i haven’t used iTunes in a long time. and now that i’m back to using it thanks to iPhone, i am very quickly reminded of why i stopped.

it takes iTunes 2 hours to back-up my iPhone. the iPhone’s harddrive is 10% filled. 2 hours. various unexplained syncing periods take up to 15 minutes. i can’t find the option to disable automatic backing up (because it’s probably not there). i just wanna quickly put stuff on my iPhone and leave to go somewhere, is that asking too much?

and now after a recent update, one of my most used apps, Mobilefinder, is gone. vanished. i tried to redownload it- it tells me it’s installed already. so i can’t redownload it, and i can’t uninstall it, because it doesn’t show up.

this is what happens when a company tries to keep their product under severe lock-down and forbid their customers from having any manual control whatsoever. i really wouldn’t mind some lack of control if the product works. i’m pretty disappointed right now- if i saw Steve Jobs walking down the street, i’d actually yell at him. hahaha i really would. i also have a feeling that this is just the beginning of my apple problems.

i managed to download Mobilefinder into iTunes, but it won’t let me drag the app into the iPhone icon. i’m really tired of this i don’t have time for this crap. i thought this was supposed to be easy and intuitive.

it’s not exactly quarter-life crisis, i think i’ve traveled through that tunnel already. i’m just really confused. like i know what i’m doing and i know kinda where i wanna go, and yet at the same time i don’t understand whats going on.

and it’s weird how it all ties in- for some reason during grx retreat, i kept turning to Ecclesiastes 7:10 and somethin about it bugged me.

“Do not say, ‘Why were the old days better than these?’ For it is not wise to ask such questions.”

probably meaning that there were no days that were necessarily “better”…   the world has been pretty much the same for a long long time. which is why i think “why do we keep doing the same things?” what’s wrong with us?

they keep making things so we keep buying them. your neighbor goes to grad school so you go too. you have kids on the way so you automatically save up for an SUV. you don’t need an SUV. or a four bedroom house. or an iPhone. i mean, it’s nice but why does everything seem like it’s in auto-pilot.

even when it seems all the ducks are lined up- it’s pointless. Solomon was right, life is still confusing.

heheh well Tim- i would’ve bought the Tilt, and in hindsight, i maybe should have.

of course you knew this was going to happen. i’ve used this phone for 2 days now and already i have some major issues with it.

1. my battery meter never goes down. yesterday it was green the entire time until i got to rosa’s place and the phone just died without warning. i rebooted this morning after a charge so hopefully that fixes it, we’ll see.

2. iphone mail is most definitely not setup for business use. it proved itself unworthy last night as it took me a few hours to answer some emails (one of which i couldn’t even use the iphone, i ended up just turning my laptop back on). i’ll give you a list instead of a bloated hate-mongering story:

- unintuitve mail alert settings. the autocheck settings are not under the mail settings where it should be, instead it has its own category no where near the mail settings. why? the autocheck settings are only for mail. in fact, that option used to be under mail settings- why did they take it out??

- i still have no idea how to get new mail to alert me when the phone’s sleeping. could this be any harder to setup?

- i was sent photos of a set location and had to forward the appropriate ones to another contact, the iphone simply doesn’t allow for this. i can receive an email with multiple photos. but, i can’t send an email with multiple photos? why the hell not?? whats wrong with apple? just use the same freakin template you retards- why does it go into another interface even, when i try to send a single photo?? i basically ended up turning my laptop back on ;(  don’t send a baby to do a man’s job.

- why can’t we group multiple email accounts? or at least switch back and forth from either inbox’s? it’s ridiculous to have to keep tapping back and then forward again to select a different account. this one’s easy though- i’m not a coder but i know a few things about how difficult it would be to program something like this. just give the user an option to view both inbox’s on the same list. just a view. the iphone’s been out forever now and i’m surprised nobody’s pushed for that ;(

- GPS is not a realtime GPS, it’s much slower. it checks for you every couple seconds so you really can’t drive around with it like a regular GPS. the least they could’ve done is add a voice that gives you the next direction when you hit a big “next” button. surprised they haven’t thought of that- i’m no apple genius but even i could come up with an idea like that after a few minutes of use.

- no flash support and no word of whether thats coming in the future or not. it would feel a little bit better if apple would just voice their true intentions rather than lie to us about performance issues. the GPS doesn’t perform all that great either- but you guys threw that in…   so the reasoning of poor flash performance realllly doesn’t cut it. it’s most likely most definitely about money and if apple gets a cut or not.

sure the UI is nice and the games and apps are cute. but taking the iphone seriously, you simply can’t do. it features an OS that’s severely locked down and restricted- and it’s laughable that apple totes the phone as “practical for business”. it’s a toy. it really is. anytime someone shows you their iphone, they show you an interesting developmental item that’s hardly useful in the business realm. you pay $200 to be bothered further by facebook and myspace lol.

we’ll see how it does in the long run. hopefully apple gets to work on listening to their customers instead of feeding them more empty self-promoting sweet talk.