5 Reasons Why I’m Getting Sick Of The iPhone
Post created Wednesday, January 20th, 2010 by Landon.
The iPhone is great. I’m not one to piss in cheerios, but frankly, there are some things about the iPhone that are becoming more and more irritating. Copy and Paste took 2 and a half years to be implemented, and running more than a single app is still a no-no. Apple, what are you thinking?
5. Why in gods name can’t I import and export contacts through iTunes?
No, really. I’ve had an iPhone firmware update completely nuke my contact list. After a year and a half of getting all of my business contacts organized into lists and properly tagged with company names, email addresses, and personal notes about the contact, I had everything wiped out on me. This is unacceptable. iTunes currently allows you to sync with Exchange and Google Contacts. Why the hell can’t I just throw a CSV file at it and have it properly import?
4. The keyboard is absolutely useless for anything other than quick messages
When the iPhone first demo’d way back in June 2007, everyone was so hyped up about the fact that it had no flip out keyboard. It was just a brick, everything was handled through this incredible adaptive touchscreen that could pivot and move and wow! The thing is; It’s all gone pear shaped. It’s just not intuitive at all to type with the thing. The spell checker allows you to blaze as fast as you can theoretically type, but even still you’ll have words show up that you didn’t intend to type, and god have mercy on trying to go back and edit that after the 3.0 interface changes with copy and paste, as every time you hold your finger down on the screen not only will it smudge, but now it wants you to select everything! AARAGH.
3. The app store is great, but the hardware can’t have more than a few apps installed or your iPhone will turn into an expensive, glossy paperweight
Some of things from the app store are invaluable. Epicurious, voice activated google searching, urbanspoon, facebook and tweetdeck. The problem is, if you install more than an extra ‘page’ of apps, the iPhone will slow to a crawl with even basic actions like unlocking your phone, dialing a number, or pulling up your contact list. Smartphones are almost slow by design, there’s simply too much going on within the pocket computer that is also a phone to make it as blazing fast as you want it to be, but that doesn’t excuse the fact that at a 300$ pricetag, you should be able to install all of the apps you want, without it destroying the end result; it’s a phone. It’s used for calling. If all the bells and whistles destroy that experience, it just becomes frustrating and irritating. And no, I don’t care what you say; paying another 150$ for the 3GS is not a valid rebuttle.
2. 3G is pathetic, and coverage is even worse.
This is more a slam against the unholy abomination that is AT&T, but my 3g service area is USELESS, as is the speed in which 3g actually operates. I can’t do half of the things I’d like to do (Update twitter, check emails, and update my facebook status / loopt location) unless i’m on WiFi, and if i’m on WiFi, welp, there goes my battery. If the biggest push of your advertising is “More Bars in More Places”, actually deliver on that promise. Verizon has you absolutely whooped, as does T-Mobile’s coverge area. You suck, AT&T.
1. Updating and syncing my iPhone is the technological equivalent of getting kicked in the balls by a steel toed brushed aluminum boot.
iTunes has to be the biggest pain in the ass of any iPhone user. Not everybody is on a Mac, Apple. Nobody on the PC actually LIKES iTunes. Your crushing oppression to any alternative methods of using your products, apart from the app store, is absolutely killing my will to live. If I want to toss a few songs on my phone for when i’m waiting in line or in the car and nothings on the radio, it’s going to be an hour long process. Why does iTunes simply stop responding when I connect an iPhone (or my iPod, for that matter)? iTunes will crash, my phone will brick and have to be restored, and lets not forget about the phantom contact list. Why has ‘dragging and dropping’ been superseded by a bunch of playlists and checkboxes? Why can’t i just drag a goddamn mp3 to my phone? You know, for kings of the interface and guru’s of the user experience, iTunes is a blight upon the internet.
I suppose the only alternative is to pickup an Android on Verizon in the coming few months, hmm?
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Landon is the guy behind the scenes at noss media- he founded the company in 2009. He's the Interaction Designer and Product Evangelist.
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