Why i hate my iPhone 4

Yesterday Apple unveiled the new iPad 2 and the iOS 4.3 upgrade. I think it is time to upgrade the iPhone 4, at least the iOS.
I am an early adapter of the iPhone. I had the 2G, the 3G and since last year the iPhone 4.
In the first week or so I was excited about the phone, the cameras and how fast it is, now i wished the phone would be better.



1. Notifications
The iPhone notifications are still looking like in last century. A simple alert box, no design around. I wished a notification could include images and design to visualize from which app the notification is coming. Like as an example a real twitter tweet.

2. Push notification
Not only they look cheap but the push does not work really well. As an example i see only that there are 15 new updates of my apps when I go into my app store. The push is almost never up to date, what is the problem for Apple to make this working?

3. Camera speed
In the first month or so, when i switched to taking photos the camera opened instantly. Now after 6 months it is as slow as on the 3G. It takes up to 20 seconds till I can take a picture, which made me miss the best moments of my son to capture. My memory has plenty space (2G free), i cleaned and rebooted the iPhone and I made a clean install. Still it is slow. I almost believe it is intentional that i buy me a new one in summer.

4. Mobile me sync
I have multiple Apple devices and all of them have contact and calendar synced through mobile me. But for some reason the sync does work weird. As a result I have some contacts 5 to 10 times. I am always cleaning up and still it happens. Mobile me does not really allow me to have a master where I can delete and all is fine.

5. Again mobile me
I take a lot of pictures and save them in mobile me, but ironic most of the iphone apps i use can't access mobile me to open the photos, which I need to retouch or optimize them.

6. No flash
I never liked flash, but the reality is that still many websites are using flash and I really hate that i can't have flash. Why not having a native plugin which can read and display flash. If you don't like flash (steve) then build your own rendering machine to display flash. The issue is many times not the swf file, it is the engine which renders the swf on screen. Please work on this.

7. Accelerator
Man, how often happens that I have my phone close the my ear and accidentally dial another number or hang up. This was never an issue with the old model

8. Wifi
The iPhone is a beautiful device and so full of technology. But unable to be really smart. As soon i have only 1 wifi bar the phone tries to connect with wifi instead of using 3G. As a result my Internet connection is slow and i have manual to switch wifi off to surf the web. Make it smart, make it that it can use both at the same time and deliver always the fastest access. I don't care if i connected over wifi or 3G, I just want the fastest access as possible. For people who have no unlimited data plan allow them to switch this function off, if you are concerned.

9. Hotspot
Why do i need to pay another $30 if i want to share my iPhone internet with my iPad? Ok it is not really an Apple issue but they should not allow carriers to take our money so easy out of our pocket. This is useless rip off which has not economical sense.

10. Battery life
I am not a heavy user, but why do i need to charge the iPhone every day? I miss the time when i could use my Siemens phone a week before charging.

11. Customization and apps
Who are you? Why do you think you can decide what i do with my iPhone? Why can't I install apps i want, why do you not allow certain apps to be in the app store? Am i not mature enough to know and decide what i want to do with my phone? Even with the risk to break it? There are geeks in the world and they buy Androids because it fits them more. If you are concerned, then have it as an option. Average user could switch the function off to allow only special Apple approved apps and the rest can do what they want. Then you would have millions less users jailbreaking the iPhone and there would be no need for Cyndia.

Unfortunately I will stay with the iPhone, but only because my whole infrastructure is Apple. I still have the hope Apple will listen and consider all this in the new release of iOS and iPhone.

Most of this is even true for the iPad. The iPad biggest issue is syncing with iTunes and iPhoto, it is just messed up.I have so many videos and photos which don't sync from the iPad to iPhoto. I had to buy an extra software to do it manually.



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Google keeps going to add more social

Reuters did publish an article about google's attempt to get their feet deeper into social media.

