iPhony

I love Apple products as much as the next guy, but the iPhone is lame. It’s lacking basic features that are available in every other cell phone on the market, it’s ridiculously expensive, and you’re tied into a contract with AT&T, an awful company. I’ll admit that the UI is really cool, but it’s hardly the revolutionary leap forward for the mobile phone industry that people are making it out to be. If Apple really wanted to be forward-thinking with the iPhone, they should have just sold the iPhone as-is and let anyone, anywhere stick a SIM card in it.


posted by greg on July 12, 2007 @ 4:53 pm

8 comments »

  1. The Neo1973 ( http://www.openmoko.com/ ) should be a nice, open alternative. Not ready yet, though, unless you’re a fairly hardcore techie. But spread the word.

    Comment by anon — July 13, 2007 @ 12:57 am

  2. Apple/AT&T’s craftiness with the IPhone has really bothered me. Within the past year, it has become legal (as it always should have been) to unlock your cell phone so that you may use your cell phone with whatever carrier you choose. To keep people locked into AT&T with their IPhones, Apple manufactured the IPhone using a nonstandard, AT&T-specific SIM card design.

    Of course, for those who own an IPod, then the IPhone really should just seem more of the same: Graceful UI, lacks a lot of features that are standard in other MP3 players, and locked into a specific service for content.

    Comment by E-Rock — July 13, 2007 @ 4:19 am

  3. I’ve come to the realization that this blog is the electronic equivalent of an old, tired man complaining at everything any anything. What’s the point of reading this? I can’t remember the last time you said anything positive (or more importantly, insightful). I’m taking you off my RSS feed list. Sorry.

    Comment by David — July 13, 2007 @ 8:06 am

  4. I’m with David. Waaaaaaaaaah. Have you even picked up the iPhone and used it? You would change your mind in a heartbeat. The positives far outweigh the petty problems you’re stating above. And take a look at this to understand why Apple made the decision to go with AT&T. http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jul2007/tc20070711_336357.htm?campaign_id=yhoo

    Comment by yo momma — July 13, 2007 @ 8:39 am

  5. I’ve come to the realization that this blog is the electronic equivalent of an old, tired man complaining at everything any anything.

    Most people figure that out within the first week or two. Thanks for reading.

    Have you even picked up the iPhone and used it? You would change your mind in a heartbeat.

    I have and it didn’t. It’s a cool phone, but a lot of the things that make it “revolutionary” are already in other phones. I’ve been touchscreen dialing, web surfing via Wi-Fi, and watching videos on my T-Mobile MDA for a year. That phone cost a fraction of what the iPhone does and didn’t require a two year contract or a data plan.

    Apple came out with a really cool phone that’s only available through a single vendor. Aside from the cool design and intuitive UI, how is this much different than what Nokia, Motorola, Helio, or Samsung have been doing?

    Comment by greg — July 13, 2007 @ 10:11 am

  6. Hey! Yo mamma!
    That doesn’t explain why they didn’t allow all vendors to supply simms for the iPhone, just why they chose lock-in for that particular vendor.

    Comment by anon — July 17, 2007 @ 5:15 am

  7. I agree. It looks and feels great as all Apple products do. Also, like all Apple products, as soon as you rush out a buy the expexnsive first-generation, the second, cheaper wave hits.

    Comment by Mr Furious — July 18, 2007 @ 7:47 am

  8. Here’s someone even more anti-iPhone!

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

    As for me, I don’t even have an iPod yet.

    Comment by dAnimal — July 18, 2007 @ 2:35 pm

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