Time to spread some love to Apple. Sure, I’m miffed about how Steve is acting like a spoiled brat, trying to dictate terms to developers, but let’s talk about his products for a moment.
Not since I went out and bought the first Mac 128, have I been totally blown away with a technology, than I am with the iPhone. It truly is a magical device, and continues to amaze each day. I suppose I was lucky in that my first iPhone was the 3GS, and moving from my Verizon LG phone to it is like buying a brand new Kabota. Total awesome piece of technology. When I really stop and think a minute, for me the apps are what really make the iPhone great (certainly NOT AT&T’s service– remember I came from Verizon). One of my favorite iPhone apps is FastFinga, a terrific way to jot notes on the iPhone. It’s sorta like a word processor for bitmap text. Hard to explain, but once you get the hang of it, it becomes the go to app for jotting down anything, in meetings, on the plane, sitting in your car. It’s great! Funny though, FastFinga doesn’t look like a standard iPhone app. Far from it. In fact, this very popular app has real issues conforming to any of the Apple HIG’s for iPhone. As one can see by the picture, it’s very different from any app you’ve probably seen anywhere. I doubt Steve Jobs would approve, and I expect that’s the next shoe to drop: the censor police of the app store will also soon become the fashion police for good taste in interfaces– and cool little apps like FastFinga will suffer. Along with you and I. So, I lied. I guess this wasn’t a total lovefest post for Apple.
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