Wow, Bloomberg "iPhone, massive fail"

matttye said:
"You have to tap the clock to get the search feature in contacts"

No you don't. That idiot should NOT be getting interviewed on a website like this, where people will actually believe what he's saying.

The search feature is just hidden out of view of the scrollable list, and you can drag the list down to find it. Tapping the clock is a shortcut to make lists scroll to the top. I've known that since the first iPhone came out!
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OMG you are right!! The first thing I did was go to contacts and hit the clock and I was like that didn't work it just went to the top of the list like it always does. If that guy is calling the fact when you hit the clock it goes to the top of the list a "hidden" feature he really knows nothing about the iPhone. Like the poster above I have known about this from the first iPhone. How can people like this review a product they seem to know nothing about. You can also just go to spotlight search by scrolling to the right on the home page. How is theis difficult??:confused:
 
matttye said:
Do you have an iPhone 5?

I've noticed subtle design changes that I think are probably made because it has a slightly taller screen.
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Yes, and that is what I thought too but then I grabbed my 4 which is also on iOS 6 and it looks the same. Then I grabbed an iPhone 3G which is on iPhoneOS 3.1.3 and there it's still 'hidden'. I haven't had iOS 5 on a phone in weeks so I can't easily check what happens in that.

You can still see the hidden search bar if you go into music and then select the "songs" tab :)
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I suppose searching for a contact by name is something more often done than a song.
 
CyBeRino said:
Yes, and that is what I thought too but then I grabbed my 4 which is also on iOS 6 and it looks the same. Then I grabbed an iPhone 3G which is on iPhoneOS 3.1.3 and there it's still 'hidden'. I haven't had iOS 5 on a phone in weeks so I can't easily check what happens in that.



I suppose searching for a contact by name is something more often done than a song.
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True.

I just find it strange that he thinks you have to tap the clock to get the search box, when you don't. I agree with him that it is a little unintuitive having the search box out of view like that.
 
Next Bloomberg Clip

When I finished watching, Bloomberg showed this:

http://www.bloomberg.com/video/neta...s-steady-ceo-says-bDkLN~TZTuue_cCzTDCojA.html

In this comment, the SAME guy tells us how iCloud and Content like iTunes Music and Movies will drive NetApp's future...

What? He first tells us how ****** iCloud and iTunes and iPhoto is regarding cloud usability. Then he tells us that this is the way to the future,

Come on...

I'd like to argue that Apple has taken some strange paths to unify iOS and Mac User Experience, and also some really disappointing moves in Lion and Mountain Lion. (Full Screen Apps, Multi Monitor Support and so forth)

But I'd probably write another post for that.
 
Ah yes, the Armond White of the tech "journalism" world. He's a contrarian trying to get page views and reaction. Nothing more. The fact that he says the iPhone is a "massive fail" instead of a "massive failure" causes him to lose all credibility with me.
 
OMFG, can I please have those 4 minutes of my life back? I'd rather watch a Justin Bieber music video than listen to that arrogant idiot spout tonnes of crap from his mouth.

Seriously, the search bit really irritates me. I don't know whether to be more annoyed about his claim that searching on the iPhone is really unintuitive or about the brain-dead Genius that he apparently dealt with.

Apple really has become the company that people love to hate, even when the complaints they come up with are just dumb.
 
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cdmoore74 said:
LOL!!! The Apple fanboy (he said it) going against Apple. I actually feel sorry that Apple no longer has Steve Jobs. Did anyone think Tim Cook would be a better Steve?
Tim Cook should have never come out and critized maps and offer third party alternatives this past Friday. It's a sign of weakness and uncertainty. If I was running a burger joint and someone critized my food I'm not going to tell my customers to go to McDonalds and Burger King. I'm going to kick my cook in the butt and tell him what I want or find someone else that can fix the problem. Apple has no excuse not to do this with all the money they have.
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I agree totally
 
JodyK said:
22k plus photos here ... All taken with a very high resolution DSLR ... Huge library in iPhoto ... Larger than most SSD drives.

My Mac hasn't came apart yet.
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Seriously.
I scanned my 75 year old fathers 35mm slides with a Nikon Super COOLSCAN 5000 ED so that he could catalog them all with captions/faces/places/ect.
He had 450 slide carousels all full.
The images are like 20MB.
iPhoto does just fine on a 2008 iMac.

Not to mention his ~10,000 DSLR images or the 5,000 photographs he has scanned.
 
"Tap the clock to search." What are they talking about?

Edit: I get it now. That is such an elementary feature. I bet he doesn't know it also does multi touch.
 
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macaronia said:
"Tap the clock to search." What are they talking about?
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The time in the status bar, it will auto scroll to the top of almost any application, and in the case of the contacts it will show the search bar. Although I always see the bar on the iPhone 5.


He has a point about iTunes being the sync application for a phone which does a lot more than music. Also I agree that iPhoto for the Mac is pretty hard to use, and by contrast I think iPhoto for iOS is great. Overall Apple does need to dedicate a team to refining their current applications and features rather than always pushing for new things.
 
So this genius thinks that when you're in Contacts you have to tap the clock to search? What a moron. You don't tap the clock. You touch the status bar to bring yourself to the top of the screen, just like you do from just about any screen. Of course tapping the clock isn't intuitive. That's not what you're doing, idiot, you're touching the status bar. That's the definition of intuitive, since it works on every screen.

One thing I will agree with is that iTunes is a cluster-eff. I was chatting with an Apple genius about it and he wholeheartedly agreed. He explained that iTunes was originally a piece of software that Apple purchased in the late 90s that was an mp3 application. Over the years it has be added to and added to to the point that it is very difficult to use. I find it very frustrating. He said that Apple is building a new iTunes from the ground up which will hopefully be as intuitive as their other products are.
 
MarcBook said:
OMFG, can I please have those 4 minutes of my life back? I'd rather watch a Justin Bieber music video that listen to that arrogant idiot spout tonnes of crap from his mouth.

Seriously, the search bit really irritates me. I don't know whether to be more annoyed about his claim that searching on the iPhone is really unintuitive or about the brain-dead Genius that he apparently dealt with.

Apple really has become the company that people love to hate, even when the complaints they come up with are just dumb.
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Absolutely agree with you, the guy has no idea what he's talking about.
 
I thought this a very insightful video. He will be the first of many to knock down the iPhone 5 once the newness wears off.
 
I must be in the minority of users becuase after the switch to iCloud I have never had a problem with contacts, reminders, calender events, etc syncing across all my iOS devices and Macs. Seemed to work flawlessly.

The only thing I don't like this far is no way to pics from my iPhones in to folders in iPhoto using a wireless connection. For that reason I still sync wired.
 
If he thinks an iPhone is too complicated to use, then he is a dumbass. The iPhone is very intuitive. Its not like it has a million different ways to do the same thing.
 
Garrett67 said:
If he thinks an iPhone is too complicated to use, then he is a dumbass. The iPhone is very intuitive. Its not like it has a million different ways to do the same thing.
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It's interesting that people are complaining that iOS hasn't changed that much... Yet he is complaining that what used to be so intuitive is no longer...

To me, iOS 6 hasn't changed drastically enough to say that it is no longer intuitive. If my 70 year old mom and 67 year old dad get it... It must be pretty intuitive.
 
What a terrible commentary. You don't need to plug into iTunes ever. I don't get where this guy gets off.

He should go to android. Everything is 5 times more complicated. He honestly thinks that Steve Jobs would solve this problem.

He doesn't even know what the OS is called. "iO 6"
 
If he thinks iOS is overly complicated, I have a feeling this guy still calls the TV remote in his house "the clicker".
 
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