On 7/27/11 7:51 PM, Chipp Walters wrote:
Warning: Those for which Apple can do no wrong should press delete and move on to the next thread. You've been warned!
Well, that's pretty much me. For the desktop OS anyway. I'm getting more broadminded in my old age though.
Fact is, there are so many interface problems with iOS, I don't even know were to start.
Yeah. I feel like a traitor, but I am less than enchanted with iOS. Apple, who used to be the master of intuitive interface, has dumbed down iOS so much that I can't find anything. Last night I wanted to add a bookmark to Safari and I had to look up how to do it in the user manual -- there was no intuitive way. If you want to add a bookmark, wouldn't you naturally tap on the bookmark icon and look for a command in there? No, to add a bookmark you tap on the Export icon, the same one that lets you save stuff or email a link. Silly me, expecting bookmark functions to be under a Bookmark icon.
What I miss most are menus. All Android apps have a Home, Menu, and Back button, and they always do the same things. iOS apps are capricious and arbitrary with no consistency. The iOS Calendar has almost no interface at all -- or if it does, Apple has managed to hide it successfully from me. So it's back to the user manual. Aha. To link to an online calendar, you do not open the button named "Calendars." No, no, that would be too obvious. You exit the app and go to system settings, hunt for Calendar in the list, work your way through a few screens, and set it there.
I have read more Apple documentation in the last 2 months than I have in the last ten years. Maybe I'm just too entrenched in old habits, maybe it's intuitive to new users.
My iPad is a gorgeous machine with breathtakingly beautiful apps, it is faster (though much heavier) than my cheapie Android tablet and works more reliably in iffy wi-fi situations. But in spite of my Android's hiccups and performance issues, I still choose it when I want to actually use a tablet for something other than testing.
About the ebook restrictions: the online media has been jumping all over that the last couple of days. Everybody is about as PO'ed as you are.
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