iPhone total crap.
This one little article from tuaw.com sums up why the phone is worthless and a smartphone is better. And before the flaming starts I am writing this on my MacBook, and also have a PowerBook G4, iMac G5 and and Apple IIe, so definatly not an apple hater, just a hater of crappy products.
Apple needs to know that for a phone like this it needs to be functional and upgradeable. This looks like a rushed attempt to make the investors happy.
"The lucky Gizmodo guys got their paws on an actual iPhone plus an hour of Q&A with some Apple VPs. Here are some of their scoops: The OS isn't going to be "OS X for real." It's more like a pseudo-OS X and, like the iPod, it will not have a public API and open development. This confirms what Dan posted earlier today about no user-installable apps. Which is a shame. I'd really love to see the iPod and iPhone get opened up for more third party software. The screen is the same polycarbonite material as the iPod overlaid with a touch element. Finally, there won't be any WiFi or cellular data syncing, only sync-via-docking."
http://www.tuaw.com/2007/01/10/apple...y-iphone-apps/
Apple needs to know that for a phone like this it needs to be functional and upgradeable. This looks like a rushed attempt to make the investors happy.
"The lucky Gizmodo guys got their paws on an actual iPhone plus an hour of Q&A with some Apple VPs. Here are some of their scoops: The OS isn't going to be "OS X for real." It's more like a pseudo-OS X and, like the iPod, it will not have a public API and open development. This confirms what Dan posted earlier today about no user-installable apps. Which is a shame. I'd really love to see the iPod and iPhone get opened up for more third party software. The screen is the same polycarbonite material as the iPod overlaid with a touch element. Finally, there won't be any WiFi or cellular data syncing, only sync-via-docking."
http://www.tuaw.com/2007/01/10/apple...y-iphone-apps/
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THere is a ton in this phone that is good. Go look at it and then come back.
Let us look at some of the elements that needed to happen.
1. Apple needed to develop an OS X version suitable for embedded environments
2. This is Apple's first foray into making a cell and a Smartphone is the biggest challenge you can make IMO.
3. Closed platform is a good thing right now. Check the other smartphone reviews. People complain about the instability of said phones. Stability is paramount here.
4. Patented technology. The iPhone has a BUNCH of patented stuff that frankly needs to settle before 3rd parties come crashing through.
I respect your post here but I see no substantial reason why I should co-sign your sentiment. A smartphone can be many things to many people but to lambaste a product based on applications that don't even exist just smacks of illogical thinking.
In 2008 I'll likely get an iPhone after seeing it in the while for a year and by the end of my contract hopefully I'll be confronted with new 2nd generation hardware and more options.
This iPhone is indeed a groundbreaking product yet if you look for weakenesses you will find them.
if you look for weakenesses you will find them
... in anything and anyone, but why are so many people always so negative? Look at the bright side of things and develop them, while working at reducing the weaknesses.
The pewrfect phone/commuicator would be a device that when held to your ear it would fit comfy n your hand, but when you go to type on it it would resize to a small tablet. Yeah, in a SF movie.
Oh, this is from TUAW. That would explain absolutely everything, an AOL Subsidary (part of Weblog Inc. which is owned by AOL) that writes about 20 articles a day clearing up absolutely nothing while aiming to be as contriversial as possible about everything.
Yeah, I dropped them from Vienna about 5 weeks ago when they started posting about Recycled Rubber iPod cases making a big deal about nothing.
Sebastian
I myself was in my local apple store standing around a macbook with another apple associate watching the updates of the keynote and was very excited about the product.
One key problem was that it is not open to all carriers which makes it difficult to like a product that is already selective on who may buy it and further more after reading review after review it became more clear to myself that the phone was way over hyped and fell short of my expectations and I am sure others as well.
While I have read just about all articles on the iphone the one I posted shows my personal feelings as to why this phone is not worth the hype.
I myself was in my local apple store standing around a macbook with another apple associate watching the updates of the keynote and was very excited about the product.
One key problem was that it is not open to all carriers which makes it difficult to like a product that is already selective on who may buy it and further more after reading review after review it became more clear to myself that the phone was way over hyped and fell short of my expectations and I am sure others as well.
Reading Review after Review? What Review?
Last I checked it's not even FCC certified yet.
Unlocking it would've only hurt the iPhone, not help it. They have to have Network cooperation in order to make it work, they chose the nation's largest celluar service provider to do it.
Sebastian
If you post sensationalist nonsense, people are going to call you on it. We're not just gonna magically drink your kool-aid because you bought a Mac.
If it we're that easy, Political Outsider would be all sunshine and cute bunny rabbits.
We're not just gonna magically drink your kool-aid because you bought a Mac.
If it we're that easy, Political Outsider would be all sunshine and cute bunny rabbits.
I wouldn't drink Nick's kool-aid even if it came out of Angelina Jolie's teet.
If it we're that easy, Political Outsider would be all sunshine and cute bunny rabbits.
What color would the bunny ears be, pink?
What color would the bunny ears be, pink?
Green
Sebastian
I wouldn't drink Nick's kool-aid even if it came out of Angelina Jolie's teet.
How would it get in there? That's what disturbs me.
What color would the bunny ears be, pink?
Cuter.
Our best hope is that Apple can and does relent on the drawbacks. For a lot of these, we don't know if it's imposed on them in order to get a network that will support their product, or if it's Apple's doing.
In 2008 I'll likely get an iPhone after seeing it in the while for a year and by the end of my contract hopefully I'll be confronted with new 2nd generation hardware and more options.
This iPhone is indeed a groundbreaking product yet if you look for weakenesses you will find them.
I'm with you. The first generation iPod was fraught with trouble, but no one really complained since it was certainly the first of its kind and it did basically everything everybody was asking for. The iPhone will only get better with each iteration. Apple is very consistent.
Cuter.
In fact, this cute.
If everyone in AO looked like that, we could all go to the Harmony Hut and have a real good time!
aawww, izn't 'e de kootest darn li'l thing you eva did see!
If everyone in AO looked like that, we could all go to the Harmony Hut and have a real good time!