Monday
Jul092007
Why The iPhone Seems Unfinished
Monday, July 9, 2007 at 10:58PM
Listening to TWIT today and Leo Laporte was bashing the iPhone again (but in the nicest way possible!).
The lack of 3rd party apps and the as of yet unreleased SDK still seems to irk but understandably so. Most of the reasons why this is so and the explaination as to why Apple has handled this so badly is spelt out by Wil Shipley
Two other items were brought up eluding to the feeling that the iPhone was "unfinished" and these were the lack of sync for the iPhone notes application and the absence of a to-do list.
It's quite simple really, and I will personally guarantee Apple will be releasing these unfinished components in October 2007!
They are both elements of the new Mail.app to be released in Leopard and Apple have gone on record and demonstrated them back in the 2006 WWDC keynote.
Now remember that the iPhone and Leopard were both to be released in Spring 2007 but Leopard slipped back to October. Obviously, the integration between iPhone and Leopard is extremely tightly knitted and by moving Leopard back, Apple needed to de-couple some of the integration. I would imagine that the notes component proved too difficult to remove from the iPhone and conversely, the to-do functionality is too dependant on Mail in Leopard to have it as a standalone app on the iPhone.
So we have a compromise and a seemingly unfinished iPhone.
Not log to wait until October when notes and to-dos will become the full monty together with other Leopard integration we know nothing about!
At least you guys over in the US can play with it in its "unfinished" form ;-(
The lack of 3rd party apps and the as of yet unreleased SDK still seems to irk but understandably so. Most of the reasons why this is so and the explaination as to why Apple has handled this so badly is spelt out by Wil Shipley
Two other items were brought up eluding to the feeling that the iPhone was "unfinished" and these were the lack of sync for the iPhone notes application and the absence of a to-do list.
It's quite simple really, and I will personally guarantee Apple will be releasing these unfinished components in October 2007!
They are both elements of the new Mail.app to be released in Leopard and Apple have gone on record and demonstrated them back in the 2006 WWDC keynote.
Now remember that the iPhone and Leopard were both to be released in Spring 2007 but Leopard slipped back to October. Obviously, the integration between iPhone and Leopard is extremely tightly knitted and by moving Leopard back, Apple needed to de-couple some of the integration. I would imagine that the notes component proved too difficult to remove from the iPhone and conversely, the to-do functionality is too dependant on Mail in Leopard to have it as a standalone app on the iPhone.
So we have a compromise and a seemingly unfinished iPhone.
Not log to wait until October when notes and to-dos will become the full monty together with other Leopard integration we know nothing about!
At least you guys over in the US can play with it in its "unfinished" form ;-(
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