As John Gruber points out, the location of switching views would be better served as tappable tabs at the bottom.

Who the hell puts “Cancel” first in a vertical UI? “Cancel” is not the first act I should be thinking about. If you’re gonna make an iOS app, embrace it and regardless of platform, use good UI logic and usability patterns. It’s not like Google doesn’t have the money to fund quality work.

They could really punch Facebook in the mouth with a good, dedicated iPad app first. In fact, they SHOULD have. Facebook’s been dragging their feet there. Hell, Skype beat them both to it! Google didn’t even bother to make an iPod touch app? What’s the distinction between iPhone and iPod touch users to justify that? Weird.

UPDATE:

Maybe I’m less visionary on this, but I’ve never thought “Boy, I wish I didn’t need to use my local storage for more music.” Could be I just don’t have a huge music library, but more likely, it’s nice to cloud-store content and not need to keep managing what’s synced or downloaded locally.

Maybe it’ll be nice to stream my library from anywhere, freeing up local storage for apps, but being someone who lives in a data-capped world, usage needs to be watched. I imagine Verizon will join the capped data world soon, but for now, unlimited plans are a nice benefit they offer if more content moves to the cloud.

It’s interesting that Amazon just decided to launch their cloud music system and were confident enough that the music labels wouldn’t destroy them in court, because I imagine they’re pretty bitter. It’s amazing that Google tried to talk to them first, and the labels tried the old nickel and dime licensing thing, so they’re just letting users do it, so labels lost a new distributer in Google. It’s an iTunes vs Amazon world in music. Meanwhile, Apple’s in talks to get labels on board for their cloud music for June.

What’s amazing is that this system is already in place for apps and you don’t see software developers bitching and whining about consumers being able to redownload stuff they already bought. Both Apple and Google devices know what you bought and let you redownload. Only the music industry thinks every outlet is an opportunity to reach in your wallet for the same content. Well, I guess Hollywood does it too. They’re probably paranoid that cloud storage for licensed content could be hacked to share. The genie’s out of the bottle, though, and they’re spending tons on lawyers to keep pushing him back in.

That sound you hear is Microsoft and its third party support sweating (even just a little). The dominance of the market share is splintering further. Let’s see: Google is #1 in search, RIM’s Blackberry OS is probably #1 in mobile OS, with iPhone, Google Android and Palm Pre’s WebOS getting good reviews and growing fast, Microsoft IE is the #1 web browser, but continuously losing market share, and Windows is still #1 desktop/laptop OS (this is based on what I’ve read and seen and is not 100% fact, but I’d put money on this being REAL close). I hear more and more positive things about Linux, with netbooks getting more prominent as low-cost portable computer solutions.

Apple notebook sales are growing stronger than other manufacturers’ (in a lousy economy, too) and their marketing forced Microsoft to respond, and do so awkwardly. They’ve had to spend a lot of money to overcome Vista’s faults, such as the annoying security messages, initial driver problems, and most importantly, Microsoft’s business model that allowed third party hardware pre-installed with Vista without the specs to optimally run it. First they had Bill Gates hang out with Jerry Seinfeld to our amusement. Lately they’ve been marketing as the low-cost provider, sending people into a Best Buy with cash for a notebook, but leaving out the hidden extra costs involved, like a need for an annual anti-virus software license, the more expensive Windows 7 upgrade (when compared to the price of Snow Leopard for a Mac buyer/Leopard OSX owner) and the stark difference in brand consumer satisfaction. My earlier blog post was about the weird decision to use gross imagery to market IE8, in a desperate attempt for attention.

Google has the money and brand power to further split the market that Microsoft and Linux are sharing. This next decade will be very different from the 90s. VERY different.