iStore (roll-your-own iWork DB name).

If you tried Bento, did it come across as “feeling” like a FileMaker app with some re-used Leopard/OS X eye candy?

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