[Sigia-l] It's started

[Nancy Broden]

I won't disagree with the absence of cohesion, integration, etc, etc.  
But my experience working in the "mobile value chain" with everyone  
from manufacturers, carriers and content providers has shown that the  
players have an understanding of the issues and a desire to evolve.  
However, fixing what needs to be fixed in the world of mobile UI is a  
daunting task because of the complex relationships among the players  
along that value chain. The UI should be a concern to every player,  
but the relationships among them are not in place for that to be the  
case. Apple has been the exception, of course, because it has  
controlled the entire design and development process for the iPhone.  
Apple's weakness in this endeavor will be in its lack of control over  
the iPhone's service, but perhaps they have some leverage with AT&T  
on that front that I have not heard about.

Will Apple/AT&T shift the paradigm? Will the world be different after  
June 29? Maybe, maybe not. I have hopes that the iPhone's (presumed)  
success will goose the entire mobile industry into producing more  
useful, usable and enjoyable products and services. But I suspect  
that those changes will still be incremental - slow enough to  
continue frustrate everyone on this list.

On Jun 4, 2007, at 12:26 PM, Ziya Oz wrote:

> Unfortunately, as far as I know, it's just one
> *disjointed* feature, among a sea of software mediocrity on that  
> phone.
> What's lacking on virtually all cellphones is precisely this:  
> absence of
> cohesion, integration, systems thinking, predictable software  
> behavior and a
> underlying sense of delight.

Nancy Broden
nancy.broden at gmail.com