http://www.eleventhvolume.com/miscellany/2008/05/04/iphone-initial-impressions/ Music and culture, mostly. Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:21:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.eleventhvolume.com/miscellany/2008/05/04/iphone-initial-impressions/#comment-61813 Colin Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:32:52 +0000 http://www.eleventhvolume.com/miscellany/2008/05/04/iphone-initial-impressions/#comment-61813 Thanks Chris. You're right that functionality vs simplicity is the challenge. They've made a brilliant start in this direction and I guess their app store is their quality control. Lack of copy and paste is clearly one of the ways in which they're favouring simplicity over usefulness. I'm hoping the mobilescrobbler will be available with the iPhone v2 release - fingers crossed! Thanks Chris. You’re right that functionality vs simplicity is the challenge. They’ve made a brilliant start in this direction and I guess their app store is their quality control. Lack of copy and paste is clearly one of the ways in which they’re favouring simplicity over usefulness. I’m hoping the mobilescrobbler will be available with the iPhone v2 release - fingers crossed!

]]> http://www.eleventhvolume.com/miscellany/2008/05/04/iphone-initial-impressions/#comment-61737 Chris Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:42:29 +0000 http://www.eleventhvolume.com/miscellany/2008/05/04/iphone-initial-impressions/#comment-61737 Good review Colin, it looks like Apple have a real dilemma - how do they increase the functionality of the iphone but retain the simplicity? I'd be very interested to see if they start to build more gesture based commands into future versions. I think they have tried to use more gestures on the macbook trackpad but I'm not sure how natural the mapping is between the command and action in some cases. btw if you ever jailbreak your phone the mobilescrobbler app is a very good last.fm client! Good review Colin, it looks like Apple have a real dilemma - how do they increase the functionality of the iphone but retain the simplicity?
I’d be very interested to see if they start to build more gesture based commands into future versions. I think they have tried to use more gestures on the macbook trackpad but I’m not sure how natural the mapping is between the command and action in some cases.
btw if you ever jailbreak your phone the mobilescrobbler app is a very good last.fm client!

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