Steven,
what do you want? We can't go back and undo the decision they made, even if we might be adamant that it was the wrong one. My guess is that Ken's June 2010 estimate reflects expected intensive work on the app, not just changing a few manifest constants and recompiling sometime in late May.
I also own just about everything they make, though I haven't pulled the trigger yet on the iPad apps, and like with you, OmniFocus is the app that gets the lion's share of the usage. For me, the iPhone app running on the iPad gets me greater performance (more of a big deal for me, given that my database has thousands of actions in it, and my 2G iPod is substantially slower than your 3GS iPhone). It is yet another device on which I can interact with my data, which is helpful because there are two other people competing with me for use of those devices. It isn't going to be a life-changer the way getting the iPhone/iPod app was a year ago, when I was balancing my MacBook in shopping carts and lugging it around every time I left the house.
I am optimistic that OF built for the iPad will be a very fine tool. It goes without saying that I want it last week. Part of me thinks that maybe it is a good thing that they got their iPad feet wet with two apps that aren't so important to me, rather than having done a crash effort on OF and ending up with something I would feel obligated to buy, even though it might not be ready for prime time. Of course, we might end up with substantially the same experience, just 3 months later! Let's hope not.
We can't go back and make OF available for the iPad last week. We've got Ken's prediction of a native version in June. I'm assuming that's a full-featured iPad app, not just the current iPhone app using the larger screen at appropriate resolution. If it is the full-featured version, it seems unlikely to me that we could realistically hope to see it any sooner, no matter how heart-felt the desire. That seems to leave a universal version of the current app that can make full use of the screen as the only bone that could be thrown our way, and presumably it pushes the "real" iPad app out a bit. Would the stopgap app be of appreciable value to you? Is there some other route from where we stand today toward you being happy that I haven't mentioned? I know I would install and use such a stopgap app (might even pay some money for it, if the wait for the real thing looked long enough), but I don't have a good feel for how much of a delay I'd be willing to accept in exchange.
Short version: what's done is done, is there anything they might do to improve the situation for you, other than giving you a chance to vent your frustration? :)
what do you want? We can't go back and undo the decision they made, even if we might be adamant that it was the wrong one. My guess is that Ken's June 2010 estimate reflects expected intensive work on the app, not just changing a few manifest constants and recompiling sometime in late May.
I also own just about everything they make, though I haven't pulled the trigger yet on the iPad apps, and like with you, OmniFocus is the app that gets the lion's share of the usage. For me, the iPhone app running on the iPad gets me greater performance (more of a big deal for me, given that my database has thousands of actions in it, and my 2G iPod is substantially slower than your 3GS iPhone). It is yet another device on which I can interact with my data, which is helpful because there are two other people competing with me for use of those devices. It isn't going to be a life-changer the way getting the iPhone/iPod app was a year ago, when I was balancing my MacBook in shopping carts and lugging it around every time I left the house.
I am optimistic that OF built for the iPad will be a very fine tool. It goes without saying that I want it last week. Part of me thinks that maybe it is a good thing that they got their iPad feet wet with two apps that aren't so important to me, rather than having done a crash effort on OF and ending up with something I would feel obligated to buy, even though it might not be ready for prime time. Of course, we might end up with substantially the same experience, just 3 months later! Let's hope not.
We can't go back and make OF available for the iPad last week. We've got Ken's prediction of a native version in June. I'm assuming that's a full-featured iPad app, not just the current iPhone app using the larger screen at appropriate resolution. If it is the full-featured version, it seems unlikely to me that we could realistically hope to see it any sooner, no matter how heart-felt the desire. That seems to leave a universal version of the current app that can make full use of the screen as the only bone that could be thrown our way, and presumably it pushes the "real" iPad app out a bit. Would the stopgap app be of appreciable value to you? Is there some other route from where we stand today toward you being happy that I haven't mentioned? I know I would install and use such a stopgap app (might even pay some money for it, if the wait for the real thing looked long enough), but I don't have a good feel for how much of a delay I'd be willing to accept in exchange.
Short version: what's done is done, is there anything they might do to improve the situation for you, other than giving you a chance to vent your frustration? :)