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Re: I think we need a new forum. said by fiberguy:Now why in the world should my iPhone not have unlimited texting or picture mail while a black berry can have it? or a razer, or any other cell phone? Where in the world do you come up with that crazy idea? I didn't say that. I said that at first iPhone users should be limited so to ease the strain onto the network so AT&T can identify trouble spots and upgrade the towers as needed. Then after the trial then they can have unlimited.
said by fiberguy:The REASON that they are FEARED that the iPhone could cause service problems is becuase the iPhone USER BASE is MORE likely to utilize the phone's capabilities over other phone users. People seek out the iPhone becuase of what it can do.. people don't rush to the Razer or a Motorola phone simply becuase of the features they advertise. No disagreement there, but then again the only other "smartphone" platform (note not a "featurephone") before iPhone was WM and blackberry. Blackberry was targeted towards businesses, and WM wasn't marketed AT ALL. I can tell you the last time I saw a Blackberry commercial, can you tell me the last time you say an ad for WM?
One of the main reasons people rushed to the iPhone was the publicity surrounding it. Apple advertised it as a phone for the average person.
said by fiberguy:iPhone users tend to be more geeks and want all the apps and to use the phone for all it's worth. If all people wanted was a phone that could make calls, text, and send a picture, they can get that in just about any phone. You take the millions of iPhone users who WILL use the phone for what it's worth and flip the switch at the same time, you're dang right you're likely to see bottlenecks.. we had problems on launch day here in MN.. messages wouldn't send... Exactly my point, they should have gradually turned on the feature for random customers not just flipped the switch and huddled in a corner and prayed.
said by fiberguy:You are right they should have phased phones in over time, not all at one time. They could have turned on phones in groups over a few weeks which would have been a smarter idea. Agreed.
said by fiberguy:As for your comment about the iPhone working out of the box.. ummmmmmm, it does work out of the box. "Out of the box" it did not support MMS functionality, did it not? You can't slam the phone for not being able to do something it was never marketed on.. it wasn't able to do picture mail until the 25th.. prior to that, you could do everything they said you could.. you could make calls, text, use apps, play music, surf the internet.. what else? What you are trying to do is twist things up here to support an anti-apple rant and it's not going to work. Now, if they said "you can text" and you get the phone and it couldn't text, well, then you'd have a leg to stand on. So guess what.. it works out of the box... Jail-breaking is borderline hacking.. nice try. Where was copy and paste?
Multi-tasking?
I do not consider a modern OS to even be qualified as an OS without a user ability to multi-task. DOS was the last OS that I know of that couldn't multi-task. To add insult to injury, even webOSes are multi-tasking.
Please do explain how jail-breaking is borderline hacking? are you in favor or against Apple labeling all jail-breakers as criminals?
In fact Apple even advertised the iPhone as having MMS and there have been lawsuits on it: »news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10321437-37.html
Here is where I bring personal experiences -
My supervisor got an iPhone, it worked for awhile...but then he must have dropped it or sat on it because he had this like black blotch on the screen. Let me tell you, I have dropped my other phones and they are still working fine. Then one day the battery would only last for about an hour.
My co-worker got an iPhone and he had problems launching apps. Everytime they would launch, they would exit. The only way to fix this was to remove the last installed app. Don't know if he ever got it fixed.
My other co-workers iPhone supposedly worked fine for him.
So, 2/3 people who I personally know who have iPhones had problems with them. It could just be my dumb luck, but if you were in my position would you not think that isn't a good ratio?
My personal opinion about the iPhone and Apple. Apple could have wiped the floor with the iPhone, easily. All they had to do is have all the features they have now and allowed third party programs to be installed and you wanna see the iPhone outpass any abilities that any other mobile device has? As long as Apple has a death grip on what applications you can install on YOUR OWN DEVICE that you paid for, then I don't see it as a competitor to any other smartphone on the market. And you can't use the "well Apple is trying to protect the consumers from viruses and malware". That is BS and we both know it. Here are some stats for WM and Symbian viruses: »www.viruslist.com/en/analysis?pu···04791922
22 viruses and 186 variants. WM has been out for how long and doesn't seem to be that much of a target? Especially since you can install and run all sorts of third party programs. My point is Apple basically brands it's users as "simple" and incapable of using a simple mobile device without screwing it up to the point where they don't have full access to the file system, settings, and able to install third party programs. They even claim they haven't "rejected" Google voice because it duplicates functionality. Are their users THAT STUPID that they can't figure out the difference between using the built in calling functions and Google voice? That is the message I am getting. This is why I give anti-Apple rhetoric. To me the iPhone is not a phone, it's just a toy - at least that is again what it appears to me because Apple seems to be going on a lot of how you can play games on it.... |
