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Oh what fun, it is to bash, an iPhone e-very-day! (sung to 'Jingle Bells')
But kidding aside, the iPhone really is easily made fun of from a Pocket PC user perspective. The thing has a slick, slidey interface. WOOT! That's all. Every. Other. Thing. It. Does. Can be done in spades by a PPC with one hand tied behind it's little metaphorical back. And so much more it's laughable! The iPhone is the iPod and the Bic lighter and the Levi jean and the VW Beatle and the bottle of Coke and blah blah blah. It's pretty. So are a thousand other phones.
The one thing I'll grant the iPhone in terms of actual, measurable superiority, is the screen's beauty. They chose an amazingly clear, bright screen, that just works so well in almost any sort of light it's scary. If only we could convince the PPC OEMs to wake up and smell the brilliant screen, iPhone sales would likely slack off quite radically. The screen's prettiness stands out from a country mile.
But no Flash? No YouTube to go with the slick 'unlimited' 3G contract? No Java website access (loads of secure sites rely on Java rather heavily... so it's back to 2001 with PPC's Pocket IE it would seem for the iPhone, at least for banking etc.)? That's just nuts. Last I heard, Adobe were thinking of something like $7 - $10 per device, but then again that wasn't direct from the horse's mouth, so maybe more. Seems even if it were $20 it'd be worth the hit in terms of making users happy, accessing all that nifty bloated multi-media stuff we're all being force fed on practically every second site we visit these days. I've stopped bothering even worrying about alternate site versions for PPC use. Just too irritating. If a site bails, I mail myself the link for later and eventually get around to checking it on a PC, if it still seems relevant, which more often than not it doesn't. Delete. Bye bye.
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Gerard Ivan Samija
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