Having experience from a resistive touchscreen smartphone (Sony Ericsson P800), I was exactly like this guy. It wasn’t as bad as pocketpc because at least they put some thought in designing a “touchable” UI and didn’t assume that the user is always using a stylus like on pocketpc, but typing on the keyboard fucking sucked for any word with more than 3 letters.
Then, one day, in an electronics store they had a kiosk with the iPod touch (Apple skipped the iPhone 2g in my country) and I tried it with superiority “let’s see how the typing experience fucking sucks”.
For the first minute I was like a monkey. Unable to type anything. My experience with resistive touchscreens condutioned me to touch the screen with the tip of the nails, so the presses didn’t register.
Then I realized that I could just touch the screen with the finger. My mind was blown. I HAD to buy it, I bought it on the spot, without any research. I even bought a Philips alarm clock with the iPod dock. Spent too much money that day.
And from that day I started to hate Apple with passion. The demo unit had the email client installed so I justified myself “well at least I can read emails on this on WiFi, it’s not only for music and playing the Happy Orange game” but the fucking assholes put that behind a 18 euro DLC. And the assholes even charged for iOS updates! They had the courage to ask me 8 euro to update to iOS 3! The worst part were all the fanboys on the forums defending Apple saying that they were forced by some obscure American law, because being sold a “music listening device” it would have been illegal for them to give free software updates and they HAD to charge the customers. (???)
Having experience from a resistive touchscreen smartphone (Sony Ericsson P800), I was exactly like this guy. It wasn’t as bad as pocketpc because at least they put some thought in designing a “touchable” UI and didn’t assume that the user is always using a stylus like on pocketpc, but typing on the keyboard fucking sucked for any word with more than 3 letters.
Then, one day, in an electronics store they had a kiosk with the iPod touch (Apple skipped the iPhone 2g in my country) and I tried it with superiority “let’s see how the typing experience fucking sucks”.
For the first minute I was like a monkey. Unable to type anything. My experience with resistive touchscreens condutioned me to touch the screen with the tip of the nails, so the presses didn’t register.
Then I realized that I could just touch the screen with the finger. My mind was blown. I HAD to buy it, I bought it on the spot, without any research. I even bought a Philips alarm clock with the iPod dock. Spent too much money that day.
And from that day I started to hate Apple with passion. The demo unit had the email client installed so I justified myself “well at least I can read emails on this on WiFi, it’s not only for music and playing the Happy Orange game” but the fucking assholes put that behind a 18 euro DLC. And the assholes even charged for iOS updates! They had the courage to ask me 8 euro to update to iOS 3! The worst part were all the fanboys on the forums defending Apple saying that they were forced by some obscure American law, because being sold a “music listening device” it would have been illegal for them to give free software updates and they HAD to charge the customers. (???)