I can't agree with that as my anger stems from a lot more than just push notifications that I think were promised to me this month. I really don't care about the push notifications all that much to be honest.
My anger stems more from the attitude of some people on this and other forums and them trying to tell iPhone users that we should basically just "suck it up" or get a new phone.
It is not just about this one issue of push notifications.
You know what?
When I pay $50 for a phone, $100 for a phone or even $200 for a phone (The Curve I had on July 10th for instance), fine, maybe I suck it up.
But when I upgrade early and pay $400 for a phone because of how it is advertised, and then it doesn't come close, then I shouldn't have to just "suck it up" and Apple should not make me "just suck it up."
But if they are going to make me just suck it up, they could at least tell me why.
I don't see where I am being unreasonable at all to be quite frank.
But like I said, I love the concept of this phone and I love what I think this phone could be capable of, so I will continue to take the ride.
Just because something is expensive doesn't mean it's automatically a great product. If you don't like the product, return it. The price is irrelevant. You bought it, evaluated it, and you kept it. End of story. The only entitlement you would ever have is if they changed something that made the phone significantly worse. You could then complain your ass off about how you paid through the teeth for something and were satisfied with your purchase until they changed something that made the product worse, in your opinion. That would be a valid argument. And even then, if you fought hard enough with a decent company, you could probably return it for a refund. But that's not the case. You paid for something, got what you got, WERE NOT PROMISED ANYTHING FURTHER, and you decided to keep the phone as it was. And the only thing they've done to date is improve it. If anything, you've already received more than you paid for. Please show me where they promised you anything else for the phone as incentive to buy it. Show me the ad that says "Buy an iPhone, it will be great on XXX date when we release XXX for it." The only feature we knew was upcoming (but was NOT "promised") was push notification services for "background apps." That's it. If that's the feature you desire so much and feel entitled to have by now, or feel entitled to an explanation further than "September," when we are still in September, then maybe you should have waited to buy the phone until the feature was actually released. Otherwise, I have no idea what you think you were "promised" that you either haven't received, or haven't received in a timely enough fashion.
I know that's not what you want to hear, and trust me when I say that I hate people who spew that crap on this forum, and I never thought I'd be one of them, but you are in the category of "extreme."
I also waited for the firmware to improve to what I would call an acceptable level. For me, that is firmware 2.1. I knew I was taking a risk by keeping the buggy phone and hoping for a firmware to fix it. But, like you, I saw what the capability of the phone COULD be and wanted to keep it to "take the ride." The difference is that I didn't/don't feel entitled to anything like you apparently do.
I don't think you realize that you bought a product from apple, not a service. You did not purchase a "firmware service contract" where you both signed on the dotted line that XXX features would be delivered by XXX date, or that XXX feature would work such and such a way. You bought a phone based on it's claimed capabilities. You had the opportunity to evaluate those claims, which you were apparently not satisfied with, but you chose to "take the ride" anyway. I don't see how you can feel so entitled to anything further from apple just because you paid $XXX for the phone. You might have
expected more, because you made assumptions about how fast apple would do XXX, or what apple would even do at all, but that's your bad for making assumptions, and can't be blamed on apple.
/rant.
. Now if Apple said 2.1, then that's different.
