‘My Top 3 iPhone annoyances’ by an Android devotee
My friend George is an Android fan and hardcore Microsoft devotee. He even owns a pair of Microsoft branded socks (however claims these where a freebie along with a copy of Vista Ultimate from a Microsoft event. Insert your own Sock/Vista joke). However he's sadly just lost his HTC Desire so has been borrowing his girlfriends iPhone 4. This was a ripe opportunity for him to tell me what he didn't like. George, take it away:
I thought I had to tell you about some things I found with it that I not used to, after being with the HTC for a year:
Number 3
I really notice the lack of haptic feedback when pressing buttons. Typing, it's ok, I don't know why but perhaps because the actions are so fast and responsive. But touching a button without getting that little vibration to acknowledge it was strange for me, a bit like trying to press the "buttons" on our ceramic hob.
Number 2:
Every notification that appeared - be it SMS, Twitter update, new Wi-Fi network detected - came up in a modal box. This was very different to android where there is hardly any interruption; messages appear in the top bar and scroll through line by line, but you don't get popups that take away focus. If you're in the middle of a word, you have to retype it, which is odd.
And Number 1:
OK, this is just a re-hash of my normal gripe.... but why couldn't I download Spotify on the App store? I'm in Switzerland, where Swiss users can't legally use Spotify. But it's not like Spotify doesn't check on its servers that if you are trying to log in on a free account, or sign up, from Switzerland, and block it. I am entitled to use it when I'm over here, given I'm from the UK and pay for a premium account, so "what gives"?
Well obviously Number 2 is about to be resolved with iOS 5's new notifications. Hey some might well of picked up on the similarities between Android's notifications and the new Notification Centre in iOS 5, but we couldn't possibly comment.
What do you think? Does Android have the iPhone beaten here?
