"Nick Sabalausky" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > "Steven Schveighoffer" <[email protected]> wrote in message > news:[email protected]... >> >> 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. >
J. What happens when the battery gets old and won't hold a charge?
