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I disagree about YouTube; I love watching video on my iPad. I have no opinion of widgets. And he's completely wrong about multitasking; as an iOS developer an

I disagree about YouTube; I love watching video on my iPad. I have no opinion of widgets. And he's completely wrong about multitasking; as an iOS developer and iOS user I think the iPhone's approach to multitasking is marvellous. Other than that, it's all true (although, my mom seems to think that the iPhone auto-correct is great). I think everyone should own an iOS device. I think the iPhone generally represents the highest-quality hardware and software that's currently available and I often recommend it to people, but it still does not come close to replacing my Blackberry as an email and messaging device, for exactly the reasons he mentioned.

slantyyz 16y ago
My personal view is that the three most interesting phone GUIs are iOS, WebOS and Windows Thingamajiggy 7. They take slightly different, yet opinionated approaches to the smartphone use case. I'm probably going to get flamed for it, but Android's UI to me seems to be lacking a concrete "design opinion", so to speak.
- LordLandon 16y ago
  I'll always take functionality over design. I don't care how many rounded corners a notification has, but I do care about it not demanding my immediate attention, and waiting in line like everything else. If apple designed the most beautiful volume control menu that you've ever seen, would you give it up for hardware volume buttons?
  - slantyyz 16y ago
    Not sure we're talking about the same thing. Don't hardware buttons require design too? I was probably unclear, but I meant design of the user experience, not interface chrome.