From what I can gather, the biggest problems with the iPhone seem to be as follows, in order of severity: You can only use AT&T network The EDGE data network is slow The keyboard takes some time to learn Making a phone call can take more “taps” than with other phones No way to Cut, […]
Before we knew the iPhone was real, the common wisdom was that in order for Apple to make the experience something of acceptable quality, they’d have to own or at least rent the cell network. Take a look at this iPhone activation and sync video. This is clearly an Apple experience, simple, clear and elegant. […]
I spent some time today playing with the iPhone and there’s one interaction I just love. It’s that when you scroll to the edge of the web page, the iPhone allows you to drag/scroll as far as you like past the edge. It just lets you stretch right past the edge into the “grayness”, but […]
This week Apple has released a 20 minute guided tour of the iPhone that shows in great detail the new user interface. You can download the high quality version here. Apparently there are millions of people excited, even hysterical, about the iPhone’s release this Friday. I must be out of the core news/media channels, but […]
I just got the second email from Apple after signing up with them for breaking iPhone updates via email. I read the mail a little bitterly, since I felt the least they could have done was to send me an email when they had the ship date nailed down. Well, the tone of the email […]
From Apple’s Hot News web page: Apple Statement iPhone has already passed several of its required certification tests and is on schedule to ship in late June as planned. We can’t wait until customers get their hands (and fingers) on it and experience what a revolutionary and magical product it is. However, iPhone contains the […]
After reading John Siracusa’s hilarious post about WWDC Buzz Word Bingo, I got to thinking about what I’d most like to see at WWDC. Here’s my list: 1. Make it brain dead simple to write multi-threaded applications. How simple? If my application runs fast on a dual core machine, I want it to run twice […]
David Weiss 