Comments on: iPhone OS 4.0 is Underwhelming

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 21:49:42 +0000

The Droid over is an awesome phone. Especially for a newcomer to the phone market, it's doing an awesome job. I love to see the underdog rise up and really win, but in this case it's really not going to happen. At least not for a long time. It just makes so much sense that the most popular phone has more money to dump into a phone to make it great. Regardless if two phones can do the same thing, or the one of those phones could do it first, if the other can do it a lot better, then that phone is ultimately the winner. Apple seems slow and releasing their technology but it's basically a strategy that allows more money to come in with each new device and the most development possible to make it as good as possible. They know exactly what they are doing. I was never a fan boy type, except for early nintendo/super nintendo but honestly even though droid has promise doesn't say much besides that. It's always good to have competition but that will just drive the one that is further ahead to try harder to stay ahead. Apple I feel will do that. Same way Nintendo does with their competition. Based on a subjective experience one might have that other systems are better, Nintendo will almost always sell more and be used by more people. They just have the upper hand.

With that, that doesn't mean the other competitors are bad because they really do have some awesome stuff but that's it really.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 14:49:42 +0000

By: Jj19

Jj19 — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 21:37:46 +0000

I have a droid, and at least my gf's iPhone doesn't freeze/crash almost constantly and everything she does takes about a third of the time, I don't like the iPhone but at least it works well and has an intuitive ui, that's all I'm sayin…

By: mike del monte

mike del monte — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 01:56:49 +0000

but see what you morons dont understand is…. apple is doing in it a way so when you have many apps open it does not LAGG your phone like your droid does!!!!!! yes droid DOES!!! LAGG!!!! WHEN YOU GOT MANY APPS OPEN!!! with API its gonna keep the iphone from lagging!!!! none of you seem to understand why apple has made the phone to only do one app at a time because it causes instability in the phone…
so when us iphonee users have 20 apps open.. we wont need the app killer pro like DROID DOES!!!!!

By: chris

chris — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 05:12:08 +0000

multi tasking? droid came with that built in. email inbox? droid came with that built in. folders. droid also came with that built in. ibooks? droid has many apps on the market for that and alot of them r free. game center? droid has games on the market and emulators. something iphone doesnt have. looks like iphone still has alot of work to do to b as good as the droid

By: Tek720

Tek720 — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 01:54:54 +0000

Ok, Ok,
I'll put multitasking to rest.
It is a common saying among sales people "The Customer is always Right".
This was true 100 years ago, when understanding technology wasn't reserved for engineers and technicians.
Pretty much every one could fix their water wheel or steam engine.
In the modern era there is a rift between what you want and what engineers give you.
You want multi-tasking, Apple wants their products functioning perfectly for end users (especially you grandma and grandpa).
I've had hand held computers since the Newton. Hell my original Palm Pilot was the best TV remote I ever owned. I even had the cell phone attachment for it. My Ipaq had extensive multi-tasking in windows mobile (as well as printing and voip). I could go on, most features in todays smart phones have been available for years in one form or an other.
Which brings me to my point, my 3gs gets a reboot maybe once every two months. I have NEVER had it crash (or freeze). How is this possible? Apple has a method to their madness, all they care about is that every single time you use your Apple product it works.
The Ipaq got a boot maybe 10- 20 times a day (this was normal) and don't even get me started on Palm OS (DragonBall).
You can belly ache all day, the customer is always right, right?
NO, unless you are an accomplished computer science engineer you technically have no idea what your demanding.
The bulk of their market is not tech savvy at all. That is how they sell Millions of units of almost any product they produce, you turn it on and it goes (except Newton's, LOL).
I am not for or against any brand of smart phone technology, I am a technician, I like anything I don't have to fix or futz with (cause thats all I do at work).
Steve Jobs is defiantly crazy, but if it wasn't for him we wouldn't have widely accepted Top Down Engineering and 10-20 year development cycles.
If you were an CEO at Motorola and you said "I can make the wolds best ______", phase one research will complete in 8 years". Guess what, your fired.
I think I've ranted enough, Hope you've enjoyed my perspective.
Cheers
Tek720

By: Alex Butler

Alex Butler — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 11:23:31 +0000

iPhones finally get home screen wallpapers, and Android's already moved on to live wallpapers.

