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AGAG09 
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Posted 25 June 2009 - 08:27 AM
You should also mention the numerous problems iPhone 3G users http://mostly on 2.x software have with upgrading to 3.0. Check the Apple > iPhone 3G forums for details. It appears that Apple didn't test or didn't care too much about this segment of users. That might come back to haunt them later.
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Posted 25 June 2009 - 08:46 AM
Who cares about the iPhone.
The Google Android-based phones are starting to look so sweet :-) Oh, and they don't impose any restrictions to keep you in the Apple iron-grip, like prohibiting you from running Adobe Flash apps. Shame on Apple.
The Google Android-based phones are starting to look so sweet :-) Oh, and they don't impose any restrictions to keep you in the Apple iron-grip, like prohibiting you from running Adobe Flash apps. Shame on Apple.
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Posted 25 June 2009 - 09:41 AM
Shhhhhh you're ruining the drama for the trendy iphone users!
They just got video recording with SOUND! Its brand new and innovative to them... even if everyone else has had this for 3 years or longer on other smart phones!
Sorry <-- Palm Pre convert! It just works! And Android to be released soon, as well as TG01's snapdragon chips.
They just got video recording with SOUND! Its brand new and innovative to them... even if everyone else has had this for 3 years or longer on other smart phones!
Sorry <-- Palm Pre convert! It just works! And Android to be released soon, as well as TG01's snapdragon chips.
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Posted 25 June 2009 - 10:20 AM
As an Iphone 3g owner who just got Pwned hardcore and not willing to shill out the cost of the new 3gs, Other phones, and other wireless providers (hear that AT&T?) are beginning to look better, guess ill just turn it into an ipod and get on with my life as soon as my cotract is up.
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Posted 25 June 2009 - 10:39 AM
I like the way you criticize the iPhone for just now getting video recording in the same post that you claim to be a Palm Pre convert, which doesn't do video recording.
And sigh, nobody said that the iPhone was innovative in bringing video recording to a cell phone. That's not the point, nor where the excitement was. The iPhone is still missing many cool features that other phones have (flash, Flash, forward facing camera, etc...), but when the iPhone came out, instead of spec matching at the top, the iPhone took a basic set of media-phone funtionality and creating a very compelling user-experience around it in a phone. Steadily, the iPhone is growing. It's maintaining the first-class user experience in the features it does have, while maturing in specs to catch up to to the others who load with features that are awkward, difficult and not fun to use.
Of all the other phones, the Palm Pre comes closest to taking this same approach. They're just much further behind, lack the infrastructure (of things like iTunes, movies, podcasts, tv shows, and bazillions of apps), and cut some corners (like going cheapo with the easily scratchable plastic display). Still, the Palm Pre is a product guided by the same approach, which is why people are excited about it more so than others like the Blackberry Storm.
And sigh, nobody said that the iPhone was innovative in bringing video recording to a cell phone. That's not the point, nor where the excitement was. The iPhone is still missing many cool features that other phones have (flash, Flash, forward facing camera, etc...), but when the iPhone came out, instead of spec matching at the top, the iPhone took a basic set of media-phone funtionality and creating a very compelling user-experience around it in a phone. Steadily, the iPhone is growing. It's maintaining the first-class user experience in the features it does have, while maturing in specs to catch up to to the others who load with features that are awkward, difficult and not fun to use.
Of all the other phones, the Palm Pre comes closest to taking this same approach. They're just much further behind, lack the infrastructure (of things like iTunes, movies, podcasts, tv shows, and bazillions of apps), and cut some corners (like going cheapo with the easily scratchable plastic display). Still, the Palm Pre is a product guided by the same approach, which is why people are excited about it more so than others like the Blackberry Storm.
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Posted 25 June 2009 - 11:26 AM
It sounds like you haven't got your grips around the fact that the iPhone has broken out of the small computer-enthusiast community, and has become a mass-market commodity.
Think of it this way...how often do you check for updates on your TV? Sure, there is a small fraction of users who follow computer news, and who are likely to download an app like Convertbot, and they were looking for the update at 12:01 am the morning it was due. But if your phone is working fine, why check for updates? Eventually, iTunes will check automatically. But even if it mentions that there is an update, an update can take some time. What's the hurry? Why be on the bleeding edge of an x.0 update? Let somebody else find the problems. Update in a few weeks, once the bugs have had the time to surface, and Apple has had time to release 3.01 if an immediate update is needed.
Think of it this way...how often do you check for updates on your TV? Sure, there is a small fraction of users who follow computer news, and who are likely to download an app like Convertbot, and they were looking for the update at 12:01 am the morning it was due. But if your phone is working fine, why check for updates? Eventually, iTunes will check automatically. But even if it mentions that there is an update, an update can take some time. What's the hurry? Why be on the bleeding edge of an x.0 update? Let somebody else find the problems. Update in a few weeks, once the bugs have had the time to surface, and Apple has had time to release 3.01 if an immediate update is needed.
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