Okay, maybe some of these are more annoyances than quirks:
- Springboard Application Placement Upon Update
This one gets me every time an application has an update. If I’ve gone through the trouble of taking an application (that I paid for) and drag it across six pages of apps so that it can reside in the #1 spot on my iPhone, why when upgrading does it jump to the end of the list again? I can understand that new apps get chucked to the end of the list, but couldn’t the OS merely turn off the old version (I assume it isn’t deleted until the new one gets downloaded, but I’m not betting the farm on it.), move it automagically somewhere and setup the new ‘downloading’ app in the spot the previous version occupied?
And while we’re talking about upgrading apps, why does the App Store need to quit to the Springboard every time I tell it to download a new app? Can I queue these things and have them go all at once? I mean you can get all of the updates to installed apps in batch mode right?
- Developer Hardware
So I’m a real honest to goodness, paid up, friend of Steve, iPhone developer. Full access to OS 2.1Beta… I haven’t produced anything yet as I’m too scared of the warning on the iPhone DEV site which states, that by installing the Beta iPhone software I may lock my iPhone permanently into developer hardware and it can’t be used as a phone again! What what what?
Are you kidding me? So if I really wanted to produce an iPhone app and wanted to use an iPhone, I need two of them? With Rogers requiring a contract to go along with every iPhone, perhaps my 1st gen iPhone becomes a developer box and a new one becomes my phone.
Personally I’m holding out that my new job picks up an iPhone 3G for me…
