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Originally Posted by Stumptown
Now that I see that FileMaker is indeed making a Bento for iPad (how could they not, I mean, really) I'm starting to think I do need this thing. For years I've wanted something small that would sit in the kitchen that I could read my recipe database and shopping list off of (which are hosted on a desktop downstairs). OK, that's a lot to spend on a glorified post-it note on the fridge, but these things are important to me in a really petty, bourgeois way.
And if I can play Civ on it, too? Well, sign me up. But I can wait until they work out the inevitable kinks in the first hardware version.
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I too tried to use Bento for recipes, and for guitar tabs, with the MP3 track embedded in the record. For recipes, it ended up being better to just use Pages on the iPad, and the guitar tab DB didn't work either because it wouldn't include the MP3 in the database during the import from the Mac.
Bento is awful. There is no reason to recommend it. Seriously. It's not even a relational DB. Unless its improved dramatically in recent times on the iPad, you can't even customize the layout for DB's displayed on the iPad.
They are also a company that loooves to charge upgrades for each version on the desktop, when really they are fixing the stuff that didn't work in the previous version, or adding stuff that should have been in there from day 1.
Oh, and should we talk about the crippling data loss bug associated with date handling in the earlier versions? Databasing is the one app where data loss is really not acceptable.
If you are thinking Bento is the Mac equivalent of Access, it's not. Not even close.
I really wonder what shills they got to write the reviews of the app on the iTunes store.