"Steven Schveighoffer" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > On Thu, 02 Sep 2010 01:53:41 -0400, Nick Sabalausky <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> The pre-release iterations are completely irrelevant. If the end result >> is >> something with nearly-zero tactile feedback, super-ultra-hyperly-modal >> interface, and can't be turned off with the "power" button, but only by >> holding "Up" for five seconds, or has tiny ui elements that can't be >> accessed with a stylus or fingernail but is far too small to do reliably >> with a finger, or is a closed-locked-down-platform, or is branded as >> being a >> PDA-like device but still doesn't support something as basic as >> copy-paste >> that PalmOS devices already had nearly ten years prior even in smartphone >> form (Handspring Treo), then yes, the polish is crap no matter how much >> crappier the early iterations were. Apple's "polish" exists as nothing >> more >> than aesthetic-oriented graphic design, and it fools most people. > > Love my iPhone. Love it. My last two phones were a Palm Treo and a > Samsung touch-screen (w/stylus) smartphone with Windows mobile 6. They > are absolute garbage compared to this. Granted, I started with the 3gs, > and upgraded to iOS4 about a month after I got it, so my phone is the > result of 3 years of polish, but I feel apple has the right focus for it. > > iPhone is hands down the best phone I've ever used. I thought when I got > it, I would have a hard time accessing small things like the on-screen > keyboard keys, but I'm surprised at how accurate I am with it, even after > only having it for a few months. I regularly go to webnews on digitalmars > and can click the minuscule links pretty accurately. > > You can not like them if you want, you are entitled to your opinion, but > it seems like you have a very negative view of almost everything :) I bet > your glass is half empty, huh... >
I'm a "technical-ist": The glass is half-empty and half-full at the same time. Problem is, most glasses I've seen are only a quarter full and with overly-sweetened content (or three-quarters empty if you prefer ;) ). I just have standards. A. Search "you're holding it wrong". B. Closed platforms are evil (not to be confused with closed source). C. Gatekeeping is evil. See also http://www.paulgraham.com/apple.html D. Service provider lock-in is evil. My phone works with *any* service provider (and didn't become uselessly obsolete after a year or two): http://www.uniden.com/products/productdetail.cfm?product=EXAI398 And I really do like this phone a lot. E. A die-hard Apple fan I know recently showed me his beloved iPad. Accurately setting the text-cursor was nearly impossible. But that would have been an incredibly simple fix: Use a screen that worked with a stylus or fingernail. There's millions of them out there. Even if that would have prevented multi-touch (and I don't know that it would or would not have), after using the multi-touch, I felt it added no real value other than a "gee-whiz" gimmick factor. Stylus/fingernail support would have added at least some real value. F. Like all Apple software, the software on the iPad/iPhone are appallingly slim on settings/options. G. A *phone* without tactile dial buttons is just plain wrong. What is it with Apple's long-standing war against tactile feedback? It detracts from usability and the only thing it adds is high-tech-gee-whiz-gimmick. H. What's there to protect the highly-prominent screen? I. I don't give a crap how thin they can make it. But Apple seems to think I should care. Heck, I don't want to spend hundreds of dollars on something that I'll constantly feel I'm about to accidentally snap in half. But that's exactly how I felt with the iPad. That's a lot of issues for something that's supposedly well-polished.
