My iPhone 4 - it's boring me.

[AndyDel]

I like Mac OS because it lets me play games, surf the web, and edit videos.

You're telling me you like it because they added Time Machine and a 3D dock?

Those are tools that help me do the things I need to do. Your problem is that you apparently aren't DOING anything with your computers. You're just admiring them. It's like staring at a car in the driveway all day. It's pointless if you don't actually drive the car anywhere.

I use my iMac for the same, but i also love Time Machine because it was.. Well brilliant.. A great innovative way of backing up and finding your data.

I drive a Renault Espace, since getting married and having a kid i've offically given up on shiney and admirable things .

I just want the same things i get from the Desktop OS, in the iOS.. That kind of "We must be the best and give our users the best features" moto they have adopted for years when it's come to Windows vs Mac, because as consumers it means we all get better products tbh.

Look buddy, find a hobby if you're bored or learn a skill that will help you be more innovative yourself. Waiting around to be wowed is clearly not working for you.

What reaction would you of liked, i can't quite think of any others to attitude of "You're bored of your iPhone, must be that your life is boring".

Here's a tip.. Somebody spends more than two moments on the internet, bringing up a topic.. Does not mean they have to find a hobby, spend more time in the garden or drop into a state of clinical depression.. Please, get a grip on reality and stop using tired on lines which dimwits have used to somehow marginalized others.

 

[AndyDel]

What exactly do you need your phone to do? IMO, it does seem a strange complaint:

- I need my phone to do new stuff!
Sure, like what?
- I don't know. Just something new.

Personally, I'd prefer if Apple added features to fulfil needs, rather than adding features for the sake of it. If you know of anything that should be added to the iPhone, by all means mention it here. Chances are, some app does it, and if not, Apple might well listen to the feedback.

Personally i think cloud based services and stuff like creating a mobile hotspot are features which would be useful.

And yes i’d agree, i’d rather Apple left developers to add such features to the phone. Unfortunately like with the mobile hotspot app, it was denied and forced to sell less legitimately via a jailbroken appstore. Equally i don’t like jailbreaking my phone, due to the thought of allowing somebody to mess with it in that way with a piece of software.

Also where are those innovating ideas that none of us expect, but will be incredibly useful.

I never expected cloud based services to be used in the way Google Intents will do on Android, looks like a very cool and useful feature to have on a phone.

So why aren’t Apple pushing forward in a similar way, when they display such forward thinking when it comes to things like their Desktop OS.

If you don’t innovate, consumers don’t get better products.

Look at when the original iPhone was released, it blew everything away. Forced other manufactures to wake up, gave us all much more choice and generally.. Better phones.

 

[PirateP]

Go buy an android phone and see if that helps your boredom. My guess is that it won't though. these are phones after all, not antidepressants nor cures for A.D.D.

Truth. It is a phone. It does some other stuff, too. What the hell do you expect it to do? Dance and sing?

 

[Savor]

Honeymoon phase is already over for you too, eh?

Just remember, this isn't a toy, although most business users and Apple haters in the Howard Forums label iPhone as one.

This is also a tool. Toys we get bored. Tools we need to make our life easier.

Remember when we were like 9? We buy a toy like some action figure, we get all excited, open the box, and play with it. After a day or two with it, we got bored. Don't expect your iPhone to be like that. Just because I get bored of my latest car or latest big screen TV doesn't mean I should go back and return them. I still have uses for them. But I understand how you feel about the iPhone platform feeling a bit stagnant. I also feel that complacency.

 

[Jett0516]

hey I'll trade you my nexus 1 for your iphone 4!

btw the nexus 1 isn't boring. flash keeps you entertained, you'll love it.

 

[AndyDel]

Honeymoon phase is already over for you too, eh?

Just remember, this isn't a toy, although most business users and Apple haters in the Howard Forums label iPhone as one.

This is also a tool. Toys we get bored. Tools we need to make our life easier.

