Finally. I have figured out what I am going to do with my weekend.
I do not like, nor care for, underwater basket weaving. Therefore, I am going to go find a underwater basket weaving community forum, and I'm going to go on there and tell them everything that is wrong with their sport, just to emasculate myself and make it seem as if I have any clue what the hell I'm talking about!
Thanks for starting some **** today, Jerry Springer.
Steve Jobs always walks on the dark side of life, and his introduction of the iphone earlier in the year is just another one of those occasions. (Anyone who has read iWoz will know what I am referring to.)
What will the iphone not do:
Before I go into the various functions that the iphone lacks, Steve's Job's (Apple Computer's) official mantra is that iphone is not a computer to most of one's questions.
1. It does not have the basic "cut and paste" that most PDAs have. The iphone is actually a regression in that respect. (Mantra, This is not a computer)
2. It will not do streaming video. Mantra; It is not a computer
3. The iPod features will not play back through any blue tooth features, nor will it play back through your car stereo using the normal "monster cable" to select an fm station. Mantra; It is not a computer
4. No arrow keys to maneuver your way on text. All that is offered is a backwards moving delete key, or you can try stabbing the iphone screen in order to reposition the cursor. Mantra; It is not a computer
5. Blue tooth head set use to work both ways with my Treo 650, with the iphone, it only works with out going calls not incoming. I have the Plantronics 510. Mantra; It is not a computer
6. The iphone is mostly a slave unit of the laptop computer. Most of the syncing is one way with the real work being done at the computer end, not at the iphone end. Example, one can not create a group in the iphone address book (contacts), it has to be done at the computer end. Mantra; It is not a computer
7. There is no sync with the home computer of the iphone widget notes. No, it does not sync with sticky notes. It sort of hangs out there in "Job's Limbo land." Mantra; It is not a computer
8. The iphone will not stand up to a normal daily usage without having to recharge its batteries at least once during the day. At the rate of power usage it consumes, the battery will not last long, in-spite of the Apple's mantra of it lasting longer than anything on the market. It is interesting to note that when the iphone was released, Apple also released a formal statement where they would charge you $75.00 to replace the iphone battery, and rent you an iphone for $29.00. Talk about lack of confidence in your own product. How much of a no brainer would it have been to put a door on the back of your iphone and have the user change their own battery. Mantra; It is not a computer. (Was Job's serious that he has 250 patents on this device.)
Job's needs to get some serious fixes out to the market place soon, otherwise the Asian market will eat him up when they bring out their "reversed engineered" versions of the iphone at Christmas time.
When I questioned the Apple rep on the mantra of "it is not a computer" I told him to go back and review Steve Job's "dog and pony show performance" that he presented at the mac convention, and also review his statement that there would be a delay in the release of the Leopard operating system for the laptop and desktop, because the software engineers responsible for that, were working on the release of the iphone system since the iphone was to be a mini version of the Mac OS X system. I also asked about the fact that some of the iphone's operating system's features were only one way, residing mostly in the lap top end. His reply was that they now refer to the operating system of the iphone as the OS X, they removed the word Mac, before Mac OS X, so that consumers would not be confused. Talk about a snow job. ( or maybe instead of calling it a snow job, one would be correct in calling it a "Steve Job."
My take on this, is that the phone was not ready for prime time, and that it should have been released about a year later. However, when you can add close to a half million dollars to your profit margin within a week, greed always wins out. Thus, we have become beta testers for Apple's iphone, and here I thought that this only occurred with Microsoft in the release of its operating systems.
When you hype your product as much as Job's has, one would expect forward stepping to what one is already accustom to, not several steps backward. Besides the lack of a "cut & paste" feature, I have noticed that I do not have the same coverage with my same Cingular account that I previously had with my Treo 650 using Cingular. The antenna on the iphone is weak, and it drops calls more frequently than I ever encountered with my Treo 650, using the same carrier.
That is why I made the opening statement that the iphone is more fiction than reality!!!! If you trying to decide on whether the iphone is for you, WAIT until Apple gets it right. Who knows maybe Job's will wake up to the bad press that is soon to follow this device, or maybe his Asian competitors' will release their product with a "step forward" type of technology.
Steve Jobs always walks on the dark side of life, and his introduction of the iphone earlier in the year is just another one of those occasions. (Anyone who has read iWoz will know what I am referring to.)
What will the iphone not do:
Before I go into the various functions that the iphone lacks, Steve's Job's (Apple Computer's) official mantra is that iphone is not a computer to most of one's questions.
