iPhone 3 - Beginning of the End

[snousle]

I had really admired the iPhone for its simple design, snappy performance, and resistance to feature creep. With version 3.0 of the software, this promising start seems to have gone off the rails.

The omission of cut and paste was among the most courageous decisions I'd seen in any software system, and as I had predicted, this new "feature" is intrusive and a general pain in the ass. All my reflexes have become wrong - any lingering finger brings up an unwanted selection box. The size of the screen makes it very hard to adjust the selection box with accuracy anyway. And the pop-up menus are always appearing when I don't want them. Verdict: Still better off without it.

The phone now has a habit of freezing at arbitrary moments. It NEVER did this before, and now it does it all the time. FAIL.

Sorry, Apple. You started out on the right foot. But this is a step backwards. The beginning of the end. And the performance problems seem very obviously a move to drive customers to newer, faster, more profitable hardware. All you have done is ensure that my next phone will be something else.

Is it too late to downgrade?

Comments

[wolfstoy.livejournal.com]

I've had no such problems, though I just have an iPod. The fact that I have the ability to open a page in a new window now makes this device much more usable for me.

[snousle.livejournal.com]

Yes, that's one thing that is very nice!