you're a programmer and you prefer the iphone despite the fact that it doesn't have cut and paste?
How does programming tie in with cut and paste? Please don't tell me you think I'm coding using the onscreen keyboard itself. Would I like that feature? Yeah, if they got around to implementing it I'd probably use it. But you know what? Overall the device is so much more efficient than the other phones on the market I don't mind. See unlike people who love to get vitriolic just because of some gadget's brand, I buy my electronics based on their performance. Yes, the lack of copy and paste limits the utility of the iPhone, but the resulting loss of efficiency is nowhere near what using one of the other market-leading phones would incur. I know 'cause I've tried.
the UI of the iphone is esthetically pleasing, but if efficient to you means a bunch of icons sprawled across several screens then i'd hate to see the code you write.
I'm not a UI designer. Neither are you, but the looks of it. The UI of the iPhone is, for most task sets, the best out there for a device of that size. It becomes a problem if you've got more than 20 apps that you use on a very regular basis, but for most people it seems to do the best job of balancing flexibility, usability, and efficiency.
i'm not even sure what kind of connection you're even trying to make with being technically oriented and preferring the iphone when one of your main uses is just the mail.app.
I was responding to markgamber's idiotic claim that Windows Mobile was the platform of choice for "technically oriented" folk.
e-mail is one of my primary communication channels. I want a device that can do this well, especially since when I'm away from my computer, the last thing I want to do is spend extra time dicking around with my mail client. If I'm reading my e-mail away from my computer, I want a way to communicate efficiently. Is the UI of MobileMail.app simple? Hell yes. That's the exact reason it's so efficient to use.
are you trying to say that you code FOR the iphone as well? in that case i suppose it would make sense.
That too. Hence my (brief) comparison of Cocoa/.NET
either way, by and large i dont think anyone can disagree that the iphone IS GENERALLY pretty much aimed towards the 'teenagers/housewives' crowd.
I can. It's aimed towards the "people who've spent too much time screwing around with crappy mobile phone UIs and just want the damn thing to do voice, texts and (maybe) e-mail" demographic. Big market, as it turns out.
not literally, but just people who want a simple device with novelty apps and can play a bunch of crappy games.
Yeah, novelty apps. Like a web browser. Or an e-mail client. Or an IM program. Yes, there are games, and yes there are a lot of them. Then again, there are a lot of games available for PCs, and I don't see you claiming they're not a useful tool.
Just because a device does one set of tasks well doesn't mean it can't also be useful for another task set.
just look at the top paid/free apps in the store and you can easily find out who the majority of iphone users are. when something completely useless and stupid like 'koi pond' becomes the top app for weeks on end, then you know what your main crowd is like...
Is the internet useless because Chocolate ****ing Rain was an internet sensation?
Also, I should remind you: many of the main selling points (i.e. the phone, text, e-mail, and browsing apps) come bundled with the phone itself.
