January 2, 2008 at 14:34Why I don't like the iPhone
While in Silicon Valley, I went to the Apple store at University Ave - this is the store where Steve Jobs gets caught when the company releases a new product. He held the iPhone in his hands and became ill. He was ill for 2 weeks, then he went to Cupertino to the headquarters of the company and in the main store bought two tubes - for himself and his wife.
He arrived in Kiev, they unlocked them very quickly and easily (I managed to get version 1.1.1) and for a week I just sang songs. Why? And here's why:
- after absolutely wooden communicators on WM, the interface was simply pleasing. There can be no objection. Apple, as always, was not up to the mark, but simply soared in the sky with a huge margin from competitors.
- music. everything is very compact. The device ate 4G of my favorite songs and everything fell into place.
- I was very pleased with the integrated YouTube
- the virtual keyboard was not very convenient, but nevertheless very competent. after a week there were no problems
- Safari. I was not ready for this. I did not see a more convenient tool on handhelds. This is a complete Web.
- multi-touch screen. I want to highlight this in a separate paragraph. The thing is really revolutionary.
- on trips, maps from Google are really not just the right thing, but irreplaceable.
- the battery lasted for a working day (!!!), I haven’t had this before.
And a week later, I began to feel sad. I use the phone for work and I immediately had problems using the tools that I'm used to:
- it turned out to be very painful without the ability to synchronize tasks with Outlook - not everything can be hammered into the calendar in a convenient form
- the inability to synchronize mail in the inbox with the computer. You can work only with the server.
- The same applies to notes to which I'm used to.
- the impossibility of comparing a certain number with a name from a notebook (the operator gives the number without +, and the phone has all the numbers in the international format).
- lack of search in the notebook. When 2000 contacts are very difficult to browse on a phone.
- the first hundred on working with SMS was first killed by a cool dialog interface, but then came the understanding of the inconvenience when you can not delete a separate SMS.
- skype, skype. It was tough. If the ICQ client was some kind of no (most likely none), then with Skype it was sad.
- lack of voice recorder.
- Suddenly it turned out that you can’t stick my favorite headphones into it.
Some of the problems were solved using third-party applications, but the key ones remained unresolved.
The first thought was - to return his Golden Fish , but could not. WM turned out to be just non-usable, the stylus seemed just a rudiment. I couldn’t.
With all due respect to Jobs personally, to Apple and all the products that it releases, the iPhone, as a tool for business, turned out to be a very weak product.
Two more problems that turned out to be quality. Of the two phones, two were defective. My problem was with one of the speakers (it just didn’t work), and the sensor on my wife’s phone didn’t work well, it detects that the phone is near the ear and regularly switches to speakerphone when you touch your cheek.
In fairness, I’ll say that just for the wife the phone turned out to be very convenient, useful and she uses it with great pleasure.
I will wait for the device with Android (maybe everything will be right there), although I have no confidence that someone will be able to beat the iPhone for usability. Rather, I have confidence that they will not.
He arrived in Kiev, they unlocked them very quickly and easily (I managed to get version 1.1.1) and for a week I just sang songs. Why? And here's why:
- after absolutely wooden communicators on WM, the interface was simply pleasing. There can be no objection. Apple, as always, was not up to the mark, but simply soared in the sky with a huge margin from competitors.
- music. everything is very compact. The device ate 4G of my favorite songs and everything fell into place.
- I was very pleased with the integrated YouTube
- the virtual keyboard was not very convenient, but nevertheless very competent. after a week there were no problems
- Safari. I was not ready for this. I did not see a more convenient tool on handhelds. This is a complete Web.
- multi-touch screen. I want to highlight this in a separate paragraph. The thing is really revolutionary.
- on trips, maps from Google are really not just the right thing, but irreplaceable.
- the battery lasted for a working day (!!!), I haven’t had this before.
And a week later, I began to feel sad. I use the phone for work and I immediately had problems using the tools that I'm used to:
- it turned out to be very painful without the ability to synchronize tasks with Outlook - not everything can be hammered into the calendar in a convenient form
- the inability to synchronize mail in the inbox with the computer. You can work only with the server.
- The same applies to notes to which I'm used to.
- the impossibility of comparing a certain number with a name from a notebook (the operator gives the number without +, and the phone has all the numbers in the international format).
- lack of search in the notebook. When 2000 contacts are very difficult to browse on a phone.
- the first hundred on working with SMS was first killed by a cool dialog interface, but then came the understanding of the inconvenience when you can not delete a separate SMS.
- skype, skype. It was tough. If the ICQ client was some kind of no (most likely none), then with Skype it was sad.
- lack of voice recorder.
- Suddenly it turned out that you can’t stick my favorite headphones into it.
Some of the problems were solved using third-party applications, but the key ones remained unresolved.
The first thought was - to return his Golden Fish , but could not. WM turned out to be just non-usable, the stylus seemed just a rudiment. I couldn’t.
With all due respect to Jobs personally, to Apple and all the products that it releases, the iPhone, as a tool for business, turned out to be a very weak product.
Two more problems that turned out to be quality. Of the two phones, two were defective. My problem was with one of the speakers (it just didn’t work), and the sensor on my wife’s phone didn’t work well, it detects that the phone is near the ear and regularly switches to speakerphone when you touch your cheek.
In fairness, I’ll say that just for the wife the phone turned out to be very convenient, useful and she uses it with great pleasure.
I will wait for the device with Android (maybe everything will be right there), although I have no confidence that someone will be able to beat the iPhone for usability. Rather, I have confidence that they will not.