“Having now wandered in the wilds of various cellphones over the last few months, I am re-reminded why Apple’s iPhone is underestimated. I have a Palm Treo 700, a Research in Motion Blackberry 8800, and a Samsung TV phone, and they all suck,” Paul Kedrosky writes for SeekingAlpha.
Kedrosky lists five things that bug him about the above mentioned trio, and that favor the iPhone:
• Mobile browsers are awful
• Touch screens rule
• Big screens rule
• Mobile fonts are #$%!
• Mobile interfaces are thoughtless
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Nathan” for the heads up.]
MacDailyNews Note: Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s so-called “thoughts” on Apple’s iPhone:
Do mobile phone companies not use their own products? You would think they would make them a little less crap just for their own benefit.
M.X.N.T.4.1: Great question. Now substitute any other company category for mobile phone. Software developers, auto makers, Chinese agricultural distributors, and Hollywood filmmakers to name a few.
Programmers have BIG egos. They think, because they understand how to use the phone software, everyone should understand it.
A good programmer can make anything you want and more.
A great programmer can do the same thing the good programmer can do AND makes it user-friendly for the masses. This is the difference between Apple and most other companies.
I don’t care how great you are at programming if you can’t make the program actually function is a friendly way. Your “good” programming is rendered useless in my eyes, and you’d never be hired by me.
Like the Emporor’s clothes. People won’t know they really are awful until they see/try something that isn’t awful.
iPhone is doing the talking by waking people up to the fact that what they thought was OK or even good, is actually atrocious.
A few more people trying OS X would help too.
“Do mobile phone companies not use their own products? You would think they would make them a little less crap just for their own benefit.”
Stupid is as stupid does.
Looking at the Uncle Fester video again (I’ve seen it 50 times, it’s a hoot), it’s clear why MicroTrash is soooo boring.
His phones “do music”, “do internet”, “do email”, “do instant messaging”. They are “very capable machines”.
Their “machines” may “do” several things, but the Ford Pinto would also “do” point A to B.
What a waste.
dd gets it.
I’m so glad that Ballmer is happy with thier strategy, he will need to be when the iPhone releases…
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I can see why Microsofts strategy sucks. Ballmer didn’t have any impression of the iPhone until the end of the presentation, when the price was mentioned. Sounds to me like too may dead brain cells up there….
MadMac: That’s a whole lot of do coming out of Turtle Boy and Fester.
Programmers should not design interfaces. Interface designers / HCI specialists etc should design interfaces and hand the specs over to programmers. If Nokia et al don’t have interface designers, just programmers, then that’s why they have such awful products.
Stop linking to that idiot’s video.
You know how when you’re sitting in your house and everything seems perfectly normal? And then the refrigerator compressor shuts off. All of a sudden it’s quiet and peaceful. The drone that your conciousness had subdued, and you no longer noticed, is taken away and you realize how much nicer it is when it is gone, and how much better the home is without it. That’s the cell phone universe before iPhone. Lackluster cell phones are like a droning background sound that we had gotten used to and that we just considered normal. iPhone gave us a taste of the peace that is possible. Anything that reduce the level of techno-agravation in this world is worth $500.
You’re ALL f-ckin’ trolls.
Just shut it.
Hey, “Spark” — Lay off the ganja, man.
” . . . droning background sound that we had gotten used to and that we just considered normal.”
That’s also why hundreds of millions of Windows sufferers have no idea there are better alternatives.
is zune really still 20% of the >$249.00 market?
can we get an update on zunes share of the “MP3 players”?
ChrissyOne, Spark has nailed it more than anyone here.
And Marmocet…?….do you know the meaning of the word troll in this context. I think you need to go elsewhere mate and get a grip.
MDN Magic Word: District
In a recent article in ‘Healthcare Informatics’, Ballmer was asked questions about their role in furthering technology in healthcare. There was no question about Google, but Ballmer couldn’t resist the opportunity to take a dig. He is a dolt!
I won’t let MS near my Mac, and as far away as possible from my healthcare.
Apr 25, 07 – 10:19 am
Not me.
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@ChrissyOne
Mayber your refrigerator is quieter than mine. Substitute “dishwasher”, “vacuum cleaner”, “Ballmer”….pick the drone source of your choice.
yeah really ill have what spark is having
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You know what, MDN? While I’m ever so relieved that my Mac News Experience is now confined to a safe, predictable fixed width, the rest of your major redesign has left me with a distinct feeling of “meh…”
The fact that others like to use my name to post troll shit weighs somewhat heavier on my list of areas to improve.
Color me nonplussed.
-c
@ Spark
I repeat, that wasn’t me. I actually liked your post.
Ballmer quote fromt the video interview: “We’re driving our innovation hard…”
Yeah, but his cart’s being pulled by a Donkey. Specifically an ASS in Ballmer’s case.