1. It does not have the basic "cut and paste" that most PDAs have. The iphone is actually a regression in that respect. (Mantra, This is not a computer)
2. It will not do streaming video. Mantra; It is not a computer
3. The iPod features will not play back through any blue tooth features, nor will it play back through your car stereo using the normal "monster cable" to select an fm station. Mantra; It is not a computer
4. No arrow keys to maneuver your way on text. All that is offered is a backwards moving delete key, or you can try stabbing the iphone screen in order to reposition the cursor. Mantra; It is not a computer
5. Blue tooth head set use to work both ways with my Treo 650, with the iphone, it only works with out going calls not incoming. I have the Plantronics 510. Mantra; It is not a computer
6. The iphone is mostly a slave unit of the laptop computer. Most of the syncing is one way with the real work being done at the computer end, not at the iphone end. Example, one can not create a group in the iphone address book (contacts), it has to be done at the computer end. Mantra; It is not a computer
7. There is no sync with the home computer of the iphone widget notes. No, it does not sync with sticky notes. It sort of hangs out there in "Job's Limbo land." Mantra; It is not a computer
8. The iphone will not stand up to a normal daily usage without having to recharge its batteries at least once during the day. At the rate of power usage it consumes, the battery will not last long, in-spite of the Apple's mantra of it lasting longer than anything on the market. It is interesting to note that when the iphone was released, Apple also released a formal statement where they would charge you $75.00 to replace the iphone battery, and rent you an iphone for $29.00. Talk about lack of confidence in your own product. How much of a no brainer would it have been to put a door on the back of your iphone and have the user change their own battery. Mantra; It is not a computer. (Was Job's serious that he has 250 patents on this device.)
Job's needs to get some serious fixes out to the market place soon, otherwise the Asian market will eat him up when they bring out their "reversed engineered" versions of the iphone at Christmas time.
When I questioned the Apple rep on the mantra of "it is not a computer" I told him to go back and review Steve Job's "dog and pony show performance" that he presented at the mac convention, and also review his statement that there would be a delay in the release of the Leopard operating system for the laptop and desktop, because the software engineers responsible for that, were working on the release of the iphone system since the iphone was to be a mini version of the Mac OS X system. I also asked about the fact that some of the iphone's operating system's features were only one way, residing mostly in the lap top end. His reply was that they now refer to the operating system of the iphone as the OS X, they removed the word Mac, before Mac OS X, so that consumers would not be confused. Talk about a snow job. ( or maybe instead of calling it a snow job, one would be correct in calling it a "Steve Job."
My take on this, is that the phone was not ready for prime time, and that it should have been released about a year later. However, when you can add close to a half million dollars to your profit margin within a week, greed always wins out. Thus, we have become beta testers for Apple's iphone, and here I thought that this only occurred with Microsoft in the release of its operating systems.
When you hype your product as much as Job's has, one would expect forward stepping to what one is already accustom to, not several steps backward. Besides the lack of a "cut & paste" feature, I have noticed that I do not have the same coverage with my same Cingular account that I previously had with my Treo 650 using Cingular. The antenna on the iphone is weak, and it drops calls more frequently than I ever encountered with my Treo 650, using the same carrier.
That is why I made the opening statement that the iphone is more fiction than reality!!!! If you trying to decide on whether the iphone is for you, WAIT until Apple gets it right. Who knows maybe Job's will wake up to the bad press that is soon to follow this device, or maybe his Asian competitors' will release their product with a "step forward" type of technology.
After reading your commentary or whatever the **** you want to call it I went and returned my iphone.....are you satisfied?
Steve Jobs always walks on the dark side of life, and his introduction of the iphone earlier in the year is just another one of those occasions. (Anyone who has read iWoz will know what I am referring to.)
What will the iphone not do:
Before I go into the various functions that the iphone lacks, Steve's Job's (Apple Computer's) official mantra is that iphone is not a computer to most of one's questions.
1. It does not have the basic "cut and paste" that most PDAs have. The iphone is actually a regression in that respect. (Mantra, This is not a computer)
2. It will not do streaming video. Mantra; It is not a computer
3. The iPod features will not play back through any blue tooth features, nor will it play back through your car stereo using the normal "monster cable" to select an fm station. Mantra; It is not a computer
4. No arrow keys to maneuver your way on text. All that is offered is a backwards moving delete key, or you can try stabbing the iphone screen in order to reposition the cursor. Mantra; It is not a computer
5. Blue tooth head set use to work both ways with my Treo 650, with the iphone, it only works with out going calls not incoming. I have the Plantronics 510. Mantra; It is not a computer
6. The iphone is mostly a slave unit of the laptop computer. Most of the syncing is one way with the real work being done at the computer end, not at the iphone end. Example, one can not create a group in the iphone address book (contacts), it has to be done at the computer end. Mantra; It is not a computer
7. There is no sync with the home computer of the iphone widget notes. No, it does not sync with sticky notes. It sort of hangs out there in "Job's Limbo land." Mantra; It is not a computer
8. The iphone will not stand up to a normal daily usage without having to recharge its batteries at least once during the day. At the rate of power usage it consumes, the battery will not last long, in-spite of the Apple's mantra of it lasting longer than anything on the market. It is interesting to note that when the iphone was released, Apple also released a formal statement where they would charge you $75.00 to replace the iphone battery, and rent you an iphone for $29.00. Talk about lack of confidence in your own product. How much of a no brainer would it have been to put a door on the back of your iphone and have the user change their own battery. Mantra; It is not a computer. (Was Job's serious that he has 250 patents on this device.)
