On Aug 27, 2012, at 6:36 PM, Bruce Walker wrote: > And this is because before the iPhone, every single cellphone out > there was an utter piece of junk.
This is completely untrue. > Terrible UI's; hard to sync to > address books; dozens of models from each manufacturer, all different > in pointless ways. The Blackberrys could at least access email, but > they had a UI straight out of the line-oriented past. I had a succession of palm based smartphones, starting with IIRC the Kyocera 6135. Each one better than the last. The biggest problem I had with my last treo was that my eyes were getting weak and the display, being many years old, was too small for my aging eyes to read the text when the font was small enough to put sufficient amounts on it. > > Apple presented a new thing: a general purpose computer with a phone > builtin. It had an elegant and well considered UI that folks could > actually use. They re-thought and redefined the entire product > category. I'm sorry but for me the iPhone user interface is an unusable piece of crap, only slightly better than the original macintosh. When the iPhone came out it was simply not an option because there was no way that I'd switch to AT&T cell service. When the iPad Touch came out, I really wanted to like it. There were a lot of really cool things about that piece of shiny. Unfortunately the user interface was completely unusable. I played with friend's iPhones and iPad touches and tried to do things with them, and they simply didn't work. The original Motorola Droid was the first smartphone to give me what I wanted in a smart phone. Unfortunately, the current iteration of the Droid does not have a user replaceable battery, or I would have one of those rather than the Galaxy S3 I recently bought. I will agree that the goatse zoom is a clever idea, but being software should not be patentable. Even if goatse zoom were taken off my S3, that would not make it noticeably, if at all less usable. Patenting round corners is patently ridiculous. I'd actually rather my phone didn't have quite so round sides as that makes it a lot harder to use the bubble level software. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
