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The Official I hate the iPhone thread

While I think the recent releases are lower on the quality scale than usual, I think the OP is shortsighted. Anyone who has used the iPhone for at least a full day will tell you that they are the future of computing. I use my PB about 90% less now because the iPhone is just so much more accessible.
 
^ i cant wait till iPhone catches up to today's standards in desktops and notebooks…

  • >1 GB RAM
  • >250 GB flash hard drive
  • multi-cored >2 GHz CPU
  • graphics card with 512 MB of video RAM and 100 steam processes
all fitting into the iPhone with huge battery life and a 100 Mbit mobile network! :eek:
 
Aloha everyone,

I really don't understand this 'I hate the iPhone' sentiment. Don't these whiners realize that some of the technology used in the iPhone is being rolled into Mac OS X 10.6 and later? After all, the iPhone is a small computer, and lessons learned there are golden to Apple. For example, everyone has read about the extremely small app sizes in Snow Leopard, right? That technology, at least to my understanding, had its roots in the iPhone OS. There are lots of things that can be transferred from one platform to the other. Who's to say where Apple would be without the iPhone? I think we should leave the worrying about Apple's products to, uhmmm, Apple. They have a plan with respect to their product line.

Oh, and I echo the earlier suggestion to just not buy an iPhone if you don't like it. Personally, I love my iPhone, even with the current issues I'm experiencing (having to restore every few days because the iPod content has been deleted and all non-Apple apps continuously crash).

:apple:HawaiiMacAddict
 
I'll second whoever said iPhones have stimulated sales of Mac computers. I'd never even considered owning a Mac before getting my iPhone. Not even a month after getting it I went back to the same Apple store and got my shiny new iMac.
 
richthomas said:
^ i cant wait till iPhone catches up to today's standards in desktops and notebooks…

  • >1 GB RAM
  • >250 GB flash hard drive
  • multi-cored >2 GHz CPU
  • graphics card with 512 MB of video RAM and 100 steam processes
all fitting into the iPhone with huge battery life and a 100 Mbit mobile network! :eek:
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That will be awesome! I cannot wait either, but until then my wife and I will continue to love our current 3G iPhones and my kids will enjoy their 1st Gen iPhones. :D
 
kryszrich said:
Simply because I feel Apple's other products would be of stronger quality if the iPhone wasn't such a successfully hyped product. Too much attention is taken away from their computers.

And what's up with Apple prices. They now have a bigger market cap than google, by taking advantage of those who need their products due to the field they are in. Bring down prices of your computers!!!
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What field besides apple fanboy requires an apple computer?
 
kryszrich said:
Simply because I feel Apple's other products would be of stronger quality if the iPhone wasn't such a successfully hyped product. Too much attention is taken away from their computers.

And what's up with Apple prices. They now have a bigger market cap than google, by taking advantage of those who need their products due to the field they are in. Bring down prices of your computers!!!
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id like to see you put all the things there are in apple computers into a PC and have it priced the same

they don't overcharge at all
 
Hmmm well I mean I have an iPhone and I personally love it! I am In the usmc and I get service virtually everywhere and the EDGE is awesome! I mean I think you could almost say the iPhone was what the iPod was when it first came out

-GHST
 
Apple is a huge corporation, it's not a mom and pop shop being ran out of a garage. I'm sure they have the ability to work on multiple projects and platforms simultaniously. I'm sure for the most part the computer and the iPhone divisions share very few resources.

Besides for the most part the iPhones are being taken care of by the unicorns. :D
 
What is it with people posting in this thread beginning "I love my iPhone because..."?!?! Start another thread!

Now let's allow the hatred to flow...
 
I hate...
  • the ridiculous backup times
  • the plastic back
  • the way the 3G doesn't sit flat on a desk and allow me to type without it wobbling all over the place
  • the way it gets so hot when using some applications
  • the incredibly slow GPS start-up times
  • the many app crashes
  • the way the music skips if I try to do too many things "ooooh, you've had the audacity to open four Safari windows, well you can't listen to your music then!"
  • the awful 3G reception, despite the aforementioned plastic back which was supposed to assist in this respect
  • the way calls often just drop mid-conversation
  • the way it locks up for no imaginable reason sometimes
  • the fact that you can't be sure that your app data will be preserved when you update an app
  • the way home screen icons get rearranged whenever you update an app
  • the overly long period of time it takes Apple to authorise new sub-version releases of applications in the App Store - dagnammit, I want the sync features of Things v1.1, like yesterday!!

Other than that, I love it ;)
 
kryszrich said:
Simply because I feel Apple's other products would be of stronger quality if the iPhone wasn't such a successfully hyped product.
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How new around here are you?

Apple's put out some Macs with seeeerrrrrious quality issues starting way, way, way before the word iPhone was ever posted on these forums.

Your 17" MBP with the bum screen was pre-iPhone, wasn't it?

I know my 15" PowerBook with the hi-res issue, first gen MacBook Pro with the CPU whine, LCD buzz and heat issues, and my first gen MacBook with the Random Shutdown Symptom (RSS) issues were all before the iPhone (and were all problems many, many other Mac users had too).
 
akonradi said:
Someone stating that the iPhone has screwed up Apple's long-time focus on computers makes them a troll? Someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning (as I guess you do every morning). Or maybe it's just the fact that you like to brand lots of people as trolls for no real reason. Anyhoo, it's pretty hard to deny that the mac line has taken a huge hit with all of the iPhone attention. I don't hate the iPhone by any means, but I do hate their recent shift of priorities.
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I really doubt that the Mac engineers were diverted to spend all their time on the iPhone instead. Cellular technology is a totally different beast. The iPhone isn't gonna make a damn difference in Mac development.
 
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