bashing the iPhone for giggles

[football_scooter 0]

apparently not.

 

lmao

 

http://www.10zenmonkeys.com/2007/01/11/iph...-vs-bill-gates/

 

http://www.who-sucks.com/tech/15-reasons-w...es-iphone-sucks

 

all spot on. $600 for a PDA/Phone that's already obsolete technology-wise, offers nothing that's not already on the market and is klugey at best to use?

 

No thanks.

 

iPhone = iSh!t.

 

 

is anyone here going to buy one of these POS's?

[BMoney 0]

let me guess...

 

they ran out before your turn in line came up?

 

that sux

[NJJoe20 0]

I too, think it's insane to pay $600 for a phone that is probably giving its users a huge brain tumor. But whatever floats your boat, and well, the chicks dig it...

[football_scooter 0]

let me guess...

 

they ran out before your turn in line came up?

 

that sux

 

Uhm, no. I pretty well detest all cell phones and carry one because my line of work dictates that I need to carry one. (yes, the other french fry guy might call in sick at any moment, thx)

 

But as a technologist I am trying to look at it realistically and I just don't see what's worth $600.

 

I think they'll sell a crapload of them & in a few short months people are going to realize that they're getting similar or superior feature sets from their existing cell phone/PDA's.

 

Looking at the list of limitations on this thing, reading the performance reviews and seeing that it lacks much functionality of existing devices that cost $100-$200 (or are free with a plan) I think this will go down as one of the biggest rip-offs ever.

 

Thanks for asking though.

[Let Da Big Dog Eat 40]

I learned a long time ago when digital watches first came out. Any new(er) technology is way over-priced. Digital watches dropped massively in price in a matter of months. Then, they started giving them away in cereal boxes. I just got a $100 only because I need a camera phone. Otherwise, I would never pay anything for one as carriers all offer a new, free phone every 2 years.

 

I've seen nothing that the iphone does that mine doesn't.

[CantTouchThis 23]

Sorry, but, the iPhone looks absolutely incredible, anyone that says otherwise either just hate technology or are jealous because they can't get one, or they just like to hate what most people like just to be an a-hole.

 

With that said, there is no way i am willing to spend 600 dollars on something i can get, that is a bit less advanced, for about 1/10 of the money, or even for free. I am actually shopping for a cell and plan, but, most plans will give you a free phone that has a lot of the same stuff that the iphone or other really expensive phones have.

[football_scooter 0]

Sorry, but, the iPhone looks absolutely incredible, anyone that says otherwise either just hate technology or are jealous because they can't get one, or they just like to hate what most people like just to be an a-hole.

 

With that said, there is no way i am willing to spend 600 dollars on something i can get, that is a bit less advanced, for about 1/10 of the money, or even for free. I am actually shopping for a cell and plan, but, most plans will give you a free phone that has a lot of the same stuff that the iphone or other really expensive phones have.

 

This is bizarre. First you say that if I don't thin the iPhone is "incredible" that I am either a technophobe, jealous or like to pee on people's cheerios just to be a grinch.

 

Then you go on to agree with everything I said in your second paragraph.

 

uh, yeah.

 

The fact is that the performance of the streaming video is not as good as advertised, the HD is tiny, battery life low, battery built in, and most importantly, the touch screen is glass. Let me repeat that: the touch-screen is glass. As in, sit on it once....drop it once...and your $600 is cracked. Ouch. And even worse, it's not java or shockwave compatable, so all that Internet you thought you could get? Yeah - good luck with that.

 

Screw the iPhone. They're selling it as some revolution of technology....I've worked in technology for over a decade and I'm thoroughly unimpressed by the iPhone, and wholeheartedly disagree that it represents some sort of paradigm shift.

 

It's a MP3 player, internet ready telephone with a touch screen and a couple of nifty gadgets built in, many of which you'll never use. It's yet another vehicle for Apple to sell you music downloads, and people are going to gobble that sh!t up. Apple will make nother big nut until they figure out how to recycle other existing technology and claim that they're changing the world with it.

 

Word is that they might even have to change the name, since Cisco seems to already own the rights to iPhone. Oops.

 

Anyway, like I said - if you want one, buy one. But you seem to completely agree with me that you can get the same features on any other phone for less so I don't see why you're defending it.

[EMoney 0]

The battery life is what deters me the most. As quickly as my ipod runs out of juice is not what I want with my cell phone.

[Uh-huh 0]

The iPhone is the lastest proof this old saying is true: "There's a sucker born every minute".

 

Apple's marketing department has to be the best in the business.

[Thornton Melon 620]

The iPhone is gay.

[IGotWorms 4,058]

I'll just say this: I would feel pretty gay busting out an iphone in the bar.

[heavy-set 39]

if you dont like it, thats cool, but if you need a phone, ipod, camera etc, all in 1, iam sure its worth it

 

 

too bad they didnt sell more, only 200k

 

http://blogs.business2.com/apple/2007/06/a...-sells-100.html

[Uh-huh 0]

if you dont like it, thats cool, but if you need a phone, ipod, camera etc, all in 1, iam sure its worth it

Already have one. It's called a Smartphone and has all of the features you've mentioned, plus a video camera, real-time over the network synchronization with my corporate Exchange server, a real keypad and at 1/3 the price.

