Tuesday, February 26, 2008

for those of you with iphones

what (preferably concerning networking) about your iphone frustrates you the most? besides the fact that it's slow. For instance:

  • would you like to be able to take pictures and have them automatically sync with a folder on your computer?
  • cache certain information locally without expressing it explicitly?
  • do you notice your battery draining when you do certain wireless-intensive or GPRS-intensive tasks?

Actually, come to think of it, anyone who uses their phone for more than talking might have ideas. Please let me know! Thanks!

4 comments:

  1. Steve Jobs being an asshole.

    I can't upload images taken on the phone via a form on the Web.

    I can't mount the phone as a USB mass storage device in Linux and copy my music onto it directly.

    I can't easily back up the contacts stored on the phone.

    I would need to re-purchase a song that I already own to make it into a ringtone.

    And so on.

    Apple treats its customers the way that music companies treat their customers. The maddening part is that it's still the best phone that I know of. :-(

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  2. this all sucks. are all these the case even with a hacked phone?

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  3. Probably not. I think you can just SSH to the phone after jailbreaking it and do whatever you want.

    But being in a situation where you're trying to do something that Apple is actively trying to prevent you from doing seems like a recipe for frustration.

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