the onda

The single biggest thing I miss about my pre-iPhone Nokia e61 is the way that great applications like Shozu let you perform a network-related content authoring action, and then faded gracefully into the background to slowly bang on the Inter Tubes and get the bits across. I was reminded of that earlier today when in the process of messing around with an HDR iPhone application, I tried to reply to a text and ended up dropping the phone into a snowbank. Much like this chap over here.

I've had the discussions over and over about how the iPhone doesn't need background processing, that it is not a general purpose computer, that it would slow down the phone with bloated apps, and that would ruin its magic. Frankly though at this point all of these Apple apologist arguments are ringing about as false as those around how the battery is "good enough" and doesn't need to be removable.

These are general purpose computers, and what is more, they represent the next stage of all sorts of rich content publishing for most of us. And that means that you need to be able to go from start to finish in a little as 15-60 seconds— a virtual impossibility once you move beyond meaningless tweets about who you've just run into.

Come on Apple, please help me avoid forking over $600 to Nokia for great hardware running into a software brick wall!