⇨ Matias Duarte on the philosophy of Android, and an in-depth look at Ice Cream Sandwich

The concept of an address book or contacts feels so lame and dated, it's like 'an address book is this little thing with this faux leather cover!'
— Matias Duarte

Touché! The Address Book app is a sore point in the iOS (and Mac OS X) experience.

It is a chore to use this application to update contacts information and the "real life" user interface makes it even more frustrating.