I have an iPhone. I am still so freaking confused by the damn thing.
I like manuals. I like to refer to a manual and know how something works. iProducts don’t have that. You have to download the manual and then try and find what the hell you are looking for.
I had to upload the iCloud because I needed more space on my phone. I have a lot of music for when I teach at the gym and then I have a bunch of pictures. My 8gb phone ran out of room and it said to use the iCloud and that would free up all of my space.
Except it didn’t. I had even less room.
A trip to the Apple store was in order. The first person didn’t know what was wrong, so I had to make an appointment and go in again. The mall opens at 11 on Sundays. I got there right at 11 for my appointment. There were 987 people in there just as confused as I was at 11 in the morning.
It turned out to be a simple fix (according to the Apple guy wearing flip flops to work- nice gig!), but why can’t something tell me that? It says- refer to settings. Have you ever looked at the settings tab on the iPhone. There are about 682 buttons under settings and not one of them is in English. They are all in Apple-ese.
If Steve Jobs was making the wave of the future, couldn’t he have made it a bit more user friendly? Am I supposed to know what all of that jibberish means? It’s basically a bunch of on and off buttons. But what the hell am I turning on and off? I just don’t know!
I miss my old Zack Morris cell phone (if you don’t understand the reference- we can’t be friends) that didn’t do anything except make phone calls! Ironically, my first cell phone was smaller than my iPhone!
The wife and Kid have I-Phones and I would bet they don’t know how to work half of the bells and whistles. This is why I have a 5yr old basic flip-phone that does nothing but act as a phone. If I could, I’d happily go back to no phone at all, other than the one at home with the 100′ cord.
Find a 12 year old, pay him/her a retainer.