 

The genius of Apple's marketing department is how they've convinced people the iPhone is the first cellphone that can function as an all in one device.

[BMoney 0]

Uhm, no. I pretty well detest all cell phones and carry one because my line of work dictates that I need to carry one. (yes, the other french fry guy might call in sick at any moment, thx)

 

But as a technologist I am trying to look at it realistically and I just don't see what's worth $600.

 

I think they'll sell a crapload of them & in a few short months people are going to realize that they're getting similar or superior feature sets from their existing cell phone/PDA's.

 

Looking at the list of limitations on this thing, reading the performance reviews and seeing that it lacks much functionality of existing devices that cost $100-$200 (or are free with a plan) I think this will go down as one of the biggest rip-offs ever.

 

Thanks for asking though.

 

 

meh..i was just going for a quick jab....

 

if i could waste a day and sell it on eBay...id have bought one..

 

but i dont need one now...let someone else come out with something cheaper..sleeker..hell, im not on the phone THAT much..and i dont need to check out the fft when im out..its just TNG on here anyway...look at meeeeeeeeee! im on your phone..

[CantTouchThis 23]

This is bizarre. First you say that if I don't thin the iPhone is "incredible" that I am either a technophobe, jealous or like to pee on people's cheerios just to be a grinch.

 

Then you go on to agree with everything I said in your second paragraph.

 

uh, yeah.

 

The fact is that the performance of the streaming video is not as good as advertised, the HD is tiny, battery life low, battery built in, and most importantly, the touch screen is glass. Let me repeat that: the touch-screen is glass. As in, sit on it once....drop it once...and your $600 is cracked. Ouch. And even worse, it's not java or shockwave compatable, so all that Internet you thought you could get? Yeah - good luck with that.

 

Screw the iPhone. They're selling it as some revolution of technology....I've worked in technology for over a decade and I'm thoroughly unimpressed by the iPhone, and wholeheartedly disagree that it represents some sort of paradigm shift.

 

It's a MP3 player, internet ready telephone with a touch screen and a couple of nifty gadgets built in, many of which you'll never use. It's yet another vehicle for Apple to sell you music downloads, and people are going to gobble that sh!t up. Apple will make nother big nut until they figure out how to recycle other existing technology and claim that they're changing the world with it.

 

Word is that they might even have to change the name, since Cisco seems to already own the rights to iPhone. Oops.

 

Anyway, like I said - if you want one, buy one. But you seem to completely agree with me that you can get the same features on any other phone for less so I don't see why you're defending it.

 

I am saying I am not going to buy it basically because it's too much money. I am not denying that it looks incredible, if i was the type of person who is willing to spend top dollar on the lastest technology, i would buy it. I usually like to wait a couple years while they work out the kinks and the price plumets before i buy one. A few years ago, a camera phone was the latest thing, now, they are on every single phone, many are for free.

 

Again, it does like really awesome and i do want one, but, i am about to take out around 35+ grand in student loans for college, anything that costs 600 bucks is pretty much about 599 dollars out of my price range right now.

[football_scooter 0]

I am saying I am not going to buy it basically because it's too much money. I am not denying that it looks incredible, if i was the type of person who is willing to spend top dollar on the lastest technology, i would buy it. I usually like to wait a couple years while they work out the kinks and the price plumets before i buy one. A few years ago, a camera phone was the latest thing, now, they are on every single phone, many are for free.

 

Again, it does like really awesome and i do want one, but, i am about to take out around 35+ grand in student loans for college, anything that costs 600 bucks is pretty much about 599 dollars out of my price range right now.

 

That's what I don't understand...how is this "the latest technology"?

 

They've had cell phone PDAs that do more than the iPhone out for months. The Zune has longer battery life, greatter HD capacity and s also internet ready. In fact, it's moreso because it supports flash & java while the iPhone doesn't.

 

How can it be the "latest technology" when it doesn't even support the latest internet technology?

 

the only things unique to the iPhone are the touch screen (which isn't that unique since my HP PDA has that) and the built-in link to the weather internet site. Wow...$599 well spent.

[FranksTanks 0]

That's what I don't understand...how is this "the latest technology"?

 

They've had cell phone PDAs that do more than the iPhone out for months. The Zune has longer battery life, greatter HD capacity and s also internet ready. In fact, it's moreso because it supports flash & java while the iPhone doesn't.

 

How can it be the "latest technology" when it doesn't even support the latest internet technology?

 

the only things unique to the iPhone are the touch screen (which isn't that unique since my HP PDA has that) and the built-in link to the weather internet site. Wow...$599 well spent.

 

Maybe this review will help. It sounds like this guy didn't want to like the device either, but he actually got his hands on one and loves it.

 

E-mail and web-browsing are unbelievably great. Ditto the crisp music and video playback. Everybody I called with the iPhone remarked on the crispness and clarity of the audio. For the iPhone, Apple has brought to market a revolutionarily smart, sensitive touchscreen and created an entirely new user interface to match it, all in one go, so seamlessly that my 3-year-old daughter — and I apologize for going to this place, but the fact is striking nonetheless — had no trouble unlocking the iPhone and dialing with it (even though she believed that she was playing a musical instrument).

