The iphone is more fiction than reality

[three_green]

Oric has some valid points, and I have discovered several more! I used to like my iPhone, but I discovered these terrible shortcomings:

1. When I tried to bake cookies in it, they came out all doughey - not soft on the inside and crunchy on the outside like I like them.
2. When I connect it to my car, my car doesn't get better fuel economy. WTF!?!?
3. It's very difficult to play ping pong on it. I mean, My God! The ball is almost as big as the screen!!!
4. It makes a HORRIBLE water ski - especially when trying to slalom.
5. Despite being touted as the Jesus phone, I still can't walk on water (which makes #4 even that much worse).

And this is just a few!!! The list of things the iPhone won't do is staggering! Why would anyone buy this POS!?!

[rittchard]

While normally I would just say to this thread "don't feed the troll" I can't help but make a few comments.

The "reality" is that the iPhone does everything exactly as Apple stated it would. Sure there are a few bugs, a few things missing or that could be done better but anyone who did any research knew that ahead of time. They did not exaggerate the reality that it's the only phone that can do iTunes properly, and the best portable internet device out there. No matter how you slice it, navigating web pages with a stylus or thumb pad sucks. Better still, it performs its other functions (weather, stocks, email, maps) more efficiently than other comparable devices. I never thought I was buying a computer so I'm not sure what his whole "mantra" business was about.

Other companies can (and will) try to clone it or parts of it and sell their clones cheaper. But that strategy didn't work against the iPod and it won't work against the iPhone either. All Apple needs to do is release updates, upgrades and price drops at opportune times.

[brianhyp]

Originally Posted by three_green

Oric has some valid points, and I have discovered several more! I used to like my iPhone, but I discovered these terrible shortcomings:

1. When I tried to bake cookies in it, they came out all doughey - not soft on the inside and crunchy on the outside like I like them.
2. When I connect it to my car, my car doesn't get better fuel economy. WTF!?!?
3. It's very difficult to play ping pong on it. I mean, My God! The ball is almost as big as the screen!!!
4. It makes a HORRIBLE water ski - especially when trying to slalom.
5. Despite being touted as the Jesus phone, I still can't walk on water (which makes #4 even that much worse).

And this is just a few!!! The list of things the iPhone won't do is staggering! Why would anyone buy this POS!?!

i understand ive had similar problems with my iphone.
ive added to your list but i hope these things get fixed in the next update.

[Maaz]

the battery thing is the only thing that pissed me off, they better lower the price or iam gonna be fkin pissed.

[minivini]

Guys - you're just egging this crap on. Notice how this "oric" identity popped up, slammed a device in a forum devoted to that particular device, then disappeared? "identity" is undoubtedly checking in occasionally to see just how much he's pissed off everyone. Leave it alone, and people like this have no recourse but to act less sociopathically. Let's practice some social Darwinism here...

[jptolife]

This just shows how much people can't live without the iPhone. Eve if they "dislike it"(not sure about that) they just can't go on with their lives without mentioning it.. Just let this thread die, that's what it deserves.

[scottdirector]

[QUOTE=oric;46477]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. (Mantra, This is not a computer)

2. Mantra; It is not a computer

3. Mantra; It is not a computer

4. Mantra; It is not a computer

5. Mantra; It is not a computer

6. Mantra; It is not a computer

7. Mantra; It is not a computer

8. Mantra; It is not a computer.


Quit using the word mantra.

No one uses that word.

[Lincoln]

Originally Posted by oric

By Christmas, the market will be flooded with iphone look alikes, and they will not come with the same deifcits as the original.

Yes, I am pulling another JiggyMatt!

Read this statement. Then read these questions.

1) It's now '08 and there are how many iPhone killers? Several.
2) Are there any iPhone look-alikes? Nope.
3) Do any of the iPhone killers actually kill the iPhone? Hardly.
4) Was oric a hater? You bet.

- John

[KeKe]

He had some points but If he thinks it lacks that much then he shouldve never bought it. I love my iphone it does everything I need it to do.

[Tinman]

Interestingly enough, this thread contains at least one of the "it's coming!" statements that were so popular here last summer:

Originally Posted by DRabbit

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.

It's 2008. It's safe to say that the "we will get this soon" was nonsense, presented as fact.



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Mike