UX Confessions of an iPhone and Mac paranoid fanatic
In the Mac and iPhone community recently there was much a debate whether we (iPhone users) are delusional liars and paranoids - according to a report by a consulting firm from Denmark. Well, let me address these allegations and admit... that I might be a little paranoid... and I'm pretty happy with that:
I'm Michael Sliwinski and I'm an entrepreneur who's also the..... Founder of Nozbe.com - a time and project management web application
.. Editor of Productive! Magazine - a global PDF publication on productivity
.. and a blogger as well as a producer of a weekly 2-minute Productive! show.
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Well... it's high time for me to get an iPhone ;-)
Back in the 80s Apple introduced people to computing with a very straightforward computer that people could use at home.
Now it seems like Apple introduced people to mobile "computing" when my mum is checking email and installing apps on her iPhone. UX (User Experience) baby!
I'm astonished right now that BMW and Audi are starting to produce different models and are ditching simplicity and clarity of their offering and going for the quantity... but it's a material for another post.
One thing is the Apple's decision about the lack of multitasking on iphone, agreed! that was a good decision because of limited assets, other thing is to be productive, agreed! concentration is the king, but the last thing is a question: How many applications do you have usually open on your notebook/desktop? Can you imagine that we use computers which are not multi-tasked? The same in the near future will be with all devices also with iPhone :)
As the number of apps increases (in the Appstore 100K+, on our iPhones 3+ screens) I think Apple will address this problem in some elegant way. I'm not saying multitasking will not be present there at all... and you can talk on the phone and open apps actually...
However I still think the beauty of this device is that you don't see all that much on the screen and swipe around to access more info... it's a joy to use... even for people with worsening eye-sight and with thick fingers... and this is where Apple nailed it :-)
I thought I never would get another phone than the iPhone .. but with the androids poping up everywhere and Nokia's plans for the Ovi Store I'm starting to realize maybe I am :-)
I totally agree with you regarding Spotify - it's kinda not fair that the iPod app can play in the background and Spotify (and other music apps for that matter) can't, so I guess Apple will have to solve this in one way or the other (iPhone OS 4.0?)
I've tried the BB Storm and I'm sorry to say that even with version 2, it's still a yucky experience. We're hoping that Verizon will carrying the iPhone next year - I keep hearing rumors about that. Hubby's phone is starting to fail and it looks like 2010 will be the year we'll need to replace both of our personal phone, and it will definitely be the iPhone. Meanwhile, I have an iTouch especially since I need to use productivity tools and there are tons more of these for the iPhone than for BB.
Lola, thanks for your great comment and good luck switching your BBs into iPhones :-)
I agree; other phone manufacturers seem to think "bling" will bring people in. I like the iPhone because I can use it easily for the most part. 3rd party apps bring in tons of extra functionality.
Obviously, it's not perfect. I wish it didn't take so long for applications and updates to applications to show up in the app store. But I'm definitely happier with the iPhone than I was with the Windows Mobile phones I'd had prior.
Thanks for your comment Emuelle1, I too wouldn't want to go back to any Nokia or a Windows Mobile powered device for any price.