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 23:48:59 +0000

You call that multi-tasking? 7 "API"s, no communication apps [so no eBuddy, Twitter, or anything like that in the background.... yeah... nice job Apple, you really know how to leave out important things]

There are only 2 things that Apple has done right for their iPhone [one thing confirmed and one thing rumored]. Those two things are the Game Center, and the second is a forward facing.

However the second thing is a mute point because it looks like Android beat them to it. And on top of that... quite frankly... I don't use video chat as it is at home. I don't see the point of a mobile video chat, UNLESS you are a business executive that travels a lot, and need it to attend meetings and where they would need to see you and you see them. However, most people like that would have a laptop or netbook that could do the same and with a bigger screen. Only use is if you are en route somewhere and have a meeting like I just mentioned. But really... how often does that happen? and how many people need that? Nice feature, but pretty useless, like all Apple products [except their computers].

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 23:38:35 +0000

Fact: Google is taking over the world. I bet if they wanted to, They could build an army of machines, loyal followers and nerds and geeks who would be willing to fight for them.

Moral of they story, don't mess with Google, they will be our overload and master one day...

By: takeshi

takeshi — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 20:14:53 +0000

Technical merit doesn't ensure market success. iPhone OS 4 will do well despite all this criticism.

By: carl

carl — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 09:23:15 +0000

compare with Droid, Iphone is like a bimbo who learns new things slowly. it takes her years to learn multi-tasking. but she did not learn it well so she can only do it in limited bases, and she finally learns how to create folder. the plus side is that she know all many kinds of games for you to play with… so in a way, she is not much useful, other than sleep and having fun with

By: The Geek Whisperer

The Geek Whisperer — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 08:46:48 +0000

The multi-tasking is a step in the right direction.

The Game Center is cool.

And I'm still puzzled by the presence of folders on the "tent-pole" feature list. If that's a tent-pole feature I can only imagine how underwhelming the unnamed improvements are going to be.

By: Wilson

Wilson — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 08:05:10 +0000

I'm a Droid user. No doubt in my mind its one of the best phones in the market to date. I came from the Blackberry Curve which was a huge upgrade. I woke up at 10 AM excited to see what Apple had in store for the 4.0. I'll have to admit, most of the things that Jobs said were attacking other companies such as Google, Adobe and etc. Well... good for you Steve Jobs in generating so much capital for Apple and creating such a unique system for Apple. Still.. cant be that I'm super impressed with this 4.0

Multitasking has been around for quite awhile. Android has had that ability for quite sometime. Nice job catching up. iAds is interesting but i can still say, I'm not a fan of ads. But great way to generate even more money Apple. More games and folders. The folders capabilities is pretty cool just because it allows iPhone users to have more apps on their phones. Pretty dope but still. EHHHHH....

In the end, the Droid still beats it in my book. You can do anything on the droid and then some. The only thing thats better with the iPhone is the apps and all the companies that support the iPhone. Just wait for all the companies to support Google's Android.

Open source is the greatest door opened. Thank you Google. If you can take on China and withdraw, you can do anything.

By: pdash

pdash — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 06:24:41 +0000

that looks like a great way to handling multi tasking

By: gadgetman

gadgetman — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 05:56:21 +0000

Apple and the fanboys make me laugh they seem to think the iphone is the first of its kind, i had my first pda back in 2000 it was windows mobile and guess what it had media player, internet browser office etc, it was brill. I latter had upgrades all the way up to windows mobile 6.1, with all them devices i could use internet watch movies listen to music play games, everything the i phone can do and more. so with that said why is it apple and the fanboys out there insist on saying the iphone changed the world and is the most advanced smartphone in the world etc, when it did not come out till 2007 and had less functions, what i think is it looks really nice thats it. same as the ipad came out this year but i remeber haveing tablet pc's aroud 2001 and yes they had a fully functional os. what is apple gonna claim to invent next VHS.