Re: [NTLK] Google Switch?

On Jan 19, 2007, at 1:54 PM, Ed Kummel wrote:

> Yeah, and along with the iPhone, it's really not so revolutionary
> when you consider this phone:
> http://www.mobileburn.com/review.jsp?Page=1&Id=547
> does everything the iPhone does (except for dual finger sensor)
> and it did it all back in 2003....so who is copying whom?

The point is not "it can do all this stuff" but that Apple has,
seemingly, packaged it all in a way that makes it easy to use all the
capabilities.
Many phones can do lots and lots of things but their UI's are so
unusable that most people barely use the phone capabilities.
As Jobs noted in the keynote many people simply use their recent
calls as the phone book because using and calling people in their
contact lists is so tedious.

This is a pretty decent run down on what Tog figures is right and
wrong with the iPhone <http://www.asktog.com/columns/
070iPhoneFirstLook.html>

Apple has simply made what already exists very usable, just as they
did with the Macintosh nearly 25 years ago

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