Job's needs to get some serious fixes out to the market place soon, otherwise the Asian market will eat him up when they bring out their "reversed engineered" versions of the iphone at Christmas time.
When I questioned the Apple rep on the mantra of "it is not a computer" I told him to go back and review Steve Job's "dog and pony show performance" that he presented at the mac convention, and also review his statement that there would be a delay in the release of the Leopard operating system for the laptop and desktop, because the software engineers responsible for that, were working on the release of the iphone system since the iphone was to be a mini version of the Mac OS X system. I also asked about the fact that some of the iphone's operating system's features were only one way, residing mostly in the lap top end. His reply was that they now refer to the operating system of the iphone as the OS X, they removed the word Mac, before Mac OS X, so that consumers would not be confused. Talk about a snow job. ( or maybe instead of calling it a snow job, one would be correct in calling it a "Steve Job."
My take on this, is that the phone was not ready for prime time, and that it should have been released about a year later. However, when you can add close to a half million dollars to your profit margin within a week, greed always wins out. Thus, we have become beta testers for Apple's iphone, and here I thought that this only occurred with Microsoft in the release of its operating systems.
When you hype your product as much as Job's has, one would expect forward stepping to what one is already accustom to, not several steps backward. Besides the lack of a "cut & paste" feature, I have noticed that I do not have the same coverage with my same Cingular account that I previously had with my Treo 650 using Cingular. The antenna on the iphone is weak, and it drops calls more frequently than I ever encountered with my Treo 650, using the same carrier.
That is why I made the opening statement that the iphone is more fiction than reality!!!! If you trying to decide on whether the iphone is for you, WAIT until Apple gets it right. Who knows maybe Job's will wake up to the bad press that is soon to follow this device, or maybe his Asian competitors' will release their product with a "step forward" type of technology.
1. It does not have the basic "cut and paste" that most PDAs have. The iphone is actually a regression in that respect. (Mantra, This is not a computer)
And what WILL you complain about when this is fixed - and it will be. Have you yourself ever design cut and paste to work on a touch screen? Actually THINK about it and realize it's not as easy as one would think. We will get this soon though, I have no doubts.
Originally Posted by oric
2. It will not do streaming video. Mantra; It is not a computer
It doesn't wash my car either.
Originally Posted by oric
3. The iPod features will not play back through any blue tooth features, nor will it play back through your car stereo using the normal "monster cable" to select an fm station. Mantra; It is not a computer
I'm not sure what you're talking about with the FM station thing, but it plays back through my car stereo just fine. I also expect we'll have bluetooth file transfer in the future, as soon as they can assure the record companies it will be locked down so people can't transfer music files to one another. I BELIEVE that it will, indeed, playback music through a bluetooth headset and I've read people who've done it (I myself haven't tried though).
Originally Posted by oric
4. No arrow keys to maneuver your way on text. All that is offered is a backwards moving delete key, or you can try stabbing the iphone screen in order to reposition the cursor. Mantra; It is not a computer
Arrow keys are unneccessary when you have the magnifying glass feature. Learn to use it.
Originally Posted by oric
5. Blue tooth head set use to work both ways with my Treo 650, with the iphone, it only works with out going calls not incoming. I have the Plantronics 510. Mantra; It is not a computer
Um... my bluetooth works on both incoming and outgoing, though compatibility issue aren't all that surprising on ANY brand spanking new device though.
Originally Posted by oric
6. The iphone is mostly a slave unit of the laptop computer. Most of the syncing is one way with the real work being done at the computer end, not at the iphone end. Example, one can not create a group in the iphone address book (contacts), it has to be done at the computer end. Mantra; It is not a computer
7. There is no sync with the home computer of the iphone widget notes. No, it does not sync with sticky notes. It sort of hangs out there in "Job's Limbo land." Mantra; It is not a computer
This has already been addressed by articles out there. Notes is going to Sync with it's desktop version when the latest OS X is released, and there will be lots of other features incorporated at the same time.