 

Voice mail — you pick and choose visually what messages you want to hear — and Google Maps are ridiculously useful. The user interface is crammed with smart little touches — every moment of user interaction has been quietly stage-managed and orchestrated, with such overwhelming attention to detail that when the history of digital interface design is written, whoever managed this project at Apple will be hailed as a Michelangelo, and the iPhone his or her Sistine Chapel (Steve Jobs can be Pope in this scenario). If you're not a reviewer, chances are you won't even bother to look at the manual. Translucent, jewel-like, artfully phrased dialogue boxes come and go on cue. Window borders bounce and flex just slightly to cue the user where and how you're supposed to drop and drag and scroll them. When you switch the phone to "airplane mode" (no electronic transmissions, for use on planes) a tasteful little orange airplane slides into the menu bar, then zooms away when you switch out again. (This was so pleasurable that I repeatedly entered airplane mode while using the iPhone, even though I wasn't actually on an airplane.) As soon as my phone realized it belonged to someone with a nonsense-name like Lev, it started correcting typos like "Leb" and "Lec" to match.

One could go on. And sure, you and I and Danny Fanboy over there could come up with a list of nitpicks a yard long, too. (Did I mention that the camera photos have a strange glowy, vaseline-y quality to them? And personally I like a hardware button to press to take pictures, instead of software, placed parallel to the plane of the device, or I end up with shakey images. And either my thumbs are bigger than normal people's, or it really is tricky to type on this thing.) It's certaintly tempting to. The hype for the iPhone has been so relentless — witness the screaming Yahoos outside the Apple store — that to praise the phone feels a bit like you're falling for a sales pitch. Resist the temptation. This thing is a marvel.

But to look at the iPhone as a laundry list of features and bugs is to miss the point (though if you did, the former would commandingly outweigh the latter). The iPhone isn't just the gadget du jour, it's a fresh new platform, an exceptionally powerful mobile computer that's still in its infancy. There's a full version of Apple's desktop operating system in there. The Palm and the Treo, et al., were merely harbingers of the era of true walk-around mobile computing that Jobs has just inaugurated. Hail to the chief.

http://www.time.com/time/business/article/...feed-cnn-topics

[football_scooter 0]

Maybe this review will help. It sounds like this guy didn't want to like the device either, but he actually got his hands on one and loves it.

http://www.time.com/time/business/article/...feed-cnn-topics

 

 

far far different than the 3 reviews I've read that bashed it for being slow, incompatable with many websites, no musical ringtones, ridiculously small HD and inability to synch with corporate mail clients.

 

So you'll still need a blackberry. Swell.

[cowboyz 2]

it's not the hardware, but the software. apple takes a proven concept and makes user friendly software to use it. just like the ipod.

[Yer mom 2]

MAAAAYBE a year or two from now, after the guinea pigs weed out the lemons. Running out to buy one now seems awfully homersexual unless its provided by your company free

[Mephisto 15]

if you dont like it, thats cool, but if you need a phone, ipod, camera etc, all in 1, iam sure its worth it

too bad they didnt sell more, only 200k

 

Ummm... my LG VX9800 is all that and more, thanks.

 

- 2 megapixel camera and videos.

- MP3 player (with my 1GB chip, I have nearly 17-hours of music in it and can play it on full volume in excess of 5-hours without my standard battery running out).

- GPS

- Internet

- Email

- Other than blowing me, I can't think of much my phone can't do.

 

It doesn't appear to display quite as "neat" as the iGouge, but I got my phone for free after a little haggling with Verizon.

 

Enjoy your iGouge.

[hoytdwow 202]

I'd be geeked if one of these companies would put out a phone that is a phone only, with 12 buttons, an ear and mouth piece and the ability to store a handful of phone numbers that works every time you dial a number.

 

Until then,

[Snuff 10]

Have no need for one. Same with a cell phone. I never had a need for one, so I do not have one.

[Cdub100 3,903]

- Other than blowing me, I can't think of much my phone can't do.

 

Didn't want to pay for the upgrade?

[RicemanX 20]

The truth is that I use my phone to call people, sometimes text and play games. But the only reason I would want the iphone is because it looks cool. But for $600...no thank you.

Seriously, for $600, people with iphones will be forced to do other stuff with the phone, add applications and other useless crap that they never use, but will show people when showing off their iphone. But in the end, you paid 600 for something that makes phone calls.

[FranksTanks 0]

I dropped into the Apple store this weekend and played with one and I thought it was pretty amazing. The best part though was the mp3 player. It was really cool scrolling through the tracks with the touch screen. The screen resolution was awesome too, videos looked vary crisp, and it was really easy to use. Like every other review I've read, the typing on the screen was a little cumbersome but I bet after time you would get used to it.

I would love to get one, but not until it is cheaper and if you can get on the internet, you should be able to download music straight to the phone without having to connect it to the computer.

I don't mind waiting a few years for one. It will only get bigger and better over time.