iPhone Sucks and Apple are Bastards

[King James]

Originally Posted by Tazziedevil

I'm not an apple guy.

I have a blackberry and love it- I can't imagine a less useful phone than the iphone- you HAVE to sync it with iTunes, no multitasking, no tactile feedback with typing, no user replaceable battery or memory card support.
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You don't have to sync it with itunes, and it has multitasking soon (really awesome if you saw the vid)

Tactile feedback is sort of a personal choice so cannot comment on that.

The non-user replaceable battery is a *****, tho.

I can think of something less useful though, its called a WiMo phone! lol. I don't care who you are thats funny right there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3XdOl5YtLg

[Mugen910]

Originally Posted by King James

I can think of something less useful though, its called a WiMo phone! lol. I don't care who you are thats funny right there.

[VirtualSmitty]

Saw this post on gizmodo and went damn:

http://gizmodo.com/5513619/all-amazo...ale-for-1-cent

Then saw Droid phone for 20 and went double damn!

http://wireless.amazon.com/Motorola-...ref=sh_br_ph_1

I might have traded in my first gen iphone for the droid if I didn't have to use verizon.

[spectrrr]

Originally Posted by VirtualSmitty

I might have traded in my first gen iphone for the droid if I didn't have to use verizon.

I'd go back to my old winmo phone *shudder* before giving up Verizon....

[VirtualSmitty]

Originally Posted by spectrrr

I'd go back to my old winmo phone *shudder* before giving up Verizon....

Not if you went through what I went through bwith Verizon customer service

It's funny how i've trended with my phones. My first cell phone I had ATT until I had a billing problem, then I switched to Verizon. Had Verizon for a few years, iPhone came out (didn't care cause it was ATT), bashed early adopters getting stuck with ATT, then had an issue with Verizon, worst customer service experience of my life, dropped em and bought an iPhone. ATT isn't perfect, I do get more dropped calls and it is more expensive, but I don't mind. Not an Apple fanboy by any stretch, but I love my iPhone.

[Tazziedevil]

Originally Posted by King James

You don't have to sync it with itunes, and it has multitasking soon (really awesome if you saw the vid)

Tactile feedback is sort of a personal choice so cannot comment on that.

The non-user replaceable battery is a *****, tho.

I can think of something less useful though, its called a WiMo phone! lol. I don't care who you are thats funny right there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3XdOl5YtLg

I don't find iTunes a useful program. It's buggy and bloated, slow, and I like to drag and drop files to my phone/mp3 player- which I couldn't do with my iPod.

I don't blindly hate apple, I have used several apple products, and I find them to be overhyped and underwhelming. i.e.:It's taken apple 3 years to figure out that people like to do more than one thing at a time?

The BIGGEST problem is the lack of memory card support. For professionals who do lots of work on their phone, not being able to back up presentations, quotes, invoices and receipts to a removable card is ridiculous. Imagine doing hours of work, then losing it all due to theft, misplacing your phone, or breaking.

[AD720]

Originally Posted by Tazziedevil

I don't find iTunes a useful program. It's buggy and bloated, slow, and I like to drag and drop files to my phone/mp3 player- which I couldn't do with my iPod.

I don't blindly hate apple, I have used several apple products, and I find them to be overhyped and underwhelming. i.e.:It's taken apple 3 years to figure out that people like to do more than one thing at a time?

The BIGGEST problem is the lack of memory card support. For professionals who do lots of work on their phone, not being able to back up presentations, quotes, invoices and receipts to a removable card is ridiculous. Imagine doing hours of work, then losing it all due to theft, misplacing your phone, or breaking.

How exactly would a memory card (that is in your phone) benefit you in those two situations?

[Tazziedevil]

Originally Posted by AD720

How exactly would a memory card (that is in your phone) benefit you in those two situations?

