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Loweded Wookie · 2 years ago

5 reasons this post is wrong:

1): The current cellphone/MP3 market is shit. It needs Apple to shake it up to make some devices that are simple AND worthy of the pricetag.

2): Apple is selling through one carrier because that one carrier has the services required to get this phone working. Word is that the iPhone is going to be sold through Vodafone in Europe. Apple is going after numbers and services because THAT makes sense not going after someone who's network is crap.

3): I can't believe you tried to pull that one out. How many people actually use Media Center? Stuff all. Because it is a shit product. As is Windows Mobile. Apple invented the PDA market therefore M$ has only followed and has performed a shit job of it. You're missing the point as to what the iPhone is about. It's not about producing something that hasn't been done before, it's about producing a better rat trap.

4): The iPhone has push email like the Blackberry. The iPhone has visual voicemail that the Blackberry DOESN'T have. The iPhone has the ability to have applications that can extend its use into say things like editing Word and Excel documents etc something the BlackBerry CANNOT do. Clutching at straws on this one here mate. Also why do you tangent into the world of AppleTV in a post about the iPhone?

5): One word, PALM. Running just the software that comes with the Palm the unit runs sweetly. Running outside developed apps causes it to fall over more times than a one legged man on a bender. Outside development is a double edged sword. It relies on developers making quality products. Apple KNOWS how to make quality products including software so having complete control is actually a good thing. It means the iPhone is stable and the software isn't bloated and crash happy. Merely because you are a developer doesn't mean that you should have the right to make software for it. Apple knows what it wants the iPhone to do. What piece of glorious software can you really come up with that Apple hasn't thought of yet? The iPhone has/will have GPS, mapping, a webbrowser I seriously doubt you could ever have come up with, an email reader I seriously doubt you could ever have come up with, a voicemail system I seriously doubt you could have come up with, etc. See my point. Apple is ahead of the game so chances are it's already developing stuff that you have thought of and being Apple will do it better than most developers would. Do we really need a bunch of crap software or do we really need a limited supply of seriously powerful and simple to use software? Give me the latter any day of the week.

I don't see how any of your points actually point out any flaws in the iPhone. Like most of the iPhone dejectors you have failed to grasp what the iPhone actually is about. You think about what you want out of the phone but you're a developer and what you want isn't necessarily what the people this phone is aimed at need from a phone. It's developers that have made the current crop of phones such shit in the first place.

I suggest you read some of these articles if you haven't already.

http://roughlydrafted.com/RD/RDM/19A62044-5937-4245-B320-CF4020F7368D.html

uncle_jesse · 2 years ago

@Loweded Wookie, you don't understand - I'm not against the iPhone. I'm just worried it will fail. I'm an Apple user myself, in fact a fanatic. I'm also a realist.

"Also why do you tangent into the world of AppleTV in a post about the iPhone?"

That's what AppleTV is all about! Apple, like Microsoft, wants to take over your living room, in fact, your entire house. The more integration you have with your other products, the more it ties your customers into your products. Microsoft has beat Apple to the punch on this - I think you would be surprised as to how many people use Media Center out there right now. There are entire communities built around it, so I doubt "no one" uses it. Without a gaming console I don't think Apple will have an edge to stand against in the future.

I'm simply writing this as a warning to Apple. They had better keep up the quality, and have a plan to meet the competitive points I mention, or they will not succeed.