Apple's iPhone is true progress

[Meadows]

I found a picture and I felt inclined to start a flame war by making a thread about it.
Behold: http://www.qdb.hu/files/6814_51.jpg

Discuss.

[2_tyma]

HAHA! epic.

[steelcity_ballin]

I enjoyed this post. in b4 derFunk

[axeman]

They forgot voice activated dialing, which even my stone-age nokia has.

[lordT]

*sigh*

[adisor19]

*sigh*

If you rather use MMS and get raped per message by your GSM provider, go ahead and download a third party app from the appstore.

Same thing for video recording, it's just an app store visit away.

Video call ? Not sure why Apple left that out actually but i've yet to see anyone use that feature on other phones around these parts.

Changeable memory cards ? Now that's just nitpicking when you got 16GB of internal storage.

There, i took the bait before derFunk

Adi

[derFunkenstein]

I enjoyed this post. in b4 derFunk

I dunno, I"m just not horny for iPhone or iPod. I want to stick the new MacBooks in my pants and rub my schlong all over them, but this doesn't get to me.

[steelcity_ballin]

I enjoyed this post. in b4 derFunk

I dunno, I"m just not horny for iPhone or iPod. I want to stick the new MacBooks in my pants and rub my schlong all over them, but this doesn't get to me.

My gf just bought a new lappy, for another $300 she could have had a new mac book. She's into macs. Oh and if you buy that one app from the app store it might help you with ... ah nevermind.

[axeman]

*sigh*

If you rather use MMS and get raped per message by your GSM provider, go ahead and download a third party app from the appstore.

Same thing for video recording, it's just an app store visit away.

Video call ? Not sure why Apple left that out actually but i've yet to see anyone use that feature on other phones around these parts.

Changeable memory cards ? Now that's just nitpicking when you got 16GB of internal storage.

There, i took the bait before derFunk

Adi

So your defense is you get the same functionality of other phones by paying extra, when the phone already costs more to begin with. Seriously, you need to BUY AN APP to record videos. That's like hardware vendors charging for drivers.

[tfp]

So your defense is you get the same functionality of other phones by paying extra, when the phone already costs more to begin with. Seriously, you need to BUY AN APP to record videos. That's like hardware vendors charging for drivers.

No it's like MSFT charging for office when they could have just included it with windows.

[adisor19]

So your defense is you get the same functionality of other phones by paying extra, when the phone already costs more to begin with. Seriously, you need to BUY AN APP to record videos. That's like hardware vendors charging for drivers.

No it's like MSFT charging for office when they could have just included it with windows.

You're both wrong. Did i say you have to BUY an app ? More then 50% of the apps in the app store are FREE.

Adi

[tfp]

NO YOUR WRONG!



[edit]nnaaa, naaah, naaa naaa, naaaaaah[/edit]

[derFunkenstein]

no, YOU are wrong.

[FroBozz_Inc]

I love the iPhone - I HATE the monthly fees. Maybe this will change someday. Until then my BlackJack2 will have to suffice.

[tfp]

You could get an iPhone with no service then you can have the best of both worlds, the phone and no monthly fees.

[ludi]

You could get an iPhone with no service then you can have the best of both worlds, the phone and no monthly fees.

Ack! The irrefutable logic! It hurts!

[axeman]

So your defense is you get the same functionality of other phones by paying extra, when the phone already costs more to begin with. Seriously, you need to BUY AN APP to record videos. That's like hardware vendors charging for drivers.

No it's like MSFT charging for office when they could have just included it with windows.

You're both wrong. Did i say you have to BUY an app ? More then 50% of the apps in the app store are FREE.

Adi

Hmm, well when I heard the word store I assumed you paid for things. I'm going to try taking 50% of the stuff in Home Depot; I'll get back to you with how it went.

[shaq_mobile]

the iphone is the f22 of phones.

[Alabama_Enigma]

I wasn't aware that the iPhone had a video recorder app at the app store. I thought that was only available if you jailbreak it and download it off the web.

[Sargent Duck]

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=iphone

[ReAp3r-G]

owned...burned...colon-stomped! lol

i do have one thing to correct tho...the iPhone CAN do instant messaging unless the guy totally confused me with the double negatives...but oh well

[Flying Fox]

If you rather use MMS and get raped per message by your GSM provider, go ahead and download a third party app from the appstore.

Video call ? Not sure why Apple left that out actually but i've yet to see anyone use that feature on other phones around these parts.

That basically indicates that Apple is still thinking US first and the rest of the world second. In Europe and Asia MMS are way more popular. Video call is also more viable in those 2 continents because they have better 3/3.5G coverage and the data plan fees are not outrageous (at least now the iphone is managing to bring fees down to saner levels).

Same thing for video recording, it's just an app store visit away.

Sure there are a lot of free apps in the store, but are they good enough? The one that can do video recording, is that one free?

Changeable memory cards ? Now that's just nitpicking when you got 16GB of internal storage.

It is never "enough", especially when it comes to power users, but I would not knock it too much about this.

i do have one thing to correct tho...the iPhone CAN do instant messaging unless the guy totally confused me with the double negatives...but oh well

Instant Messaging is probably referring to IM running in the background like on a computer running AOL/MSN/Live/ICQ/whatever. There was mention about an app that can keep the IM app in the background, but it seems to be removed already?

[prodigy2k7]

The iPhone's plans are LAME. You cant use them with a regular plan, they are more expensive and you get less for what you pay then a regular line.

[derFunkenstein]

^ AFAICT that's AT&T's fault, not Apple's.

[zgirl]

^ AFAICT that's AT&T's fault, not Apple's.

How do you know? Perhaps the margins for hardware are so low because of what apple is charging for it, causes ATT to nickel and dime the user more to cover the cost and making it affordable? While ATT gets better prices from other hardware vendors. Would you buy the phone if the service plan was %50 cheaper but the phone cost twice as much to get out the door?

Not saying this is true, but making that claim is ignorant in my opinion. You would have to look at the contracts other hardware vendors give ATT and compare them to Apples.

[FroBozz_Inc]

It would be interesting if AT&T did had an option to charge you cheaper monthly fees in exchange for paying more up front for the iPhone.
Maybe by the time the 3rd generation comes other carriers will have them too, and there will be more competition with the data plans, etc.
That's what I hope for anyway.

[just brew it!]

My take on the iPhone...

Plus: Very good user interface.

Minus: High cost, vendor (both Apple and AT&T) lock-in, requirement that you become a lifetime card-carrying member of the Cult of Jobs. (Just kidding about that last one... well sort of.)

Meh. I'll never buy one. The only reasons that Apple is "less evil" than Microsoft are that Apple is better at user interface design, and Microsoft is bigger.

[lordT]

You can always unlock and be happy.

Just curious, what phones do you people have?

[FroBozz_Inc]

Samsung BlackJack 2.

JUST bought my wife a dark purple Sony Ericsson z750 to replace her 3 year old pink Motorola SLVR that my daughter decided to remove buttons on.

[mattsteg]

You could get an iPhone with no service then you can have the best of both worlds, the phone and no monthly fees.

Or an ipod touch.