Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 12th Jun 2007 01:16 UTC
When Steve Jobs mentioned a few weeks ago that there will be "some sort of app development" for the iPhone, everyone assumed he meant widgets. Widgets are less powerful than native applications, and depending on the underlying OS hooks offered, they can be even less powerful than J2ME apps. But when Jobs came out today to outright sell us Web 2.0 and said that "no SDK required", I felt cheated.
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2006-01-03
I agree that what they do they do well - and in style, too. But they don't try hard enough to be flexible, and I find their we-know-better-than-thou attitude somewhat up-nosed.
Sure, there's a reason why the iPods don't have fm receivers, and it is surely not usability, but control.
Of course, doing all that is their prerogative, and mine is to whine about it and blow the whistle if I think my opinion should be heard, or that momentum needs to be built up to force them to detour ever so slightly.
The device indeed does not serve my purposes, but that is painful, because it *almost* does, it easily could if they just wanted, and it is a very, very cool device.
As for reverse engineering, I did not need to go that far with my iPod in order to make it vastly more usable: I just started using Rhythmbox instead of Apple's iTunes, and most of the limitations disappeared without touching the device's firmware at all.