Remember when we were like 9? We buy a toy like some action figure, we get all excited, open the box, and play with it. After a day or two with it, we got bored. Don't expect your iPhone to be like that. Just because I get bored of my latest car or latest big screen TV doesn't mean I should go back and return them. I still have uses for them. But I understand how you feel about the iPhone platform feeling a bit stagnant. I also feel that complacency.

Have to agree slightly, but then i'm not looking to goto Android either.. Least not until their platform application wise is on par with Apple.

I got bored of the OS in general when i bought an iPhone 3GS, but it's the lack of new thinking which is really annoying me.. Seeing other mobile operating systems looking to move forward, using stuff like cloud base services. Guess i just expect Apple to keep up with the times like they do with the Desktop OS, not fall behind slightly.

Apple have always been synonymise with innovation, when the iPhone first came out that was clear.. They just haven't really done much OS wise since then though, which begs the question.. Why.. Because there is obviously a market for it.

I love my iPhone 4, said that in my original post and i think some others in here seem to have skipped over the positives i listed and rather though i was battering Apple.. I don't dropped £500 on a phone lightly. I just don't think it's unreasonable to expect them to keep up with the pace operating system wise, it is afterall something they are famous for doing.

hey I'll trade you my nexus 1 for your iphone 4!

btw the nexus 1 isn't boring. flash keeps you entertained, you'll love it.

 

[samcraig]

Umm the iPhone <> medication.

These threads are funny - and I have the same response to them every time. If you're bored by a device - then it's your issue - not the phone's. Maybe you should go read a book. Go for a bike ride. Something to lessen the dependency on your electronic device to keep you entertained.

 

[5630745]

I’ve owned all versions of the iPhones over the years, also a HTC Desire just previously to purchasing my iPhone 4.

I’m getting desperately bored.

I keep looking at Android (ala 2.2) and the innovations / interesting new features they’re added, such as the “Google Intents” and i can’t quite see why Apple aren’t as exciting.

Don’t get me wrong, Android has some serious limitations in itself. Until 2.2 is widely available and developers have reacted to the ability to store applications on a storage card, the Marketplace is going to stay where it is.. Ever so slightly behind the app store, although this will be overcome in the next 12 months as development ramps up.

Still.. I can’t help but feel i prefer Android.. I won’t go back to it mind, purely due to the disparity in applications.

I just can’t get excited about iOS anymore, nothing about it is moving forward for me. Nothing exciting about it has ever been added, it’s stayed relatively the same since it’s inception.. Where is the innovation and forward thinking displayed on it’s release..

Heres the main things ii can do extra since i had my iPhone 2G..

- Copy and paste
- Record video
- Make folders
- SMS
- Threaded email
- Video chat

Hardly earth shattering additions to the operating system.. Granted, Apple tend to do these new features in a way that is much better than the competition, but that still doesn’t change the fact that innovation has been incredibly limited.

Where is the cloud to device messaging stuff (ala Google Intents), where is my mobile wifi hotspot feature, ability to refund applications within 1-2 weeks of purchase, voice recognition... Where are the new ideas from Apple..

I also own a 27" iMac - when you look at Mac OSX it's pretty clear that they've stayed quite relevant and ahead when it comes to Desktop OS, with companies like Microsoft looking to clone allot of features they add as a result. TimeMachine is a prime example of that, now that's innovation.. Why don't do see this in their iOS.

God knows, they’ve got enough talent, time and money to come up with some.. Why is Android forging ahead in that respect, when Apple had quite a jump on it before we even saw the G1.

I still love my iPhone 4.. I still think Android has to tighten a couple of bolts.. But it’s really not going to be long till Android matures completely, steams ahead in majority of respects and leaves me looking at iPhone’s thinking.. “Great p hones, nice OS.. But just lagging behind”.

Ditto. And you haven't even touched upon what might WM7 be this fall. And, unlike you, I don't even LIKE my iPhone 4. I wish there was a GSM EVO out.

