iPhone Week 3...

Ok so it's now my third week with the iPhone and I figured it would be worthwhile posting a quick follow up to mention what I feel about the device now that the excitement of owning one of these things is gone.

At this point I would honestly say I have mixed feelings about the device. As a phone is above average. As a PDA, once you get the email configured (no fault of the phones), its pretty schmexy, I love not lugging around 15 pounds of laptop. I still hate iTunes and the Apple Store is so woefully inadaquate for selling software that it makes my brain hurt at how a company the general masses think is so "brilliant" can be so stupid at how it sells software (but oh that's right, Apple doesn't really know how to sell software without slagging its competition with TV ads that are outright lies).

The biggest disappointment I have had thus far is the fact that the iPhone SDK requires a Mac. When I got my phone I took a look at the app store and saw pretty much 95% crap/overpriced items on there, but it did inspire me to want to maybe write a few small apps of my own. Sadly this dream is done for until Apple gets off its collective ass and smells the coffee by releasing the SDK for Windows and Linux. I honestly do not know what they were thinking but 95% of the computer work does not use a Mac, so why they chose to cut this massive market segment out from developing for the phone IMHO shows that they are either ignorant and inept or theyre being anti-competative and are trying to force people to buy Macs to really extend the iPhone capabilities and make it great.

A minor disappointment is that for some reason, if I change the ports on my email, it somehow fucks up the phone and prevents it from connecting to the 3G network of my carrier... WTF. So each time this happens (luckily I am done configuring the email) I have to reset the phone's settings. GAH! I had to learn this the hard way by waiting on hold to my carrier for them to give me that 2 minute solution :(

A minor annoyance is the fact that for some reason now, my keypad on the iPhone is horribly laggy. Maybe I am trying to type too fast but I can end up whole sentences ahead of what the phone is displaying on the screen and then I can watch it play cathup. I am not sure what is going on here but it seems like a major flaw to me which makes using the phone for anything more than a quick email response kinda useless. If anyone has any suggestions on fixing this please let me know.

Another minor annoyance is using the web browser and posting in a forum. For some rediculous reason, each type you type a letter in a forum post, the retarded Safari browser decides to scroll the screen suddenly up to the top of the screen and then back down to the forum post. I have found if I zoom out of the forum post (which is a bit tricky because the keyboard for the iPhone takes up so much screen) I can get around this issue... but reading what I have typed becomes a bit tricky :(

As for any new positive things to say about the phone, I haven't really experianced any since my initial post, but if I do I will be sure to mention it.