When asked to do an app review, I was initially concerned. As of the past few months, I have begun to grow increasingly detached from my iPhone. It was once an object of productivity and my lifeblood in order for me to keep track of my day to day. I used it for everything and anything. As I have grown increasingly distant from my iphone, I realized the applications that has caused me the most frustration are the applications which come standard with the iPhone. Applications such as Calendar, Mail, Weather, Notes and Safari have long been my favorite first party “apps.” I used these apps everyday for my work and in order to keep me in line. However, as my relationship with Apple slowly deteriorates, I found these applications to be at the forefront of my frustrations. I believe Apple’s application development has been lagging in relation to the forward advances Google and other third-party developers have been making. With each update of the iPhone, we are given advancements that I never saw to be a huge area of concern. From the Compass, Passbook, Newsstand, Reminders, and even the famed Siri, I have found these apps to be too situational and arbitrary to be implemented in one’s typical workflow. The app I chose to review in this instance is the one that leaves the most sour taste in my mouth, Calendar.
This app, Calendar, came into my workflow rotation at the beginning of college. I had found keeping track of group meetings, club events and classes was easier to schedule and manage through the use of this app. I have never really utilized a day planner (I have a tendency to not write things down) and repeated events, such as classes, would be a chore to write into my planner each and every time. The app allowed for repeated events, iCal, iCloud and google calendar syncing. All these features and functions have worked greatly for me. However as time has gone on, the application has been receiving less attention while Apple continues to develop other applications. When viewing a calendar on a 3.5 inch screen, the ability to toggle view modes and scrolling should be a seamless and easy procedure, however the app does not make it an easy user experience. One of my main frustrations is the lack of scaling on the daily/weekly calendar view, and how it is toggled by the landscape orientation function. This could cause frustrations when browsing through a weekly view. Also the monthly view can only be viewed as cells, with a table beneath them. The functionality of ical is somewhat lacking in this port to the iphone. The app also feels & looks dated and clunky. List view is an absolute horror show and the push notifications can be annoying as it does not allow selective calendar push notifications. (If it does, it’s a lot more difficult to manage than I would like.)
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