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Fuzzy Logic iPhone, oh iPhone: 17 days to HERO – or zero.
Fuzzy Logic iPhone, oh iPhone: 17 days to HERO – or zero. | iPhone, oh iPhone: 17 days to HERO – or zero. |
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| Technology feature - iPhone | |
| by Alex Zaharov-Reutt | |
| Tuesday, 12 June 2007 | |
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The iPhone still looks to be the easiest-to-use phone we’ve ever seen, something we feel confident we could place in the hands of our mother and with only a few minutes of tuition, have her use the iPhone like a pro. We look forward to testing out our hypothesis, but if it turns out to be true, the iPhone will represent a true leap forward in absolute ease of use for human beings. Of course, Macs crash, and things go wrong. Apple Even iPods can occasionally crash, my 1st-gen iPod nano would occasionally do so after being switched on – the first track would skip, then all would skip, then the unit would spontaneously reboot. But not long after buying it, an iPod firmware update appeared. After installing it, the bug disappeared. If the iPhone does encounter such episodes there will no doubt be firmware updates out of Apple pronto to restore the iPhone to its pristine state of operational purity. At least, we can be pretty sure that’s part of the plan. The Web 2.0 apps that developers can create today won’t, in theory, be able to breach the iPhone’s inner peace and harmony, ensuring that if there are any iPhone problems, they weren’t caused by third party developers. And let’s not forget, we are dealing with iPhone 1.0. Even though Jobs touts it as five years ahead of the competition, firmware updates and new software from Apple and third parties will improve the iPhone’s capabilities bit by bit. Apple will see how the iPhone ecosystem evolves, and if Jobs feels the time is right, could release an iPhone SDK to developers in the future – heck, he might do it at next year’s WWDC. Who knows, an iPhone 2.0 might be released then too. As with Apple, it’s wise to expect the unexpected. With 290 features Jobs didn’t talk about in Leopard, with most of those likely ‘switched on’ in the ‘near-final’ beta release of OS X 10.5 to developers yesterday, there’s every chance Jobs still has a few ‘one more things’ to announce about Leopard when it launches in October. Indeed, who doesn’t expect there’s still at least one big feature, if not several, about the iPhone that we won’t discover until announced by Jobs on June 29, some time before the 6pm start of US iPhone sales? After the failure of the Newton, and then the phenomenally successful iPod product line, the iPhone stands ready to be the tipping point that finally brings desktop-powered mobile computing, iPod music and video, push email and better-than-desktop quality Internet access to the masses, in what will literally be the most ‘touching’ handheld device ever created. So, what is the iPhone's mission in life then? It's mission is to touch the hearts and minds of its users, and do so as nothing else has before it - as has already happened from the moment it was unveiled. Last words… some fear the iPhone’s keyboard will be fiddly to use - even Apple's iPhone VP fumbled on stage, laughing it off as nervous shaking. The potential failing of the iPhone's keyboard - we won't know until June 29 and in the days thereafter - reminds us of the original Motorola RAZR. Here was a device that touched the hearts of users, until users had to use its dreary operating system. It’s right there that some RAZR users lost their minds trying to use it. Let’s just hope that the iPhone’s keyboard proves to be as intuitively easy to use, and as accurate, as the rest of the iPhone’s interface clearly will be to operate. The iPhone's success as a true next-gen mobile Internet device depends on it.{moscomment}
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