| Rod Speed 2007-06-28, 10:33 pm |
| tony < spacemarine@mailinat
or.com> wrote
> Rod Speed <rod.speed....@gmail.com> wrote
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> and yet, there were so many piss poor implementations of those few controls, until apple.
What I said in the bit you chose to delete from the quoting. Here it is again.
> and the ipod design is rather elegant and well done in that regard.
And its not relevant to that claim about the market in a similar
state that I was clearly commenting on there, in more that
you deleted from the quoting and I have restored at the top.
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> i have never had a media player on any of my cellphones, first one in 1999.
I wasnt talking about media players in cellphones there.
> my phones continue to be small, cluttered, difficult
> to use devices that often leave me frustrated.
There's plenty that arent, most obviously with the Nokias that do have a decent UI.
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> and w/ those implementations, most (like previous mp3 players) suck.
No they dont, particularly the Nokias.
> there is a definite market for easy-to-use devices.
Yes, but the iphone isnt the only one of those,
its in fact very late to market with one that is that.
> the functionality neednt be new, but the implementation thereof does.
Pity that that isnt new either. Its just a bit better on the touch
screen side. There's plenty of other touchscreens out there now.
And its significantly worse in some areas like using the XXXXed AT&T EDGE
network too. Most of the rest are GSM 3G network, where they should all be.
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