http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/09/palm-hires-ex-apple-designer-puts-iphone-in-its-sights/ Engadget Comments for Palm hires ex-Apple designer, puts iPhone in its sights http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/09/palm-hires-ex-apple-designer-puts-iphone-in-its-sights/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/09/palm-hires-ex-apple-designer-puts-iphone-in-its-sights/Mar 9th 2007 1:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/09/palm-hires-ex-apple-designer-puts-iphone-in-its-sights/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/09/palm-hires-ex-apple-designer-puts-iphone-in-its-sights/"innovative". I agree that most of the appeal of this phone is not in
the features you'll see on the spec sheet. Where Apple innovates best
is in the ease-of-use.

I have a Windows Mobile Treo for work. To mute a
call, I have to select Menu (hotkey or stylus) > Down (dpad) > Mute
(action key or stylus). 2 steps at least, but 3 if I don't want to
use the stylus. Most of WM is like that; too many steps to do the
most common tasks. I expect Apple has solved for most of this in
their UI. They will have mute too--not a new feature--but
implemented better. (I know Palm has a mute button on screen like the
iPhone will, that was just the first example I could come up with.)]]>Mar 9th 2007 1:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/09/palm-hires-ex-apple-designer-puts-iphone-in-its-sights/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/09/palm-hires-ex-apple-designer-puts-iphone-in-its-sights/Mar 9th 2007 1:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/09/palm-hires-ex-apple-designer-puts-iphone-in-its-sights/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/09/palm-hires-ex-apple-designer-puts-iphone-in-its-sights/Mar 9th 2007 1:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/09/palm-hires-ex-apple-designer-puts-iphone-in-its-sights/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/09/palm-hires-ex-apple-designer-puts-iphone-in-its-sights/
now, i bet your the sort of person that doesnt see osx's ease of use and general satisfyingness as any better than windows, if your ignorantly happy with your phones os, then save ya money, me - im just thanking god this came along.]]>Mar 9th 2007 1:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/09/palm-hires-ex-apple-designer-puts-iphone-in-its-sights/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/09/palm-hires-ex-apple-designer-puts-iphone-in-its-sights/Mar 9th 2007 1:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/09/palm-hires-ex-apple-designer-puts-iphone-in-its-sights/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/09/palm-hires-ex-apple-designer-puts-iphone-in-its-sights/
Windows 3.1 thinks its OS7
The Zune thinks its an iPod

Any others?

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Ouch. I don't know if I'd put "Designed Finder" on my resume given the popularity of the acronyn, "FTFF."]]>Mar 9th 2007 1:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/09/palm-hires-ex-apple-designer-puts-iphone-in-its-sights/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/09/palm-hires-ex-apple-designer-puts-iphone-in-its-sights/Mar 9th 2007 2:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/09/palm-hires-ex-apple-designer-puts-iphone-in-its-sights/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/09/palm-hires-ex-apple-designer-puts-iphone-in-its-sights/Mar 19th 2007 1:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/09/palm-hires-ex-apple-designer-puts-iphone-in-its-sights/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/09/palm-hires-ex-apple-designer-puts-iphone-in-its-sights/
Suffice to say at the moment I'm not feeling particularly charitable to either company, and I'm seriously considering getting a Toughbook and something from HTC.]]>Mar 9th 2007 3:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/09/palm-hires-ex-apple-designer-puts-iphone-in-its-sights/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/09/palm-hires-ex-apple-designer-puts-iphone-in-its-sights/
@omegamerc - I have extensively used Windows Mobile and it is exceptionally unreliable, especially it's poor memory management. To be fair, most smartphone OSs are. Blackberry OS and S60 are the best that I have used. S60 is more user friendly and Blackberry software seems more powerful, and they both run great.]]>Mar 9th 2007 4:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/09/palm-hires-ex-apple-designer-puts-iphone-in-its-sights/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/09/palm-hires-ex-apple-designer-puts-iphone-in-its-sights/Its already been determined that for a smartphone its pretty dumb, and for a regular phone its pretty large.
The interface should get no points for anything at this point because it hasn't been released to the public and thoroughly tested/hacked/tweaked en mass.
How slick an Apple presentation MAKES the interface look and how slick it actually is to USE can be two very, very different things.
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Apple: Oh baby you know it! yyyeeaaaaahhhh ^_^

Oh crap not again...get a room guys...]]>Mar 13th 2007 1:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/09/palm-hires-ex-apple-designer-puts-iphone-in-its-sights/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/09/palm-hires-ex-apple-designer-puts-iphone-in-its-sights/
Haven't use a Treo, but I've used 4+ Windows Mobile phones and have never had to press more than a single button to mute. It's always been designated to the left 'soft' key while in a call.

Now, maybe Palm tweaked it with a custom call app like they did with their home screen, but that's Palm's fault, not Windows. And at least with Windows Mobile you can replace the call app/screens with your own. With the iPhone you won't be able to put anything on it that Apple doesn't approve.]]>Mar 9th 2007 7:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/09/palm-hires-ex-apple-designer-puts-iphone-in-its-sights/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/09/palm-hires-ex-apple-designer-puts-iphone-in-its-sights/Mar 9th 2007 9:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/09/palm-hires-ex-apple-designer-puts-iphone-in-its-sights/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/09/palm-hires-ex-apple-designer-puts-iphone-in-its-sights/
Now, back to the post: I thought I read somewhere that Mercer came on board last year (making "recently" a stretch); do we have an actual hire date?

More broadly, I'm glad to hear Palm is still working on new products. Even if it's just to maintain its curb appeal while the For Sale sign is out, at least we long-time users may get a new product or two out of it before Motorola swallows Palm up.]]>Mar 10th 2007 8:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/03/09/palm-hires-ex-apple-designer-puts-iphone-in-its-sights/http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/09/palm-hires-ex-apple-designer-puts-iphone-in-its-sights/
Also, It was called "System 7", not "Mac OS 7". The first version to sport the modern moniker was Mac OS 8.]]>Mar 11th 2007 1:03AM