 

[nooaah]

I don't think this guy needed to be bashed.

At the same time, I could probably read A Tale of Two Cities in a shorter period of time than it takes to read the OP's original post.

 

[boshii]

i dunno if anybody read the first post but he's saying apple needs to innovate it's iOS, which is true. 4 iPhones and still the same interface can easily get boring to a user who has had all 4.

people get way too defensive when anybody says anything remotely negative about the iPhone.

 

[01jamcon]

AndyDel: I understand you completely.

Just a few points: you're getting a lot of dumb responses because you worded your title wrong. A lot of posters on this forum tend to read the title, skim your post (if that) then write a load of gibberish. Many of these same posters are crazily over-defensive about Apple and "iPhone + bored" in a title will set them off. You may have got better (but fewer) responses if you had titled this "Why isn't Apple pushing on with software innovation in iOS?" Its not as catchy though lol.

To your actual posts, I think I get what you mean. While you appreciate the iPhone etc you wish they kept on coming out with cool new features, preferably as free software updates that would make you more excited about the phone again. This is completely understandable, but as others have said, the iPhone isn't a toy, and we're not children, so in the meantime we just have to make do with using the phone as intended.

As to why Apple don't seem to be innovating at the same rate as Google? They might be cooking up stuff in their labs which might blow us all away at some point, but unlike Google and unlike Mac OSX, they have shown us that they aren't willing to rush anything despite any public pressure. Copy and paste? Video? MMS? Multi-tasking? All these features took Apple an absolute age for them to develop, although they have produced them in a very polished manner. Maybe Apple and the iOS team are just a bit slow, maybe they need more staff, more talent, less secrecy, less bossing about from Jobs and the top management who probably cull great ideas because of some minor inconvenience. Apple is all about the polished user experience and they don't want to sacrifice that for anything.

 

[ucfgrad93]

Lol. Well, then go get an Android phone and sell your iPhone 4 on eBay.

Agreed. If you aren't happy with the iPhone, then sell it and move on.

 

[wordoflife]

I feel the same, except I got a 3GS.
Well, whenever I get a new phone, I'm seriously going to consider an Android.

 

[whooleytoo]

Personally i think cloud based services and stuff like creating a mobile hotspot are features which would be useful.

And yes i’d agree, i’d rather Apple left developers to add such features to the phone. Unfortunately like with the mobile hotspot app, it was denied and forced to sell less legitimately via a jailbroken appstore. Equally i don’t like jailbreaking my phone, due to the thought of allowing somebody to mess with it in that way with a piece of software.

Also where are those innovating ideas that none of us expect, but will be incredibly useful.

I never expected cloud based services to be used in the way Google Intents will do on Android, looks like a very cool and useful feature to have on a phone.

So why aren’t Apple pushing forward in a similar way, when they display such forward thinking when it comes to things like their Desktop OS.

If you don’t innovate, consumers don’t get better products.

Look at when the original iPhone was released, it blew everything away. Forced other manufactures to wake up, gave us all much more choice and generally.. Better phones.

Some good suggestions. The cloud-based services might be on the way - though personally I have very little interest in streaming my media from the 'cloud' until the networks and my ISPs improve greatly. The hotspot idea is nice, though that one is probably a lot less likely.

Innovation always slows as a market matures (or at least, it appears to). The iPhone's release was a big, exciting jump in mobile phone technology which will be difficult to replicate. I actually think the pace of innovation is growing, but since there are a lot of companies all making incremental improvements, it's a lot less apparent than one company making occasional, big releases.

 

[ranguvar]

I can't stand these "you need to get out more" responses. The OP brings up a discussion about how the iOS platform isn't very innovative and pretty much all he gets are responses as if he were a depressed maniac.

On-topic: There haven't really been that much innovations on the iOS platform, but then again, there's nothing I miss.

