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Love me some iPhone.

It took me thirty seconds to figure out how to do everything on the iPhone the first time I touched it. Every other phone I've had has taken weeks.

Apr 22, 08 - 07:08 pm Comment from: freefromdesign

If it's not so hard, lets see you do it Mr. Krazit. The problem is too many designers think like engineers, if they can understand it why can't everyone else. I even see doors with instructions (push, pull slide). If something needs an instructions manual, its a poor design, end of story.

Apr 22, 08 - 07:17 pm Comment from: Ampar

"The problem is too many designers think like engineers . . ."

Or stupid politics interfere . . . drive-up automatic teller machines with Braille instructions comes to mind. Get enough cash to cover the horrific crash you're about to cause.

Apr 22, 08 - 07:26 pm Comment from: Gandalf

If only software engineers thought like real engineers there'd be a lot fewer manufacturing faults (aka bugs).

Really it goes to show how misled the human race has become when pointing out the obvious appears so informative.

Apr 22, 08 - 07:42 pm Comment from: occams razor

@k_shaw

I've given up on every bastard phone I've owned, what a freakin' nightmare. My iPhone is a beautiful, simple beastie, just farkin magic. Perfection software, perfection.

Hey ChrissyOne,

Bartt had a great post on the China store within a store story. Check it out!

…to prevent the urban cyclist's nightmare: getting doored. If a sensor on the bike could detect some basic information, such as whether someone is sitting in the driver's seat and the car is off. That's the most likely scenario for someone to start opening their door, and could send some sort of "SOS" alert to the user.

Unless they're using infrared, I can't imagine sensors/processors being faster or more accurate than our own eyes/brains at detecting if someone's about to open a car door as you're cycling up on them. I'd love an early warning system, but that's a specific danger that's hard to beat using artificial measures.

Aim high, I guess.

"The problem is too many designers think like engineers . . ."

Or stupid politics interfere . . .

Or worse: stupid BUSINESS politics interferes.

You know, the "We can't invest in (whatever) because it costs too much. Just make something that works. We need it in (some laughably short time)".

Better yet, there's the slimebag ladder climber, who pitches his worthless product to a clueless CEO, and gets the OK anyway "because we'll sell a ton of them". Then when it bombs, he spins it into a promotion.

Apple's engineers get to bear the accountability (and terror) of answering to a CEO who gets it. If you're gonna propose an idea for release consideration, it had better be good.

The iPhone is amazing....simply amazing.

I don't think the iPhone is amazing at all. What's amazing is all the other phones. I've been amazed by them since they first came out, and even more amazed as each new one came out. The iPhone is the first one that has not amazed me.

Apr 22, 08 - 10:46 pm Comment from: CYxodus

I've had my Samsung slider for two years and I still can't figure out how to do 3-way calling without hanging up on someone. And I'm a graphic designer who is fluent with expensive and complicated software on two different platforms.

Apr 22, 08 - 10:47 pm Comment from: CYxodus

I'm looking forward to when my contract runs out. I'm getting an iPhone!

@Digits McGee
"…to prevent the urban cyclist's nightmare: getting doored."
I laughed out loud at this passage - Typical engineering response to a non-problem.
Silly me, I don't have a bicycle rigged with sensors.
I just ride my bike at least a metre out from parked cars.

Apr 23, 08 - 12:27 am Comment from: DogGone

@DJ Jac

Good answer. That always worked for me in the past. Never got doored. I would also use my eyes. If a parked car had a person on the driver's side then the door could open.

Apr 23, 08 - 12:30 am Comment from: TheConfuzed1

I've had my iphone for about three days now and already, I'm hooked! Also, I've pretty much got it mastered, and I've never even opened the instruction book. I had my previous phone (Motorola Nextel i860) for about two years, and there are features that I never quite figured out even after reading the instructions!

*This message brought to you by my new iPhone.

Apr 23, 08 - 01:50 am Comment from: iWill

Understanding iPhone is like understanding finger-painting.
Get it?
Got it.
Good!
(^_^)

Apr 23, 08 - 07:16 am Comment from: Ampar

"I've never even opened the instruction book."

There's an instruction book?

Apr 23, 08 - 08:11 am Comment from: Wandering joe

Today's Joy of tech is a gem!!

Apr 23, 08 - 08:22 am Comment from: Cubert

@Ampar,

"Drive-up automatic teller machines with Braille instructions comes to mind."

Or, signs on stores saying it's OK for guide dogs for the blind to come in.

Apr 23, 08 - 08:25 am Comment from: Cubert

I had to go buy a new phone yesterday (I guess dropping it once or twice a day over the course of a year isn't good for its innards). I thought long and hard about getting an iPhone, but financial constraints held me back - next year.

And, yes, I had to dive into the instruction manual last night.

i bought a samsung xks 126548 (whatever the name is) 2 years ago. it still looks quiet stylish. since then i have been trying to make a photo (and yes, it has a camera). i tried really hard, i have tried all the buttons available, i read the manual many times, still: no success. i consider myself a skilled user, i work on my powermac g5 every day. i use CS3, final cut pro studio, but i still don't manage to make that damn photo.

and yes, i will buy an iphone as soon there is a modest contract attached to it.