Boy Genius Report has recently done a great write-up on the Top 10 things they hate about the iPhone, but they aren’t the first or last to do so. apcmag.com has one and so does A Liverpool Web Designer. Why is my list different? I’m not a cell phone techie or a windows mobile super user AND I do my best to not use my cell phone for work. I don’t get good service in my office at work, so that makes it tricky to use it there. I think BGR and the others did great lists, but there are some simple things that they definitely missed that relate to non-powerusers. For some background, I was seriously debating getting an iPhone when my Blackjack started getting poor reception. So i was looking around at my options and saw the Tilt at the AT&T store and I thought it was really cool!(which it is!) So i bought one and the next day saw news that the Fuze was coming out so I returned my Tilt. (After breaking the screen and replacing it but that’s a different story.) And I work with a lot of iPhoneAddicts(not the people from the site, but actual addicts) so I got to hear it first hand how great the iPhone was when it came out, how great it still is, and how great it will forever be. I’m still not impressed. I may have gotten an iPhone if it weren’t for all the problems that BGR went over and that I still have. Bash me all you want, but let me say the iPhone IS a great phone, its just not right for me and a few others who have problems with it.
Time for my list. I’ll start backwards… well in order… at 10.
10. iPhone(Apple) users. Don’t get me wrong. I like people, but iPhone people and Apple people are their own breed. They always think that Macs are the best, Apple is the best company ever and the iPhone is the best thing since sliced bread. They will push the iPhone on you until you hate everything Apple. This includes you Walt Mossberg. Apparently for the price you get one iPhone and a few pounds of smug to carry around with you. When the iPhone 3G came out I had to keep checking my phone to make sure I really did have 3G for years because the way it was advertised I was certain they were releasing something so new to the market I couldn’t have had it already.
9. Applications made free for iPhones. I can go over a lot of applications that come out for iPhone that are free and good, but were out for Windows mobile for years beforehand and were not free. Shazam is out on Android and iPhone for free. They came out with a program called “TagIt” in 2006, but that has disappeared and they only have the service for iPhone and Android or for people in the UK(no offense, US gets stuff first 9 times out of 10). Pandora! Free for iPhone and its BIG NEWS, but its been out for Windows Mobile for a while, but you had to pay, which is not cool. I’m sure there are more out there, but I cant think of them right now. Those are the 2 big ones.
8. Cut and Paste. BGR is right, this is a big problem. Just because the Macs dont have mice with 2 buttons doesn’t mean you need to cripple your iPhone to not be able to copy and paste! (I know you can right click NOW but that’s kind of new).
7. 1 word, Flash. Skyfire has recently given Windows mobile users the benefit of Flash websites. I’d expect the best phone in the world to do the same. Flash mobile has been out for a while, but what sites recognize flash lite 3.1 or mobile 7? And Safari is constantly touted as the best browser. The numbers are simple – SkyFire loads WebPages much faster than Safari plus you get the real internet (yeah, with Flash, etc). Oh and congrats iPhone you finally have more choices.
