Posts by Ari 1 53 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Nov 2009
coulda, shoulda
....bought an iPhone.
Seriously, with all the bitching Apple gets for each of their transgressions Samsung should get clobbered for this. Except not that many actually bought this device, or like it. It seems like people are putting up with these devices as some sort of ideological statement, as an anti Apple statement, or in the hope that it will get a bit more usable with future upgrades.
..I mean, you guys are just not getting it.
Apple sells relatively expensive hardware. Yes
Apple often trails others in specifications. Yes
Apples products still work more smoothly than the competitors. Yes
The iphone is no exception. I've used one, and it's.. a phone. It's also a surprisingly easy to use PDA type device with all functionality well thought out. It really perfects what Palm was doing before Palm dropped the ball. Simple, usable, powerful (in use). A windows mobile device is none of those. An android device is a few of those, but doesn't come close, yet.
I recently got to play with two models of HTC phones, one a HTC Hero, the other a HTC Magic (android OS).
Both were more powerful than the iPhone. Both had much better specs and a better camera. Both owners wanted my iPhone. The owner of the Magic had switched from a iPhone 1. He expressed his disappointment and wished he had bought an iPhone 3GS instead of the HTC unit.
That was due to little things. Clunky interface, weird and inconsistent behaviour, annoying music player behaviour and a selection of other things.
Personally I found the Magic to be nice, but unpolished. The Hero just sucked balls.
And the stupid "idiotPhone" type comments above just show a lack of understanding. Thanks to attitudes like that we still have atrocious interfaces like in The GIMP. Yes, it is powerful. Yes it is almost enough to replace photoshop. Yes it completely sucks because the developers don't think that serious work in interface and usability design matter. Unusable, but powerful, mess. Another example of "the interface is good enough for our engineers so it must be good enough for our customers" is Windows Control Panel. Doesn't matter which version, and Win7 is also included.
The reason people pay more for an Apple product is that the engineers at apple, the designers, and Jobs, are all insane on the details. These details mean that the everyday experience of using apple products is just that little less frustrating.
I used to be a PC technician and bought myself a mac to try out. I now get shudders of annoyance when I need to fix my old XP machine. XP will be replaced by some Linux distro soon. Even Ubuntu is usually more usable than XP (except when you have to compile drivers from source)
Now for a beer
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I think Britney's just a little dyslexic.
You see, she meant to say that she was celebrating St.Lucia's day http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Lucy's_Day and then went on to advertise her belief in Santa.
Which actually wouldn't be all that surprising
Mine's the one with the spell checker in the pocket
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