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When Apple first launched the iPhone in 2007, it was leaps and bounds ahead of its nearest rivals. But now the handset is a triumph of marketing over functionality. And its so ubiquitous its not even cool any more.
Here are ten reasons why, whatever is announced at the forthcoming launch, theres no point buying the iPhone 4G:
1) Its expensive: Buy the top-of-the-range Blackberry or Android handset and you will still pay a lot less than the extortionate prices Apple charge. If the iPhone werent made by Apple, networks would have had to start giving it away on £30 a month tariffs years ago.
false those phones are equal or close on price
2) Its anti-technology: When the iPhone launched it was cutting edge now as other manufacturers announce, for instance, that you can use their phones as shareable wifi hot spots, Apple says no. Not because of some spurious user experience argument, but because of economics. When will they learn that its customers supply and demand that should dictate feature availability?
ask ATT not apple
3) No Flash: The iPhone, the phone that promised to put the web into everybodys pockets, cant even show you most of it, because it cant handle Flash graphics. Google Android can, in the latest version (OS 2.2), and its going to be available free on a lot of budget tariffs.
Have you seen flash running on android? its VERY VERY VERY slow
4) No multitasking: Tried instant messaging on an iPhone? Oh yes, you have to open the app to see if youve got a message. Genius. If Apple announces multitasking next it will be an improvement but therell be no apology for the way its treated customers in the past, and no guarantee it wont behave similarly shoddily in the future.
Multitasking is coming in OS 4.0
5) Its battery life is terrible: This isnt a problem unique to Apple, but look at phones by companies such as HTC multitasking, better cameras, better screens, all draining their batteries far more and yet the iPhone, with its undemanding technology, still only offers equal performance.
im sorry now you are just reaching
6) Developing apps for it is costing you money: The special version of the BBC iPlayer, of Natwest Phone Banking, of Eons meter reader developing all of these came out of money that could have been channelled away from a self-important minority and towards more generally useful ideas.
agree
7) It comes with offensively bad headphones: Sit next to somebody using the original iPhone or iPod headphones and you can hear everything they can. Its another example of Apple charging premium prices, but delivering a dressed up, budget product.
again your reaching, they are not THAT bad
8) Its not very well designed: Use the iPhone as a phone and its not got great reception, nor is it particularly comfortable to use for long periods. Its a computer that happens to have a phone bolted on jack of two trades, but master of neither.
opinion
9) It charges for satnav: In an age when Nokia and Google Android provide completely free mapping and satnav facilities, the cheapest way you can turn your overpriced iPhone into a satnav is with a £19.99 app. Bargain.
agree
10) Those iPod docks are holding back better technologies: As every hotel increasingly thinks it should provide iPod docks, the momentum behind this technology is only growing. But if it wasnt for the iPod and iPhones ubiquity, thered be more wifi radios, more new technologies and a range of different options, competing and driving innovation.
agree
Totally agree with all points (apart form multi tasking cos i jailbroke). hell im a sucker to buy it to be honest, never been keen on the leaked pics of the 4g but dont want a HTC or blackberry thats made of bits and pieces which come apart....
good way to bring excitement to your evening/day i suppose guess we will have to wait and see next week, however im not holding my hopes up and yeh ill probably still buy one.
