Comments on: Being a “power user” really sucks sometimes as iPhone 2.2 reminds me

By: ruben llibre

ruben llibre — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:55:19 +0000

This really sums up my feelings of being a power user,
my feelings toward mac, and towards linux. jajaja!
nice one

By: Ilyak

Ilyak — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 09:02:49 +0000

URL bar and search bar are combined in konqueror.

Just type URL to get there, search query to search with default engine, ggi:query searches images, ggg: groups, ya: yields yandex search, wp: wikipedia, dict: miriam-webster.
Configurable!

By: Scott Morgan

Scott Morgan — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 07:05:42 +0000

cut and paste, landscape email, a delete all button for text messages, native IM so you don’t have to leave the app open, just a few things I keep wishing for. On a brighter note the updates to maps are awesome, however, google should of used the accelerometer with street view.

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 03:30:10 +0000

I don’t mind the address bar issue too much — although I see what you mean. I like the design of it over all. I think, however, that it might be more interesting if they could somehow combine the search and URL bars; perhaps so that, if you typed in a URL, it would automatically navigate to it, but if you typed in anything else, it would search. It just seems that there must be some better way of handling it.

As for copy-and-paste, I DO NOT want to see this on iPhone. I’d love to see something which accomplished something similar, but really, I’d like something better. Clipboard on computers have enough issues that we feel the need to make programs which help manage them… I don’t know what way might be better, but I am certain there must be a better way.

By: Carter

Carter — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 00:04:28 +0000

I was complaining to my fiance about the *exact* same things this morning at breakfast. Wasting screen real estate on a mobile device is a crime.

By: stu

stu — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 22:49:44 +0000

the browser bar doesn’t bug me; I really was looking forward to 2.2 fixing the dramatic and annoying pauses & crashes with safari and the keyboard. So far so good.

basically when they don’t fix things over time, I get annoyed. Cut ‘n paste, for example, I think *needs* to happen in 2009, there’s no excuse for it to have de-prioritized or thought-over for more than 2 years. As for the cache, sure I wish it were improved, and I gather there’s a hardware reason it hasn’t (maybe they cache in RAM and don’t want to prematurely wear out the flash? no idea).

By: Mark Scrimshire

Mark Scrimshire — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 22:34:23 +0000

So is wanting Cut and Paste a power user feature? I hope not!