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Report: Apple not giving iPhone customers what they want
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I'm sorry you felt I was exagerating but I wasn't. All of the things I listed are limitations of the iPhone compared to say a S60 3rd Edition device for example. If you spend some time in either Howard Forums or the forums at AllAboutSymbian you'll see that they're the major reasons why S60 users wouldn't consider the swap. I imagine it's a similar experience with WinMo users but I don't spend much time with them anymore.
I may have reitterated my issue with the file system several times in my post, but each were different examples of how it limits the usefulness of the phone. It was meant to illistrate how big a problem it is. I appreciate your view that you think for safety reasons it should remain closed, but at the very least they need a communal storage area for users files where they can be shared between apps.
By censorship I meant more along the lines of Apple refusing to allow apps such as the podcaster app because it provides similar functionality to that of iTunes. The inferrence there is that it's unlikely we'll see apps like web browsers, alternative mail apps, etc. And what's happening with Flash support and TomTom? We've yet to hear anything on those.
As for the RIM and Symbian comment, I thought that was fair to be honest. Certainly with Symbian you'll find that it caters for absolutely every smartphone function and supports every technology which is available in mobiles today. Look at the N95, it has every bit of hardware going today in it. The full bluetooth stack, wifi, HSDPA, Flash Lite, Javascript, Java, gps, camera, accelerometer, 3D Graphics, etc. S60 5th Edition supports all of the same things the 3rd Edition does, only with touchscreen support.
I may have reitterated my issue with the file system several times in my post, but each were different examples of how it limits the usefulness of the phone. It was meant to illistrate how big a problem it is. I appreciate your view that you think for safety reasons it should remain closed, but at the very least they need a communal storage area for users files where they can be shared between apps.
By censorship I meant more along the lines of Apple refusing to allow apps such as the podcaster app because it provides similar functionality to that of iTunes. The inferrence there is that it's unlikely we'll see apps like web browsers, alternative mail apps, etc. And what's happening with Flash support and TomTom? We've yet to hear anything on those.
As for the RIM and Symbian comment, I thought that was fair to be honest. Certainly with Symbian you'll find that it caters for absolutely every smartphone function and supports every technology which is available in mobiles today. Look at the N95, it has every bit of hardware going today in it. The full bluetooth stack, wifi, HSDPA, Flash Lite, Javascript, Java, gps, camera, accelerometer, 3D Graphics, etc. S60 5th Edition supports all of the same things the 3rd Edition does, only with touchscreen support.
What a ridiculous comment.
The market is demanding copy/paste and MMS. Yes people have bought it without it, but soon enough there will be another phone that will be almost as good as the iphone with those features and then the ok I won't buy an iphone will be an easy decision.
Don't get me wrong...I knew it didn't have those features and I would currently (without any real competition) still buy the Iphone, but why won't SJ cave in to a relatively simple demand that the Iphone is more than capable of.
To quote someone who had a similar attitude and later regretted it.."You can have any colour you want as long as its black"
What are Steve Jobs' complaints?
Ever wonder what Steve himself secretly gripes about the current version of the OS? I mean, I can't imagine he's carrying a Sony-Ericsson, so I've got to believe he's also using an iPhone - or maybe testing a prototype of future version! - just like you and me. Likely his OS version isn't going to be more stable or have features (eg., C-n-P) which he knows all his customers are secretly lusting after. So it would make sense that he knows about the Safari crashes, what features a user would want, etc. So what is Jobs privately b*tching about?
Ever wonder what Steve himself secretly gripes about the current version of the OS? I mean, I can't imagine he's carrying a Sony-Ericsson, so I've got to believe he's also using an iPhone - or maybe testing a prototype of future version! - just like you and me. Likely his OS version isn't going to be more stable or have features (eg., C-n-P) which he knows all his customers are secretly lusting after. So it would make sense that he knows about the Safari crashes, what features a user would want, etc. So what is Jobs privately b*tching about?
I hate to argue with you, because I agree with you to some extent. I just think you did exaggerate.
You said the iPhone "lacks any sort of multitasking." That's not true. It supports multitasking. It just has no APIs to allow third party background processes at this time.
I agree that the banning of podcaster and mailwrangler sucks, but it would be a stretch to call it "severe censorship."
And your line about Nokia and RIM's touch offering being able to "truly do everything" is either short sighted or hyperbole. Yes, they may be able to do most of what's been done before the iPhone, but they obviously can't do everything the iPhone can do. Patents and such for starters.
Anyway, I agree that iPhone users should continue to push Apple to add important features like the ability to work with documents. I also think one of Apple's strengths is deciding what to leave out.