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Good Lord, I am agreeing with Eurisko... that warm place might be freezing over :-P
But yeah, seriously I dont think i get this particular post. You dropped your phone, sh!t happens, I had to return my first iPhone after 3 days cause of a faulty headphone jack...
I would take an assumption that you are new to the "modding world". The simple answer is, is that there is always going to be someone who says "wouldn't it be cool if...", and they figure out a way to do it. And chances are that someone such as myself who has no real programming ability outside of batch files, and some light script editing, will have the same idea and benefit from someone elses work.
I've been modding things for a few years now, tweaking and customizing to my own standards because I find that I what I have could be improved, not fixed.
My Motorola L6, in my opinion had to quiet of a volume. Motorola clearly felt that their volume standard was addequate. For my purposes I disagreed. Someone else had the same qualm and came up with the proper HEX and was able to increase the volume (GO M3!), he posted I learned.
My HTC wizard or Cingular 8125, ran windows mobile. Windows mobile 5 through 6 inherently doesn't shut down programs when you close them, it merely minimizes them, the exact opposite of the iPhone that doesn't allow you to background apps. For a while you actually had to buy a program that ran as a daemon to close the damn programs before someone came up with a better way. Can you imagine running 5 apps in the background and not even know about it?
On a 233mhz processor its very counter productive, especially when you have to open up task manager just to close your emai client...
The simple answer really is that what you might find important (landscape messaging, MMS etc) might not be intersting to me. I prefer backrounding, copypasta, and more system tweaks.
Motorola, HTC, Microsoft, Apple, they all have their priorities, they all have to sort of guess what they should include and what they shouldn't. Your simply not going to make everyone happy. In many cases its like hindsight, "i didnt think anyone would care about that...".
The ability to turn off corrective spelling was initially a mod, but is now a standard feature.
Yes, the modmyiphone community is large, but but small if you compare how many people own an iPhone to how many actually mod it. Out of 4 iPhone users in my group, I am the only one who cared to mod.
That's a 25% ratio, meaning 75% are satisfied enough with their phones not to care to improve it.
What I honestly don't get is how you go from saying you want to go back to your Nokia roots, and then you go on to say that you are preparing to by another 3g...
Look, the iPhone is a great phone, Apple is a great company, and their products are top quality. They are designed for ease of use. Other then the common gripe of the keyboard being tricky getting used to, this phone is so retarded simple, that there is nothing to it. What is so difficult about it?
To answer your final question, "where would I be without the dev team?"
Unlike Eurisko I do hold them at high esteem, I generally purchase a phone based upon the community of modders. If you noticed all my phones I mentioned, Motorolla, HTC, iPhone, all have a large modding community as compared to say, RIM, or Nokia, or Samsung. I know that eventually somewhere along the lines with any device I own that something is going to nag me about it. Like sitting at home all day long, you start to nit pick at the things that you normally never notice.
In my daily usage with my phone, something might come up, and not function in a manner how I think it should. Like backgrounding an app. I understand why backgrounding is not part of the package. Because generally speaking those 75% non modders that I mentioned above wouldn't get it (backgrounding) and wind up locking their phones and getting pissed off, blame apple, and then return their phones and stop buying them.
Modders get (or hopefully get) that you really should only background 1 or 2 things at a time or else everything will crash.
So the reason a feature like that ISN'T included is because it would ruin the so-called iPhone experience...
Annoying yes, but wrong or broken or needing to be fixed? Not at all. Mistake? A mistake would be shipping a phone that touts a great touch keyboard that out of the box doesn't work.
Remember, 75% of users are impatient, instant gratification seeking, individuals who don't care to learn how something works. They think that they should turn on a computer for the first time and right a symphony.
That's why OS X is great. You have a ton of hardware resources, an OS that is idiot proof that wont let you screw yourself. It is limited in it's choices so you the user don't screw it up.
Same way with the iPhone. It's simple to absurdity. By itself, it works adequalty, produces enough bells and whistles to keep people occupied, and not notice and nit pick as much.
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01-28-2009, 06:47 AM
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