Um, no, it’s not. In fact, the iPhone didn’t even come boxed with an instruction manual/booklet. Those Apple guys put a lot of thought into an intuitive interface, and they had the confidence to scrap the instruction book altogether.
Come to think of it, maybe the lack of an instruction manual is to blame for Opinion Research’s findings that 1 in 8 new iPhone owners (12%) found the iconic handset too hard to use. We aren’t joking, there are apparently some people that just cant figure out the single-buttoned (well, aside from volume and power buttons on the bezel) user interface of the iPhone.
Still, the 12% iPhone frustration-rate is less than the 14.5% of BlackBerry owners that return the crack email-pusher and the 21% of other smartphone owners just couldn’t make heads or tails of their geeky handset.
Granted, smartphones are starting to make their way into the hands of the not-so-technically-inclined, but come on. Are these 12% of iPhone owners the same demographic that has never browsed the web or sent an email? Oh wait, that makes a lot of sense.
Opinion Research iPhone study (PDF link)
[Via: tech.co.uk]