intuitive is simply a measure of how little people have to actually think through what they're doing..

and he actually complains about the touchscreen JUST because it's ressistive, "It’s worth noting at this point that the N900’s touchscreen is resistive, like the Nokia N97’s, and not capacitive, like the iPhone’s or Android phones. This was disappointing to hear"

also: "In fact, in some cases, the touchscreen is just a little too responsive. It seems to react to even the slightest touch of your finger, which can cause it to interpret a movement as a swipe when all you meant to do was place your finger on the screen."

what is WRONG with this person!?!


source of my hate:
http://mobilementalism.com/2009/09/1...martphone-yet/

haha that was kind of funny so exactly what did he not like about the resistive screen?

He tried. You could tell he was really trying. Bless his heart.



(Hands-on with the N900 in a darkened theatre = sticky keyboard?)

how can he say something like that?

He could base that on assumptions that android and iphone will have a larger marketshare and more developers.

I'd still pick n900 for the openness. And I think and hope the n900 will grow much bigger than what would be expected from the interest in the n8x0:s and previous maemos.

Or maybe he just means limited as opposed to infinite, which is probably a correct assessment for the foreseeable future.

Cue the hordes of maniacs obsessing over n900's (lack of) compass and how they could wrangle it in

Yes, maybe. But it doesn't have to be that way.

As you probably already know;
There are already several applications to earlier the earlier maemo-dists which probably are going to be ported and there are also tons of applications for Linux in general which be modified for maemo5.

So I don't see that lack of applications will be an issue.

It's more intuitive than Symbian but less intuitive than the iPhone

(Please notice the iPhone UI is designed to be as simple as possible and stuff like multitasking would be way too complicated for your average iPhone user)

I don't think multitasking would be to hard for the people who use the iPhone. Rather it's the OS itself and application market that's not designed around multitasking that causes the problems.

Once Apple releases their revolutionary multitasking feature on the iphone you'll see people multitasking.

Personally, I go out of my way to avoid using the word "intuitive" to describe anything. I've found it to be entirely too subjective.

In the end, there are two items I've most often seen upheld as paragons of intuitiveness: the hammer and the nipple. UI/UX designers have a tendency to wax poetic on the perfect design of these items. However, it's common for people to grip hammers too high on the handle, reducing the effectiveness of the tool, until they are taught proper usage. And calling a nipple "intuitive" ignores the existence of lactation consultant as a career path as well as the USLCA, the ILCA, college courses, and certifying boards for those in the profession.