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Originally Posted by Luca
Well, I was never really that excited about the iPhone, seeing as how I'm very much a "free phone" guy, but these reviews aren't doing anything to change my mind.
Some of the oversights seem just obvious, too. Lack of global search? What happened to spotlight? The iPhone is perfect for Spotlight because it's accessible no matter what you're doing and it lets you jump around from one thing to another. And no copy/paste is rather stupid too.
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Yes, agreed. In a way, as this seems to be the PDA that Jobs derided many years ago, the lack of copy/paste is an oversight. Perhaps v.2 will see it implemented. Missing out on Spotlight is a good observation too - that would have been a perfect integration of OS X technology.
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Originally Posted by Luca
Lack of games + lack of third-party apps would bother me too. I still think it's a bad idea for Apple to lock out third party developers. Outside developers always think of much more clever software. This is especially true of Apple - they have some nice software, but sometimes it seems to me like Apple's software is designed for one particular "ideal" user who does a few prescribed things and nothing else.
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Given Jobs' reputation for being a control freak, I can understand his locking out 3rd party developers at this point. Simply put, there is no way that he would allow 3rd party apps to compromise the user experience at this crucial stage.
Another aspect could be that it takes time to develop and IDE and maybe it was too taxing on resources to have to baby that through to deployment now as well.
Of course, I expect all this to change in the not-too-distant future as I (like many others) can see the iPhone really benefitting from 3rd party development.