Cosmin Ghiu Thoughts

I returned my iPhone. It Sucks.

 

On October 2nd, 2007 I anxiously went into the AT&T store to purchase my 8G Apple iPhone.

After all the hype, I was preparing to buy the iPhone as soon as the price went down and a few of the early adopters finished writing their reviews about the good and the bad for the iPhone.

After reading many reviews I considered it was worth the hype to buy one.

Of course I was blown away by the GUI and the user interface features that are in my opinion 3-5 years ahead of any other smart phone on the market. All of my friends and family were equally impressed with its innovative look and functionality. I immediately began to play with all of the features and to make it part of my lifestyle.

Going through different features I began to notice that the IT people at my office could not get it to connect to Microsoft Exchange. For whatever reason they did not want to use IMAP so I settled for POP email. No big deal. What was a big deal was the fact that now I could only get my email every 15 minutes (the minimum time allowed by iPhone). Whereas, on my previous Nokia E62 smart phone being connected to Microsoft Exchange I would recieve my email prior to them appearing in my Outlook at times!

Speaking of synching, forget automatic synch Outlook, I need to manually synch it every time I connected it to my dock that was connected to my office laptop.

Then I went to text message my friends that I got the new iPhone… I went to add a second friend to my send and realized their was no multiple text messaging along with no copy/paste to even manually send it to multiple friends. I would have to manually type in for each friend the same message!

Ok, I thought. Just some getting used to. However, after days went by more and more of the features that I was finding on all of the “iPhone Sucks“ websites were becoming evident.

By October 16th (14 days later) I had enough. I made the decision that for my business (enterprise) needs I just cannot lose any more productivity.

Final verdict: The Apple iPhone user interface is 3-5 years ahead of its time and untouchable (no pun intended) by other devices to date. However, for business users I hope Apple has something in the pipe to develop an iPhone for enterprise users. Then the Blackberry that I got in exchange for the iPhone will have a long way to challenge!

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