Apple: 1 Million 3G iPhones Sold In 3 Days > Hmm

Hmm

Agreed!

reply to Edrick

said by Edrick:

Yet all these people out there keep complaining how no one will buy it or how useless it is the numbers say otherwise

Yes. Exactly.

reply to tc1uscg
1 million more Apple trendies on there too.

You know, i'm getting a bit sick of people bashing those folks who want a really useful and innovative mobile device. I want an iPhone. Because apple made it? No. Because ATT carries it? Hell no. Because it's what i've been looking for for years, and will give me information on the go i've never been able to have before? YES YES YES!

Trendy? Arguable. Something that will make my life easier? Absolutely.

If you knew me you'd know that i do not care about my image, only about how efficient & healthy my life is. iPhone will help me with both. Welcome to the 21st century!

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said by tc1uscg:

said by Edrick:

Yet all these people out there keep complaining how no one will buy it or how useless it is the numbers say otherwise

Yeah but it proves one thing. Even though it had problems, there are idiots who will still buy just because of it being a name. Stupid is what stupid does. nuff said.

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That makes no sense. If the iPhone had been the same as those shitty phones with 80 cryptic buttons on the front and a teeny screen whose text looks like the first-generation Pong games, nobody would have bought it for the "name."

You are implying that it's not a better phone, but just an Apple phone. That sounds exactly like the reason that everyone buys Windows. It sucks but it's Microsoft.

Well, since you put it that way.. I think a vast majority of buyers buy it because it's "trendy" (ie, apple). Look at the iPod. It was BY FAR no where near the best MP3 player out there, but marketing put it where it was, those 20 somethings (I call them generation "what about me") who put it where it is. My niece is on her 3rd ipod. I'm still on my 40gb creative labs zen ultra, almost 3 years old) So, does the iPhone make calls better? What does it do BETTER then anything else out there?

It lets you use it without having to carry the instruction manual around with you.

I'm looking at my (non-cell) cordless phone now - let's see...

- Three buttons across the top underneath the screen - "Menu", "Redial", and "Select." Then a green button with a handset icon, labeled "Flash", a red button with a handset icon not labeled with anything, and a four-way toggle button in the center labeled with an up arrow, a down arrow, the word "ID" on the right, and what looks like an open book on the left.

If you press right ("ID"), does it tell you the last caller ID? Nope - the screen says "New:98 Total:100." If you press right again, it does nothing. By trying every possible direction you discover that pressing "down" shows the most recent caller ID. If you press "up" instead, you get the oldest caller ID.

If you press "Down" or "Up" BEFORE pressing "Right", then the ringer sounds and continues to sound until you press the red button. Got all that yet?

Now the Menu button - "Room Monitor", "Handset Setup", and more of a list of unknown items. Above the menu button it also says "clear", as if there is a second function "clear" that somehow can be invoked.

The "Select" button, which also has a little envelope icon above it as a second function, when pressed begins to play the recorded voicemail messages. So that's what "Select" means - "play the recorded voicemail messages."

The 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, *, and # keys have little arrow, double arrow, dot, and square box icons above them. No problem understanding that, eh?

Now I'd imagine adding camera, address book, web, email, SMS, and a QWERTY keyboard to all that mess and you have the CLASSIC ELECTRONIC GADGET of 1970 to 2007!!! This type of gadget's interface is also used in VCRs, laserdisk players, clock radios, car stereos and instrument panels, microwave ovens, etc. - anything where they could save money by not actually putting a knob on there, and making each key serve about 9 different purposes. How many people's VCR used to flash "12:00" because they had no idea which order to push the buttons in to set it?

So instead of changing the interface, out comes "On-screen programming", where you follow a series of hierarchical menus onscreen instead of trying to memorize 93 buttons.

Now, since it never occurred to any of these other cellphone makers, Apple comes out with a phone that you don't have to read an 85 page manual in four languages to find out which button to push to do something, or push a key once, twice or three times to generate a letter.

There's only one button on the front!!!

The same with the iPod - I just finished reading "Inside Steve's Brain", and it describes the design process for the iPod. There were music players that used the laptop hard drives, but again had numerous buttons on the front. Phil Schiller came up with the idea of a wheel that was context-sensitive to control volume while a song was playing, and to control selection while a song was not playing. Also, to sync the iPod all the user had to do is plug it into the computer - that's all. No programs to launch, no dragging and dropping files, nothing.

And the iPod was small and light compared to the others. It had one wheel on the front - that's all. No FM radio, no voice recorder, no wacky slots for memory sticks, none of that crap that makes a confusing mess.

Design - and I don't mean "form over function" - because design means not only exterior design but industrial design - is what Apple excels at. That is why this is a better phone, and why the iPod was a better music player. They go through hundreds of iterations of these things, and the CEO himself examines each one, before deciding on the design. I find it hard to believe that the CEO of the company that made my wireless phone ever looked at the interface or tried to make a call with it, and that is why it sucks ass.

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said by tc1uscg:

Well, since you put it that way.. I think a vast majority of buyers buy it because it's "trendy" (ie, apple). Look at the iPod. It was BY FAR no where near the best MP3 player out there, but marketing put it where it was, those 20 somethings (I call them generation "what about me") who put it where it is. My niece is on her 3rd ipod. I'm still on my 40gb creative labs zen ultra, almost 3 years old) So, does the iPhone make calls better? What does it do BETTER then anything else out there?