I think my X is amazing. Pleasure to use and interact with. I have had mine since launch day and I still feel it is a wonderful product; I am very happy I purchased it and did not listen to the early naysayers. I honestly have never enjoyed an Apple product this much.
The people with issues (and those who just feel a need to bash the choices of others) will always be louder on forums like this. The majority of people/users don’t generally need to come to a forum like this and post a thread saying “My X is Still Perfect!”. They are just out there enjoying their life and using their phone.
I am basically in agreement with this. The X is an amazing piece of engineering and manufacturing skill, a technical tour de force. Other manufacturers try to achieve goals like this. I honestly think only Apple really comes close to achieving the kind of vision that this phone represents.
On the other hand, I do feel that the UI/UX people need to keep thinking about how they use this hardware. Some options that seem to me like obvious alternative toggles in settings could make this a far more usable, maybe "transparent" is the right word, user experience.
Buying the phone is a bit of a leap of faith, but I think that the hardware is there, waiting for the UI/UX engineering team to really grasp and envision the capabilities they've been given. The hardware side has given them the canvas and a full palette. They need to get to work and really paint up to the potential that they have been given.
With that said (wow, wordy, sorry), even with the things that bother me, DK really captures it: "[p]leasure to use and interact with." I keep thinking I'm going to return it and the bottom line is that I'm having a very hard time actually seeing myself doing that, which really tells you how I feel at the end of the day.
