Comments on: Walt Mossberg Proves iPhone’s Backwardness

By: Rico Mossesgeld

Rico Mossesgeld — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:42:29 +0000

That’s a great analogy. I will agree with you that Apple does a very good job with UIs. They really know their usability, and it shows even on the company website. I’m sure how they’ll implement MMS and copy & paste will be very intuitive. Yet as a long-time Nokia user, I can tell you that I’ve had no problems with copy & paste (at least on my E63) and definitely not with MMS. And arranging messages by conversation first came out on the Treo!

By: Ron

Ron — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 02:35:34 +0000

This is a completely invalid criticism. BMW has only recently added adaptive headlamps to cars. A feature which was available in the 1950’s.

A whole host of phones were available before the iPhone with some features not available in the first iPhone OS release. The point is they were all rubbish. MMS was used only by a small percentage of mobile users as it was horribly implemented on most phones.

Copy and Paste on most phones never worked between applications. Indeed, you could rarely copy and pate anything useful. Apple delivers features when a consistent UI and technical implementation for a feature can be agreed rather than throwing features in which are poorly implemented. A good example of this is the superior chat-based UI for SMS on the iPhone, compared to the old time sequenced lists provided on Nokia and Sony Ericsson phones. No comparison.

Further, Apple provide users with the ability to gain all of these new features without buying a new phone! On simply purchases the version 3.0 update, and viola! With the iPhone, you are not stuck with an old brick once these features are available.

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Sat, 06 Jun 2009 19:09:54 +0000

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