If it was in your phone it wouldn't. But if you back up your work to a removable card, then put the card in a seperate location you would have a backup. But Apple doesn't think this is a good idea somehow.
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[Tazziedevil]

Originally Posted by Tazziedevil

If it was in your phone it wouldn't. But if you back up your work to a removable card, then put the card in a seperate location you would have a backup. But Apple doesn't think this is a good idea somehow

I'm a wedding photographer, and just tonight the groom had written his speech on his iPhone. All good until hour dropped his iphone, shattered the screen and lost his speech- and he had to wing it at the reception. If only he could have had a "off site" backup.
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[AD720]

Originally Posted by Tazziedevil

If it was in your phone it wouldn't. But if you back up your work to a removable card, then put the card in a seperate location you would have a backup. But Apple doesn't think this is a good idea somehow.

I'm a wedding photographer, and just tonight the groom had written his speech on his iPhone. All good until hour dropped his iphone, shattered the screen and lost his speech- and he had to wing it at the reception. If only he could have had a "off site" backup.
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Originally Posted by Tazziedevil

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I don't have an iPhone but I'm pretty sure that you can make a complete back up on iTunes and restore it to a different or new iPhone whenever. Someone with an iPhone can confirm or dis-confirm...

Also, in your wedding scenario, an hour before the ceremony I don't see how an offsight backup would have helped? Dropping the phone and shattering the screen could happen to any phone. Is he going to drive to the store and buy a new phone then drive to his home or office where he has his backup memory card stored?

I usually don't get into these debates but for being such a major complaint, in 75% of the scenarios you've described memory card storage wouldn't help at all...

I'm not trying to defend the iPhone. Like I said, I don't have one.

[GTCanuk]

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"Also, in your wedding scenario, an hour before the ceremony I don't see how an offsight backup would have helped? Dropping the phone and shattering the screen could happen to any phone. Is he going to drive to the store and buy a new phone then drive to his home or office where he has his backup memory card stored?"

In this case is somebody else had another Iphone just take the card out and put in the other person's and presto

[shilala]

Originally Posted by Tazziedevil

I don't find iTunes a useful program. It's buggy and bloated, slow, and I like to drag and drop files to my phone/mp3 player- which I couldn't do with my iPod.

I don't blindly hate apple, I have used several apple products, and I find them to be overhyped and underwhelming. i.e.:It's taken apple 3 years to figure out that people like to do more than one thing at a time?

The BIGGEST problem is the lack of memory card support. For professionals who do lots of work on their phone, not being able to back up presentations, quotes, invoices and receipts to a removable card is ridiculous. Imagine doing hours of work, then losing it all due to theft, misplacing your phone, or breaking.

I'm not an itunes fan either, but aside from jailbreaking my iphone, I'm stuck with it.
At times I've had as many as a dozen ipods, I used to sell them at ebay. I've never used itunes with them. I always used Ephpod for file transfer and tagrunner for automatically fixing my tags and adding lyrics.
I'm sincerely hoping that someday itunes wont suck, and it is getting better slowly.
As soon as I find something that'll work with my iphone (and I haven't looked recently), I'm sure I'll move away from itunes again.

[King James]

Originally Posted by Tazziedevil

I don't find iTunes a useful program. It's buggy and bloated, slow, and I like to drag and drop files to my phone/mp3 player- which I couldn't do with my iPod.

I don't blindly hate apple, I have used several apple products, and I find them to be overhyped and underwhelming. i.e.:It's taken apple 3 years to figure out that people like to do more than one thing at a time?

The BIGGEST problem is the lack of memory card support. For professionals who do lots of work on their phone, not being able to back up presentations, quotes, invoices and receipts to a removable card is ridiculous. Imagine doing hours of work, then losing it all due to theft, misplacing your phone, or breaking.

I could understand how people used to having a removable drive would not like the idea of not having one. I have a card in my Droid and have never taken it out. And for apple, the ability to sync with your idisk (if you have one) sort of would settle that problem for me..... but not everyone would be satisfied.

I don't think apple is for everyone, its just people that can't say "I just prefer having these options that apple doesn't offer" instead of "apple blows! they can't do this or this or this and PC has since 1988!"

The bashing without citing facts (or citing facts that are ridiculously inaccurate lol) just irks me