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Originally Posted by raygunpk
it will sell like wildfire because of the brand alone. i remember a lot of articles bashing the ipod when it first came out, and look how that turned out. same with the iphone.
i still dislike apple, but they market very effectively.
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They also pay a lot of attention to detail, to fit and finish, and to the interface, making it very friendly and very solid. I have yet to try an MP3 player where the controls are as smooth and reliable as the iPod clickwheel. I've abused iPod Nanos and Minis in unbelievable fashion and they not only still work, but they hardly show any scars.
I've had a couple of different Windows Mobile phones now, and as much as I love the hackability and expandability of them, none of them have managed to keep up with my friends' iPhones for how slick they operate. The iPhone interface, at least every time I've used it, is smooth and responsive and I've never had a "missed touch".
My Omnia's touch, on the other hand, is great when it works... but too often I try to do a "swipe" and it reads "tap"... or I want to to do a "tap" but I have to "tap and hold" before it will respond. It has a tap-and-drag to zoom feature on some apps, but that too, is iffy at times - when it works properly, it's great, but sometimes it lags or is non-responsive. Everytime I've used an iPhone, the zoom and scroll and swipe functions... just work.
And for my hands at least, the iPhone's screen size, and correspondingly the on-screen keyboard size, is just about the ideal meeting point of compactness and usability - I have yet to find a keyboard for my Omnia that doesn't give me "rollover" problems with my fat thumbs, while the iPhone's are just big enough without making the phone too big.
This is really Apple's forte - not as much being on the bleeding edge, but putting a nice smooth blade protector on it
