More iPhone woes
Last night I was using my iPhone to browse the web on the train into London. Now I’ve done this since I owned my first web-enabled phone in 2001 so I know the experience is pretty poor due to the patchy network coverage. However, on this journey the iPhone hung completely, not even holding the power button would shut it down. After about 3 minutes, it turned off and restarted fine, but every single AppStore application I’d already downloaded would just crash. I wonder if I’m now a victim of the iPhone app crash bug?.
Before it crashed I was reading an article on news.com about rumours that Microsoft will launch an AppStore equivalent called SkyMarket (rubbish name IMO) for Windows Mobile sometime in the Autumn. This got me thinking: are the iPhones apps poorly written due to the developers lack of experience? Is it because Apple haven’t exposed enough of the iPhone’s system? If its the former I’m sure we will see similar issues plague applications in SkyMarket as its likely to draw more developers to Windows Mobile – especially as it has twice the market share as the iPhone at the moment.
Whilst I’d get a lot of satisfaction out of blending my iPhone, I still enjoy using the device.