Introducing Prompt. Nice SSH for iOS.
So, as a UNIX hacker, here's what I don't get about the iOS community.  There is way too much excitement over the simplest things ever.  Let's break down some of the copy for this app:<p><i>Prompt is a clean, crisp, and cheerful SSH client</i><p>What does that mean?  What does a clean ssh client do; not commit any protocol violations?  What is crisp?  When you bite into it, it's like a ripe apple?  What does cheerful mean?  Is the ssh client really happy that it can make a TCP connection to the intarwebs, especially for me?<p>What does this sentence mean to someone that wants to ssh from their phone?<p><i>it helps you when you need it, and stays out of your way when you don’t</i><p>So when I want to be sshing, I can run it, and when I don't want to be sshing, I don't have to run it?  Splendid.  It works like every other computer program ever made.<p><i>Perfect for system administrators, web developers, movie-style hackers (“Let me just TCP/IP into the UNIX port!”), or any person who needs to connect remotely and type some magic.</i><p>So I googled for "ssh client", found your page, and you're telling me who uses ssh clients.  How would you get to this page without knowing what ssh is, and how would you know what ssh is without needing to use it?<p>Anyway, a lot of happy-sounding words for ... a program that decrypts text from the Internet and writes it to the screen.