Apple Over Here<< Mobile Nagging on Network Use | Main | Feedback: Apple Over Here >> IanFogg | December 12, 2007, 12:43 PM Here's a reply to a longterm Mac-owning UK friend of mine, that asked me to advise on mobile phones for personal email usage. He was concerned that the iPhone keyboard would be irritating even after a month's usage, and that the iPhone represented poor value:
Issue is that the touch points are to hard to reach unless the user has large hands, and them they'll probably have large fingers.... No copy and paste is the big one plus the amount of screen space the keypad eats. And stupid compulsory large text size and margins while writing. Re blsckbrry. I think they support both IMAP and pop now. The usage tax isn't so bad: on o2 it is 10ukp a month for "unlimited data" vs 7.50 for equivalent non-black tariff. So just 2.50 premium. But operators are only just realizing that they appeal to consumers so device subsidy and availability not so good (yet) I think this will change. Fcuk it "fixed"my a in realizing. Sorry s (manually overid the auto-correct there). It auto-wronged that letter too. [removed personal paragraph] Cheers, Ian Ps I may blog this text to illustrate what is right and wrong with the iPhone! (strange it can auto correct capitalization in ' iPhone ' butcstill make my English become American, fantastic).
So, Apple has shipped a mobile phone in Europe with only a US dictionary, and with numerous Americanisms spread throughout the UI: "favorites", "London, England", "No service", "Recents" and many other localisation howlers. But, maybe, I'm just guilty of this: "My biggest gripe about Leopard is that, as with any new Apple product, its launch brings out so much whingeing and complaining." But then again, maybe not. |
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