Many complaints here and there, just like one expects it from Apple product releases. Many still don’t get it that Apple never releases the perfect product (first, that would take too long to develop and second, they couldn’t sell anything thereafter…). Still, interestingly many expect them to. So at work we got to discuss about Fitt’s law and the button layout at the bottom of the screen – if other phones ever would get so far to have these problems. At another instance a developer described the usability problems of the phone as follows: a) There is the tactile problem of onscreen buttons and b) I hate iTunes. While the first point has some meat but is not as simple is the second just a great example of the danger of semi-knowlege and half-baked analyses.
Similar discussions have gone on over the whole net mostly touching following issues:
While I would first of all say that the major reply on these points is that it is revision one and the following revisions will not only be better but also hopefully less US-oriented (looking at 3G and SMS). For the rest there is this nice summary by Rui Carmo, a Mac enthusiast and Telco specialist.
The only thing I should add here is that Apple always had and always will be restrictive with their systems. Why? because then they can control their masterpiece. As Steve said again, they realised that they have to make it themselves to fully satisfy their expectations. That’s the Apple way. Maybe because of Steve’s megalomaniac thinking or maybe just because 99.9% of the other businesses are nor perfectionistic enough. I thend to believe in the latter reason and do hail their decision to control things tightly as long as I can do the things I care about, which so far always worked rather well. Of course there is always these few annoyances that Apple things have – gotta have – but I fully prefer them to the other open systems that just have open ends everywhere. And the positive media echo on the iPhone seems to agree with me here.
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