Just curious, for those that are frustrated with the iPhone and iPT because they don't have enough features, are too limited or intentionally crippled. What exactly would you like them to be able to do?
I'll concentrate on the Touch, as that is the one I am interested in, but I would like apple to at least not actively cripple them more than necessary. I mean, I can (just) live with it not having a teeny, weeny FM-chip, but not try tying people n their hand and feet in order to sell you a tiny bit less crippled product two months later.
How is either product crippled? The first answer I think of is the ability to use third party apps is important. What other features are lacking?
Indeed that is an important one.
Flash is another one. Yes, one could parrot Steve Jobs and say that that had been left out to save on the battery, but really, that should be up to the user to choose.
Then there's the lack of supported security (WPA Enterprise for one).
They can build computers with, say, a danish layout, but there is no real keyboard layout for danish users. Our last three letters, æ, ø, å (yes, they are individual letters, not variations of others) are incorporated in a cumbersome way.
Or how about the fact that you weren't allowed (don't know if they allow that now??) to edit or even add calender appointments?
Or that several of the apps that were actually working on the iPhone, you had to wait for for a long time, and when it finally appeared for the Touch, you had to pay an extra 20 bucks.
Now, what else is crippled on that thing?
Oh, yes, I have been told (I'm only 95 percent sure of this), that you cannot use iSync to sync addresses and whatnot. No, no, you have to use iTunes.
Which brings me to:
Disk Mode!! That one is not allowed apparently because they want your Touch to be locked into iTunes 100 percent. Who cares that many people actually use disk mode. Hell, they even had disk mode on their very first iPod. But this? Nope! You cannot use it with anything else, or for anything that is not 100 percent condoned by apple. And not only that, it has to go through iTunes.
This, to me, is beginning to look very much like what MS did with their IE-crap.
I ask honestly as I'm thinking of getting an iPT down the road when the 64GB comes out. I now have a 3rd gen iPod and compared to that, the iPT looks loaded with features. I know one feature I will miss (unless Apple fixes it) is disk mode. My 3rd gen iPod has this, but the iPT doesn't. That is a step backward and hardly innovative. That's the only crippling thing I see though so I feel I'm missing something since so many seem to say the iPhone and iPT are still lacking features.
I'm 100 percent with you. That "feature" I consider the most crippling.
With regards to the iPhone there are many things, but somewhere in these threads someone mentioned that it cannot do MMS, it cannot forward SMS's, but there are numerous other things *most of which I cannot remember right now.
The funny thing is, when it comes to Denmark officially, it will most certainly be priced just a tad under the Bang-Olufsen Serenata, which, although it has an embarrasing amount of storage (4GB) is 3G and a very, very nice phone, with the features that is needed for a modern phone. Compare the specs of the iPhone to the Serenata.
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