Originally Posted by oric
8. The iphone will not stand up to a normal daily usage without having to recharge its batteries at least once during the day. At the rate of power usage it consumes, the battery will not last long, in-spite of the Apple's mantra of it lasting longer than anything on the market. It is interesting to note that when the iphone was released, Apple also released a formal statement where they would charge you $75.00 to replace the iphone battery, and rent you an iphone for $29.00. Talk about lack of confidence in your own product. How much of a no brainer would it have been to put a door on the back of your iphone and have the user change their own battery. Mantra; It is not a computer. (Was Job's serious that he has 250 patents on this device.)
I'm getting fine battery life. I was IMing/TMing like a banshee today, and browsing the web quite a bit, and there were even some phone calls tossed in there. When I stuck it on the charger at midnight it was still about 30-40% charged. Considering it does more than nearly any phone on the market I wouldn't be so quick to compare it in terms of battery life. It certainly goes much further than my laptop battery does. As for user-replaceable batteries... everyone screamed about that with the iPod too, but it didn't have any impact on the millions willing to buy one.
Originally Posted by oric
Job's needs to get some serious fixes out to the market place soon, otherwise the Asian market will eat him up when they bring out their "reversed engineered" versions of the iphone at Christmas time.
You are kidding, right? The Asain market is a whole different ballgame. Their phones do things like pay tolls & train tickets, get used as a creditcard, and they have the worlds fastest wireless network. You'd be hard pressed to impress any Asain market with a device developed primarily for US consumption. Geez, the car I bought here can come equipped with in-car Kareoke over in Japan.
Originally Posted by oric
When I questioned the Apple rep on the mantra of "it is not a computer" I told him to go back and review Steve Job's "dog and pony show performance" that he presented at the mac convention, and also review his statement that there would be a delay in the release of the Leopard operating system for the laptop and desktop, because the software engineers responsible for that, were working on the release of the iphone system since the iphone was to be a mini version of the Mac OS X system. I also asked about the fact that some of the iphone's operating system's features were only one way, residing mostly in the lap top end. His reply was that they now refer to the operating system of the iphone as the OS X, they removed the word Mac, before Mac OS X, so that consumers would not be confused. Talk about a snow job. ( or maybe instead of calling it a snow job, one would be correct in calling it a "Steve Job."
And Apple owes you an answer why? It's pretty simple, if you don't like it, don't buy it.
Originally Posted by oric
My take on this, is that the phone was not ready for prime time, and that it should have been released about a year later. However, when you can add close to a half million dollars to your profit margin within a week, greed always wins out. Thus, we have become beta testers for Apple's iphone, and here I thought that this only occurred with Microsoft in the release of its operating systems.
I don't at all feel like a beta tester. I'm a tech geek and I LOVE my iPhone. I'm using it every day and not just as a toy, and it feels "ready" to me. Honestly, I haven't even missed cut & paste yet. I've comfortable done more with this cellphone in two weeks that I did with any previous over years of use. What the iPhone does, it does extremely well, and what it doesn't do... well guess what? It will do soon enough.
Originally Posted by oric
When you hype your product as much as Job's has, one would expect forward stepping to what one is already accustom to, not several steps backward. Besides the lack of a "cut & paste" feature, I have noticed that I do not have the same coverage with my same Cingular account that I previously had with my Treo 650 using Cingular. The antenna on the iphone is weak, and it drops calls more frequently than I ever encountered with my Treo 650, using the same carrier.
Haven't notice this at all. I'd swear I'm getting BETTER reception than I did with my razr.
Originally Posted by oric
That is why I made the opening statement that the iphone is more fiction than reality!!!! If you trying to decide on whether the iphone is for you, WAIT until Apple gets it right. Who knows maybe Job's will wake up to the bad press that is soon to follow this device, or maybe his Asian competitors' will release their product with a "step forward" type of technology.
I cannot tell you how happy I am I didn't wait. Bad press soon to follow? I guess you didn't read the USA Today article that said 90% of polled iPhone owners were "extremely" or "very" happy with their purchase... or the one (from another paper that escapes me right now) that said 1 in 3 people WANT one.
I suppose you believe the Zune will overtake the market in portable music player sales too?
While some of what the iPhone is missing may bug you, you miss the whole point that it does a lot of things so much better than any other cellphone. I can impress of room full of IT guys merely by showing them Safari... and that doesn't go into any of the other features. Will there be some additions along the way? Absolutely. But that hardly makes it the instable mess that Vista was on release... or the user-unfriendly nightmare of nearly every other phone on the market.
Oric, I love my iPhone. It's the greatest phone I have ever owned. There is no phone out there that can compete with the beautiful display, quickness of applications opening up and safari on a 3 inch screen. I love it!!!!
And what WILL you complain about when this is fixed - and it will be.
Says who? Apple hasn't released any official statement detailing what will and will not be fixed. Opinions are different than facts, learn the difference between the two.
07-13-2007, 01:43 PM
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