Posts Tagged ‘iPhone’
It’s pretty easy to see the updates on the LinkedIn’s new iPhone app. You might even get confused at first and think you’ve opened your Facebook app. The two have a very similar layout.
I don’t want to hold it against LinkedIn for designing a new app like Facebook’s current app. The Facebook app is popular and very efficient. So why not design one that is similar to it? It makes it easier for users to understand the update which is a far cry from the bar navigation at the bottom.
Out With the Old
One of my favorite new features is In Person. The feature uses your Bluetooth connection to exchange contact information with another LinkedIn user. Sadly this feature is also taken from another iPhone app: Bump. Another nice change is making profiles a separate category. From there you can add profiles to your favorites for easy reference later.
In With the New
Forget about the battle between Coke and Pepsi, the ongoing struggle between foreign and domestic automobiles, or the three way social media dance-off between Facebook, MySpace and Twitter. The big rivalry to define the world we live in for the next ten years, will be the war between Google and Apple.
With the resignation of Google CEO Eric Schmidt from Apple’s board this week, it seems as if the two companies have selected their pistols, are back to back and ready to pace off the duel for mobile phone/world supremacy.
Apple is the company of today. The iPhone revolutionized the mobile phone industry and with each new release (3G and 3GS), Apple has spread its wings further and further in the tech industry. It’s battle plan is simple, and very similar to the Microsoft playbook of the 80s and 90s: Build a good product and make sure all other applications need your product to run. It began with the iPod, which required iTunes to operate an iPod on your PC. iTunes updates then lead to a download of the Safari web browser, giving Apple the opening they needed to get a web browser on PCs.