A lot of experts are speculating that google will come in fall with google.me

It seems almost that we are either painted in google colors or an absolute Apple fan. We don't hear anything anymore about Microsoft in terms of computer, services or mobile phones. Microsoft seems right now be more concentrated on business solutions or XBox and games (btw the Halo release last Tuesday gave us the highest online first person shooter playing ever in the history and people waited 4 hours in line for the midnight release).
If somebody is a google fan, than this person would have android phone, Gmail email account, is using google docs, surfs only with Chrome and does not know any other search engine than googol.com (sorry for the spelling error but googol is actually the right spelling :)).
I am an Apple user and have to admit that at home all my devices are from Apple, I surf the internet with Safari, uses my mobile me for email and do all my writing in pages, numbers or keynote.

Both companies are offering more services but both are not yet good in social. The only difference is that google is reaching 65% of all internet users and apple only 12%.

Google did miss the right time to invest into social and is now trying to run behind the train.
Google is trying to play the big card by saying that Facebook has to open the DB for google search if FB does not want to lose ground. E. Schmidt believes google can get FB data from other sources and it would be wise for Facebook to work with google. For me this is a sign that google believes FB is dangerous for them.

And they better should, if FB gets a market penetration of 65% (I believe right now it is only 29%) then why should we even need google anymore. 10 years ago nobody thought we need just a search page, because portals will be the number one entry point for users. Google showed we were wrong, till now. There is now one big portal called Facebook which is the entry point for most users.
Facebook can eventually replace google for the most part.
The secret of google was their page rank which nobody did before and therefor the search results were much better than competition.
Facebook works with friends, people we know, people we trust. If their search engine would incorporate this methodology then google can lose. More and more companies are using fscebook connect, this gives now FB much more data outside of their user base and still social relevant.

All this combined can give Facebook much more power than google might want.

Reuters:
PARADISE VALLEY, Arizona — Google Inc plans to gradually introduce social-networking features starting this fall, reviving attempts to compete with Facebook after pulling the plug on its stillborn Wave project.
Chief Executive Eric Schmidt told reporters Tuesday the Internet search leader intends to work in "layers" of social networking to its sites, rather than unveil a flashy product. To propel that effort, he intends to sustain its pace of acquisitions.
"We're trying to take Google's core products and add a social component," Schmidt told a select group of reporters at Zeitgeist, a gathering of business partners and high-profile industry figures.
"If you think about it, it's obvious. With your permission, knowing more about who your friends are, we can provide more tailored recommendations. Search quality can get better."
Google has struggled to find the right touch in creating the types of social networking services that have become increasingly hot online.
It declared the demise this year of Wave, a high-profile online communications tool launched last year. And Orkut, its early online social network, has failed to catch on outside of Brazil and India.
Media reports now peg Google as developing a new social networking product — dubbed Google ME — in a bid to take on Facebook, which has more than half a billion users worldwide. Others speculate it might be looking for an acquisition to get into social gaming.
"Everybody has convinced themselves that there's some huge project about to get announced next week. And I can assure you that's not the case," Schmidt said.

Analysts point to recent acquisitions as signs the company is steadily beefing up its social-network capabilities.
The company this year undertook a series of small to mid-sized purchases, including a $182 million deal to take over social networking firm Slide, and a $700 million offer for airline ticketing firm ITA Software Inc.
Schmidt expects the last deal to win regulatory approval. He said the level of scrutiny it has drawn is similar to that for Google's acquisition of Admob, which won a green light.
Analysts have attributed a recent flurry of tech-sector acquisitions to a perception that valuations remain low, a product of a sputtering economy as well as persistent doubts about the strength of the tech sector recovery.
In an exclusive interview with Reuters Tuesday, Schmidt said he did not expect another recession soon, but warned of slow, or even zero, growth over the next few years.
"It's unlikely we'll have a double dip for all the reasons people talked about. A much more likely scenario is slow or no growth for a few years," Schmidt said in the interview.
"High tech is different. High-tech seems to be benefiting from new product cycles, lots of new investments," he added. "So high tech will probably have a different outcome from the average American (consumer)."



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