Comments on: My iPhone Epiphany: Why “Perfect” is the Enemy of “Good Enough” http://www.geardiary.com/2009/11/21/my-iphone-epiphany-why-perfect-is-the-enemy-of-good-enough/ Everyone can understand technology; sometimes it just takes a little translating. Wed, 15 Feb 2012 02:34:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Thomas R. Hallhttp://www.geardiary.com/2009/11/21/my-iphone-epiphany-why-perfect-is-the-enemy-of-good-enough/#comment-108759 Thomas R. Hall Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:49:33 +0000 http://www.geardiary.com/?p=60694#comment-108759 <span class="topsy_trackback_comment"><span class="topsy_twitter_username"><span class="topsy_trackback_content">My iPhone Epiphany: Why “Perfect” is the Enemy of “Good Enough” http://bit.ly/9235aX</span></span> My iPhone Epiphany: Why “Perfect” is the Enemy of “Good Enough” http://bit.ly/9235aX

]]> By: Douglas Moranhttp://www.geardiary.com/2009/11/21/my-iphone-epiphany-why-perfect-is-the-enemy-of-good-enough/#comment-53850 Douglas Moran Sun, 22 Nov 2009 03:51:12 +0000 http://www.geardiary.com/?p=60694#comment-53850 I started out in the professional nerd world on UNIX, and worked on multi-tasking OSes for a long, long time. But I never felt multi-tasking was a "must have" in a PDA or smart phone, and my experience with both Windows Mobile (ack! Run away!) and the iPhone has only reinforced that. When I was on my HTC Universal--a sweet device that I really liked, for all it's bulk--I theoretically had multitasking, but both the OS and the other programs had such memory leak problems that I could never *use it*. I installed a third-party app to exit programs when you closed them; I installed a third-party app that allowed me to tune and overclock the processor; hell, I even installed a third-party app to play music because it used less memory. Didn't help. (And we're not even getting into the fact that I had to reboot my Uni 3-6 times a day, on average. The iPhone? Eh, once a week. Maybe.) So yes, less is more. Apple's approach seems to be to go from zero, and figure out, "What applications and tools are necessary?" Microsoft's approach seems to be, "We have Windows; how much do we need to pare it down to make it run on a SmartPhone." The result? Well, iPhone users are holding the result in their hands, aren't they? Just one Doug's opinion. I started out in the professional nerd world on UNIX, and worked on multi-tasking OSes for a long, long time. But I never felt multi-tasking was a “must have” in a PDA or smart phone, and my experience with both Windows Mobile (ack! Run away!) and the iPhone has only reinforced that. When I was on my HTC Universal–a sweet device that I really liked, for all it’s bulk–I theoretically had multitasking, but both the OS and the other programs had such memory leak problems that I could never *use it*. I installed a third-party app to exit programs when you closed them; I installed a third-party app that allowed me to tune and overclock the processor; hell, I even installed a third-party app to play music because it used less memory. Didn’t help.

(And we’re not even getting into the fact that I had to reboot my Uni 3-6 times a day, on average. The iPhone? Eh, once a week. Maybe.)

So yes, less is more. Apple’s approach seems to be to go from zero, and figure out, “What applications and tools are necessary?” Microsoft’s approach seems to be, “We have Windows; how much do we need to pare it down to make it run on a SmartPhone.” The result? Well, iPhone users are holding the result in their hands, aren’t they?

Just one Doug’s opinion.

]]> By: thirdshifthttp://www.geardiary.com/2009/11/21/my-iphone-epiphany-why-perfect-is-the-enemy-of-good-enough/#comment-53821 thirdshift Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:44:17 +0000 http://www.geardiary.com/?p=60694#comment-53821 Sometimes less is more. Sometimes less is more.

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