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The problem with ssh on iOS and then especially iPhone is the size of the screen. When I'm eg. connect to irssi I can maybe see one line of previous conversations.

And regarding 'Prompt', I dont see how Panic has made something 'new' here. There are several ssh clients with favorites, shortcuts and nice designs. Some are even free.

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The SSH clients I've used on iOS - iTerm, iSSH - have been decent but unpolished. This one feels a lot more usable thus far.

Agree, but iSSH is also crammed with helpful features like public key authentication. Prompt is going to have to match those to become a favorite of the hacker crowd.

Prompt does have public key authentication.

It wasn't clear to me how fully supported this is. Lots of people have had issues with this, see the comments: http://www.panic.com/blog/2011/04/introducing-prompt-ssh-for...

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