Other issues that I can’t live with day to day? How do I copy text from non-editable field like an email, webpage, or SMS, or even a 3rd party application? Oh, I can’t. Say what you want about the iPhone not having copy and paste for two years—a joke—it’s the single best implementation on the planet for a smartphone and Google’s approach is almost as bad as RIM’s with the Storm-series.
Yes, but the iPhone not having copy and paste for two years is not a joke. It’s precisely what makes Apple so successful. Apple would rather omit copy and paste than ship a sub-par implementation. And this mindset applies to every one of their products.
Does this mean Apple doesn’t make mistakes? No, but they 100% believe in every single product they ship. That won’t automatically make it correct, or mean that customers will like it as well as they do, but it does make it much more likely that it will be successful (and revolutionary).
Here’s another issue on why for the foreseeable future Android won’t be anything like what Apple or another company can offer: coders aren’t designers. It’s really as simple as that and anyone in the business will know exactly what I’m talking about. That’s why Apple’s entire developer ecosystem is different, because believe it or not, Apple’s developers are amazing designers that make beautiful things, and they happen to know how to code. That’s entirely different from someone who’s the best coder in the world and trying to create something that looks, works, and feels great.
A great summary of the entire Apple point-of-view. Design amazing products for everyone, and make sure every single aspect is perfect.
Developers or tech geeks will never make the best product for everyone. They may make the best product for other developers or tech geeks, but will almost always conflate what their own subgroup wants with what’s best for the product at large.
Android may be a decent operating system (it’s definitely miles above any other phone OS out there besides the iPhone OS), but if Google doesn’t consider the everyday user, their niche will never exceed that of the power user.
via John Gruber
