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#61
Originally Posted by Helmuth View Post
Is it worthwhile to attract the iPhone users?
How big is the chance to get them back to Nokia?

Or shouldn't they try to attract the people who haven't switched to iOS so far because of the unattractive system and ui?
What I meant was that some things become standards, unwritten ad hoc standards of how things are supposed to work. A door knob, light switch, right hand threading in nuts and bolts, steering wheel, brake pedal. For phones pinch to zoom, swipe to go to next page/song/whatever, kinetic scrolling. Once a certain way of doing things has reached public consensus among enough people, it becomes "intuition", and making something different will make it worse because it will be counterintuitive, even though it actually could be a better solution.

Counterintuitive things may also reach a public consensus, like left hand driving in the UK and japan (or right hand driving elsewhere depending on your point of view).

Besides, regarding Symbian^3, I find it more pleasant to use than iOS, in fact very similar to Maemo. Even S60v5 is pleasant to use.