David Rinnan on posterous

1. Fix your computer casing. Alu weigh more than plastic I guess. Which is why you have to make such thin sheets of alu that I can feel it flex by just pushing the finger on it. Take the lid of the screen for instance. You can make a dent in that far easier than plastic. A computer of this cost must be much tougher. Pro means that people work with it, travel around the world with it, ok?

2. When you go after the cool stuff it is easy to miss the really simple and standard expectations. Whether MMS, ok quality camera, FM radio or just the ability to continue to listen to the music while sending a text message. There are soooo many waiting to buy an iphone.
(for a product that, with the introduction of OS3.0 actually can send MMS. There are 2 400 000 posts on how to do it. Only sending files over lan win over that)

3. Make an iphone that can survive a drop on the floor. Too many that I know have smashed their phone after relatively light drops.

4. Even though it is easy to say that Vista wasn't the best operating system ever made (pun intended) it still made a number of good features available on the market. It doesn't hurt to try and steel some of those features, so long as it makes the OS better. The old story goes that a mac is so easy to use and so intuitive. Well it isn't :) And there are many things that are far more awkward on a mac than a PC. I think it is time to take the next step.

(got a little better with the latest version of osx)

5. Given that one of the major alternatives to Windows is free (linux) and that it, with versions like ubuntu, comes like a full blown commercial OS out of the box (a free box without wrapping, CDs etc). And that you are able to, if you want/need, tweak it to death. It strangely enough installs on most common PC hardware (yes that is right, the same hardware apple are using..). So rather than having to steel your software or otherwise go against your EULA and install a hackintosh you could make your OS available for all hardware as everybody else do (and in the case of your main competitor - are probably forced to do). Fixing drivers is up to the perefiral manufacturers or the community, as it has always been. It is not your problem so feel free to take this next step to conquer the OS world (step 4 required as well though).

Let's begin there and take the rest at a later stage!

Thanks

David Rinnan
http://www.google.com/profiles/david.rinnan

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