 

[whooleytoo]

I can't stand these "you need to get out more" responses. The OP brings up a discussion about how the iOS platform isn't very innovative and pretty much all he gets are responses as if he were a depressed maniac.

On-topic: There haven't really been that much innovations on the iOS platform, but then again, there's nothing I miss.

Sorry, if my original post was one of these. But at the same time - it was kind of inevitable. If he had started a thread titled: "My kettle, not as much fun as it used to be.." he'd have received the same response.

 

[samcraig]

i dunno if anybody read the first post but he's saying apple needs to innovate it's iOS, which is true. 4 iPhones and still the same interface can easily get boring to a user who has had all 4.

people get way too defensive when anybody says anything remotely negative about the iPhone.

A lot of posters on this forum tend to read the title, skim your post (if that) then write a load of gibberish. Many of these same posters are crazily over-defensive about Apple and "iPhone + bored" in a title will set them off.

I'll speak for me only. I read the OP. And while I like the Apple products I own - I don't think they are infallible or "amazing" - they are the best tools for what my personal requirements are. But they are definitely (all of them) flawed and could be improved.

My comment had nothing to do with Apple bashing - nor any "love" for Apple. My point was purely sociological. People have more and more dependency on technology to be something more than it is - or desire it to be.

It's a phone. And it does a lot. And it has the same UI because it works well. Is it perfect? No. But it would be disastrous for there to be any major overhaul.

 

[iGuyiGuy]

Message to the OP..

You have to remember where you are posting this "iphone bashing" scenario..

You are saying that you do not appreciate apple being innovative and only upsetting all of the folks in here that live love and breathe for their devices..

I personally agree with you, and feel apple needs to "step their game up" for lack of better words..

It just seems most people in here get all fussy when someone talks down about the shiny new device steve jobs has spoon fed to them..

I mean the iphone 4 is a faster iphone 2g in a new shiny package. I did purchase one on the day of release but after a week I too was bored, sold it, and purchased a blackberry torch..

 

[samcraig]

I mean the iphone 4 is a faster iphone 2g in a new shiny package. I did purchase one on the day of release but after a week I too was bored, sold it, and purchased a blackberry torch..

And see - I find this statement sad. But to each their own and I hope you're happy with the BB. Has nothing to do with my opinion of either phone... I just think (as I said above) people are too reliant on their devices to amuse them. But again - that's just me.

 

[01jamcon]

You have to remember where you are posting this "iphone bashing" scenario..

You are saying that you do not appreciate apple being innovative and only upsetting all of the folks in here that live love and breathe for their devices..

I personally agree with you, and feel apple needs to "step their game up" for lack of better words..

It just seems most people in here get all fussy when someone talks down about the shiny new device steve jobs has spoon fed to them..

I mean the iphone 4 is a faster iphone 2g in a new shiny package. I did purchase one on the day of release but after a week I too was bored, sold it, and purchased a blackberry torch..

Lol at least you won't lose any excitement by using the BB Torch because it looks completely dire to begin with. The other BB's I can see the point of, simple but powerful email and messaging tools. The Torch however looks like a glossed up Palm Pre with a keyboard nowhere near as good as the older BB's.

Sorry for going off-topic

 

[Megalobyte]

I'm bored with my home's air conditioning unit. I mean, it does cool the house down and all, and does it very well and efficiently, but I don't know, it's been the same basic concept for years, guess I'm looking for something new and exciting.

My point being, new stuff, if just for the sake of something new, isn't always good.

Does the IP4 do everything, no, if it did, there wouldn't be an IP5, but I'd rather have a device that does most of what I need it to do really well, than one which does everything I need, but poorly.

Android is new, iphone is now, in a mobile market perspective, old. It has come a long way, or does nobody recall how amazing, yet incredibly slow and frustrating the first iphone was. And the 4 has added a lot of new and cool stuff in my opinion.

