Benderoff: iPhone pickiness Sep17 '07
I find Chicago Tribune columnist Eric Benderoff's "10 Things I Hate about the iPhone" to be a bit picky and unreasonable:
It froze twice during the first week and several times since. It can be quickly unfrozen, but it's still annoying.
It's running OS X. Correct me if I'm wrong, but are there current mobile devices running XP or Vista? If so, those devices would probably freeze occasionally, too.
The touch screen can be too sensitive. Accidental finger swipes are common when surfing the Web.
Practice makes perfect, my friend. This is just downright picky.
From my wife: "Doesn't Apple realize there are two genders?" Fingernails do not work on the touch screen; only fingertips. She's keeping her BlackBerry.
Fingernails? If this isn't being picky, I don't know what is.
I can't use the iPhone to listen to music in my car, where the stereo has an iPod connector. Likewise, the iPhone won't work as an iPod in the majority of third-party listening devices. Work-arounds are being developed.
The first part is a legitimate argument. The iPhone has a recessed headphone port that only connects with Apple manufactured headphones. Custom accessories have been designed to correct this problem, but it's annoying indeed.
An adapter is needed for third-party headphones in the reconfigured headphone slot. This is especially frustrating if you own nice headphones for your digital music player.
Yeah, this is the same point just made above.
I want more storage. Eight gigabytes is not enough. A movie takes roughly 2 gb of space, for instance.
This complaint is device independent. It has nothing to do with the iPhone itself. And Apple will surely offer larger capacity models in the future.
Where are the games? If the iPod has fun games, why doesn't my iPhone? (Yes, I know third parties are making some.)
Games?? Buy a Nintendo DS if you want portable games.
The camera is average and you can't shoot video -- a feature that's becoming standard even on free camera phones.
Name a mobile device that has an "above average" camera. And the lack of a video recorder is not the end of the world.
The Edge network is painfully slow for the iPhone's fun features, such as the dedicated YouTube channel. Unless you're using the iPhone in a Wi-Fi zone, much of the Web experience is frustrating. Hence, mobile Web use on smart phones that utilize faster 3G networks is superior to the iPhone.
That's AT&T's fault, not the iPhone. Just because the iPhone is perhaps generations ahead of other phones, it doesn't mean it should wait until networks support it. Networks are now rushing to support it, eventually making this a non-issue.
For a phone with a great music player, why can't I use stereo-enabled Bluetooth headphones? Because Apple didn't include a stereo profile for Bluetooth, a big oversight. (There's a Bluetooth profile for an earpiece and it does work well.)
Legitimate, fine. If you must bring up this tiny little point, so be it.
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