No iPhone version 1 for me
Posted by Michael Fri, 12 Jan 2007 12:58:23 GMT
I’m as excited as the next guy about some of the things introduced with the now famous iPhone introduction in the Macworld 2007 keynote. There are two (maybe 2 and 1/2 if you count having to switch to Cingular) reasons I wont have the version that Steve Jobs introduced:
1. No Keyboard
Keyboards are essential to what business users are using their phones for - email.
I have an aging Treo 650 which has BOTH the touch interface and the keyboard. You use your fingers on the Treo to press the virtual keypad on the screen when dialing phone numbers. My accuracy rate for hitting the flat button is probably about 50% in a 10 digit number. So if I dial 703-555-1212 10 times, I’ll get all 10 digits correct half the time. Can you imagine typing emails with that kind of accuracy?
Most Treo/Blackberry/etc users type hundreds of emails a week on their devices. They bought the thing BECAUSE it has a keyboard.
2. No Third Party Apps(See here)
The #1 reason for my Treo over Blackberry choice was the thousands of third party apps for Palm devices. I have 10 which I simply cannot live without.Apple, can you say TomTom?
As an open source and Apple developer, this to me is just incredulous. What’s the point of having OS X on the thing if I can’t put my OS X apps on it?
The answer: marketing hype.
So close, yet so, so far away.
