Monday, August 23, 2010
iPhone Vs Andriod
I have an iPhone. You probably do too.
It seems that Apple's attempt to win over business users from Blackberry, iPAQ, et al has been successful. And not without good reason either. Quality construction, user-friendly interface,lovely screen - the reasons are numerous.
My son was showing me his new Google Nexus Andriod-driven phone, and I was VERY impressed. Considerably faster than my iPhone, more apps pre-installed, and something that had not occurred to me before - a more commercial interface.
Why is this important?
Probably my one pet hate about my iPhone is the way it refuses to display my Outlook contact details in company name order. I can choose between Firstname then Lastname, or the other way around, but not by company. This is very confusing if I have multiple people with the same name working for different companies. For example, David appears 27 times in my contacts list! I have no idea which David belongs to the particular company contact I am needing to call unless I open up the record.
Time-consuming.
Inconvenient.
Painful.
Will my next phone be something other than an Apple product? Right now it's hard to tell. I LOVE the quality of the Apple build, but as my contacts list grows, the inconvenience is increasing. Apple have a well-earned reputation of thinking about how the consumer will use their products, so come on Steve, time to make business users happy.
It seems that Apple's attempt to win over business users from Blackberry, iPAQ, et al has been successful. And not without good reason either. Quality construction, user-friendly interface,lovely screen - the reasons are numerous.
My son was showing me his new Google Nexus Andriod-driven phone, and I was VERY impressed. Considerably faster than my iPhone, more apps pre-installed, and something that had not occurred to me before - a more commercial interface.
Why is this important?
Probably my one pet hate about my iPhone is the way it refuses to display my Outlook contact details in company name order. I can choose between Firstname then Lastname, or the other way around, but not by company. This is very confusing if I have multiple people with the same name working for different companies. For example, David appears 27 times in my contacts list! I have no idea which David belongs to the particular company contact I am needing to call unless I open up the record.
Time-consuming.
Inconvenient.
Painful.
Will my next phone be something other than an Apple product? Right now it's hard to tell. I LOVE the quality of the Apple build, but as my contacts list grows, the inconvenience is increasing. Apple have a well-earned reputation of thinking about how the consumer will use their products, so come on Steve, time to make business users happy.
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