I Love the iPhone
January 9, 2009
Yesterday’s I Hate the iPhone piece got a lot of people upset at me yesterday. What they didn’t understand is that this is a three part series of articles. Yesterday’s was I Hate the iPhone, today’s is I Love the iPhone, and tomorrow’s is Let’s Fix the iPhone.
I love the iPhone. I love how I can access my voicemail one by one without having to listen to all of them. I love how I have my entire iPod with me in my phone at all times. I love how many amazing apps there are on the app store. I love the virtual keyboard, it is by far the best keyboard I’ve ever used. I love the calendar on the iPhone. I love the how its amazing browser can let me find anything I want wherever I am. I love my email on the phone… everything looks just like my computer. I love multi-touch. I love how great the camera is in good lighting. I love the 3.5 mm headphone jack. I love how the phone shuts off when you bring it to your ear. I love how the music fades when you answer a call, and comes back when its finished. I love how the icons wiggle and let you change them around. I love scrolling. I love GPS. I love having Facebook on my phone wherever I am. I love Youtube on the iPhone… it works great. I love Google Maps and Google Earth. I love drinking virtual beer. I love having stocks and weather with me anywhere. I love how amazing of an alarm clock it has. I love the scientific calculator. I love the App Store’s graphing calculator. I love the remote app, and the keynote remote app. I love sliding to unlock it. I love the volume rocker on the side. I love being able to turn off all my system sounds by flicking the silent/ringer switch. I love how it feels in my hand. I love the mobile iTunes store, especially now over 3G. I love what NetShare can do. I love cover flow in the iPod. I love watching movies on it in an airplane or car. I love Rolando. I love The Price is Right. I love Shazam. I love AIM. I love AOL Radio. I love Scrabble. I love Crash Kart. I love Ace Tennis. I love Flixster. I love Flick Bowling. I love Papi anything. I love Field Runners. I love iLightr. I love how cheap the phone is. I love how easy it is to dial a number. I love how easy it is to start a conference call. I love having unlimited data. I love how fast 3G is!
Imagine what Apple can do for the next iPhone…
I think you’re reaching on some of these. The virtual keyboard is okay, but typing is a bit slow and it’s too easy to hit the wrong key. It’s nicely done and it’s convenient, but I don’t do a lot of messaging on my iPhone. You love the headphone jack? How can anyone love a headphone jack? However, I like a lot of the same things you like: the interface, the convenience and some of the apps (maybe a lot of the apps).
Jon: Keep plugging away on that iPhone virtual keyboard and you’ll come to love it … probably sooner rather than later.