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Originally posted by island911
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Now, before you get your GUI in a wad, let me note that, most likely, it is lacking by design. That is, Apple users expect easy to use. Every GUI has a learning curve. Putting too much in the product would upset the learning curve.
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I think that's a fairly reasonable assessment.
I think most people, not just Apple users, want their high tech products to be easy to use. Note the iPod and its broad (non-Mac) user base.
I expect the iPhone's market to be more than 50% non-Apple/Mac users, FWIW. Well, not Mac users yet.
edit: Actually, the iPhone is really just a mini-computer with a phone running a slimmed down version of the real OSX, so it is a "Mac".
The trick is to allow simple access to powerful features via an intuitive and simple UI and at the same time allow power users access to a command line via a Unix terminal - like OSX today. I read a couple of days ago that some folks have already got access to the iPhones "shell".
OSX on iPhone wil allow this multi-level access.
Best,
Kurt