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Originally Posted by Devils'Advocate
And I don't understand how making software easier to use is wrong. I'm a systems designer and my *GOAL* is to make my software as easy to use as possible. So once I was done making my videos in FCP, I cut them to DVD using iDVD. It was definitely easy to use. I don't know why I would want to use something difficult to burn the DVDs. Maybe I'm just "dumb".
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I suppose I should have qualified my statement in that Apple has always been big in the video and music editing fields, but how many of us are in those fields? In general companies that make things "easier" to use do it by making them simpler, ie taking away options. Console versions of PC games are simpler/easier because of lack of keyboard/mouse. The Wii is easy because it has fewer buttons, the iPhone is easier because it has fewer options for customization or multitasking, etc. For people that want to set up their phone desktop however they want to, or play more complicated games, these easier devices are frustrating.
I guess I wish things had a way to turn on advanced mode, which would allow more things that some people would find "hard." Then one device could conceivably service both sides. I suppose you could argue that would jailbreaking the iPhone, but that doesn't really count.
As far as multitasking, I don't know how I would do without it on my Droid. I'm constantly running a couple tabs in the browser (which the iPad can do), but also switching back and forth between the browser, a file manager, Pandora, or whatever. Its not as difficult as it sounds, as in requiring a task manager or anything. On Android you can do a long press of the "home" button and it will pull up the icons of the last 6 apps you've run. Its almost like an easy alt-tab. Things run in the background until the OS decides it needs their resources, so you don't have to constantly worry about closing background applications.