Understand and agree with you totally on first paragraph and for most of the second. Where I differ yet agree is that some sites do need currently need the flash to be effective in their intent but that it is changeable to still be effective with other forms of "player" code. I dont think apple is behind the times, I think they are currently developing and setting the future standard. They are taking a risk by jumping ahead to the future and becoming the standard.
Since when is regression "jumping ahead"?
They have no 3G. They claim it's because of it using too much juice – but the only thing that tells me, is that they – unlike other cell phone manufacturers - haven't been able to design a cell phone that can accomodate a bigger battery. But no, you're arguing that they're "jumping ahead" and that it's just because people are "afraid of new technology". Well, I'm sorry, but going back to what a "smart phone" could do five years or more ago isn't "being afraid".
Further, speaking of regression: The iPhone is incapable of sending and receiving MMS's, it's incapable of forwarding a SMS, incapable of sending an sms to multiple recipients, incapable of reading a anything not send to it by mail (woopy – you cannot transfer a picture, pdf or anything, no, you have to mail it to yourself), you cannot read a -doc-document, you certainly cannot edit them and on and on.
Ah, but yes, "it's just because we fear this "new high tech device"
My point/example...Look at how many web sites are currently already adapting to the iPhone. They have their own design, build and use made for this brand new product. How many web sites have been developed for any other type of cell phone??? And yes, I can see it the complainers already...its lite, its not the real internet, blah blah blah. You are using it right? Those sites that are flash based and are loosing hits (iphone is currently the #4 internet platform in the world) because such a large base is going to iPhone friendly sites will eventually change and conform if they do not want to loose their average base.
If a tool doesn't work in the real world as the world looks right now, it's not a tool, but a toy. It's useless the day you need one of the features not in the iPhone. No matter what, you have to use another device to work around the shortcomings, otherwise you're just stuck. And if you actually had some foresight and brought the capable device with you, why not just leave the iPhone at home?.
Its called improvise, adapt and overcome.
No, the cell phone life of an iPhone user is "making do" and coming up with workarounds and excuses. Why do you even try arguing that people should buy a product less capable than what they already have? Hell, most non-3G phones can do more work than that thing.
Technology is constantly changing on a daily basis, this has already been identified and proven that their are major web masters out there already conforming to one single product. Flash, MMS, and the like are old news, they are a comfort zone for those unwilling to adapt and change and this includes those cell makers that have not changed for years and years (Treo, Blackberry, etc.) by still utilizing and making the user conform...Apple has broken this mold and there will be those that fight the change (i.e. the complainers)but eventually they will change and conform to the new method of this or a similiar communication device.
I'm sorry, but the blackberrys are much more of a practical tool than the iPhone. But, you do know, that there are very capable 3G phones out there, and that phones around here (EU) aren't crippled as the US-carriers do to the phones they sell you guys?
What's ironic, is that you're saying that blackberry and so on have tried making people conform, yet your entire argument is "The iPhone is not lacking in features – The rest of the world just have to conform to the limited feature set of the iPhone".
Ah, well, the rest is just more of the same.
