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pete_roth wrote:I enjoyed this post. in b4 derFunk
derFunkenstein wrote:pete_roth wrote: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.
axeman wrote: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 wrote:axeman wrote: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.
tfp wrote:You could get an iPhone with no service then you can have the best of both worlds, the phone and no monthly fees.
adisor19 wrote: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).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.
adisor19 wrote: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?Same thing for video recording, it's just an app store visit away.
adisor19 wrote:It is never "enough", especially when it comes to power users, but I would not knock it too much about this.Changeable memory cards ? Now that's just nitpicking when you got 16GB of internal storage.
ReAp3r-G wrote: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?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
derFunkenstein wrote:^ AFAICT that's AT&T's fault, not Apple's.
tfp wrote:You could get an iPhone with no service then you can have the best of both worlds, the phone and no monthly fees.
z-man wrote:derFunkenstein wrote:^ 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.