Apple seems to let the phone evolve more slowly, and in the end, you get a product that does most of what you need, very well, while other companies might be always pushing that envelope, with mixed results. Perhaps Apple has a better long term view, while android based phones may be more of a flash in the pan, who knows, time will tell. Besides, Apple doesn't do flash anyway...

I'm not an Apple guy, the iphone is the only Apple product I have owned, but it has made my life a lot easier in many ways, and it's a valuable business and non business tool for me. I've played around with most of the new Android phones, they seem less well made, and inferior in most ways, but that's just my opinion.

 

[cobra5mil]

I have often had the same thoughts as the OP. Lack of apps or games/things to do is not the issue. It is the innovative of new features for the phone that is slow. The lack of AVRCP, incompatability with car sync systems, the lack of email notification reminders, full OS voice command, GPS maps navigation, personal cloud based music library. All things that would have made the iPhone better but are still missing.

I think the OP is not complaining about not finding fun games/apps to use. He is saying that he is bored and unimpressed with the features that Apple has been adding over the years. The iPhone was amazing when it was first announced, but now features being added are old news for other phones and things are still missing. Where are the new ideas that no one has done yet?

 

[iGuyiGuy]

Lol at least you won't lose any excitement by using the BB Torch because it looks completely dire to begin with. The other BB's I can see the point of, simple but powerful email and messaging tools. The Torch however looks like a glossed up Palm Pre with a keyboard nowhere near as good as the older BB's.

Sorry for going off-topic

Its pretty nice! Anyway I had the ip4 and had issues making and receiving phone calls, and that IS after all what a phone is for....so bye bye

 

[Consultant]

Um,

Android 2.2 to do things we assumed it already did
http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2010/05/01/android-2-2-to-do-things-we-assumed-it-already-did/

I'm bored with my home's air conditioning unit. I mean, it does cool the house down and all, and does it very well and efficiently, but I don't know, it's been the same basic concept for years, guess I'm looking for something new and exciting.

My point being, new stuff, if just for the sake of something new, isn't always good.

Does the IP4 do everything, no, if it did, there wouldn't be an IP5, but I'd rather have a device that does most of what I need it to do really well, than one which does everything I need, but poorly.

Android is new, iphone is now, in a mobile market perspective, old. It has come a long way, or does nobody recall how amazing, yet incredibly slow and frustrating the first iphone was. And the 4 has added a lot of new and cool stuff in my opinion.

Apple seems to let the phone evolve more slowly, and in the end, you get a product that does most of what you need, very well, while other companies might be always pushing that envelope, with mixed results. Perhaps Apple has a better long term view, while android based phones may be more of a flash in the pan, who knows, time will tell. Besides, Apple doesn't do flash anyway...

I'm not an Apple guy, the iphone is the only Apple product I have owned, but it has made my life a lot easier in many ways, and it's a valuable business and non business tool for me. I've played around with most of the new Android phones, they seem less well made, and inferior in most ways, but that's just my opinion.

OMG where is the excitement not having to deal with spyware and apps from scammers like you have to deal with Android? Something that works is TOTALLY boring.

 

[Corndog5595]

Think some people are more than missing the point

I own an iPhone 4.. My wife a 3GS.. I also have a 27" iMac..

I'm about as sucked in and devoted Apple user as they come, this isn't a "Apple suck ass, iPhones are gay and Android is the second coming"..

It's a valid point made about the fact that while Apple seem innovate with their Desktop OS, iOS seems to have stagnated quite a bit since it's first release.

My wife loves her 3GS, since shes only recently got one.. But it's new to her, i've be using iPhones since the 2G... I want some new exciting things to be coming out, i want to see momentum for the platform.

Unlike some of the people who are missing the point here, I agree with you. When they announced that you could copy and paste, I couldn’t believe the excitement people had about it. Thats like the only end user feature 3.0 brought. Apple really needs to add some features.

I don’t want an overcrowded, bloated OS, but I would like to save files locally and then open them up with other apps, etc.