iPhone Apps

I'm playing around with the newly released iPhone apps, and I'm of two feelings about them. On the one hand, in many ways, they're like getting the iPhone brand new all over again - there's a ton of functionality ready to discover and any part of it could revolutionize my daily life. It'd be like 2001 all over again, with spaceships and video phones.

On the other hand, it's quite obvious that most people are not particularly good at designing program user interfaces for the iPhone. There's obviously a trick to it, and failure means that your program, whatever it's good intentions, is just a pieces of unusable mess. I've grown frustrated with and uninstalled several cool-looking programs at this point because they're just impossible to use (as well as poorly documented).

Part of this might also be because I'm trying to do pretty specific things (most of it blog-related) and it's pretty early for specific things that aren't also very common.