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Why does apple limit the iphone.
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The same reason Microsoft tried so hard to make Vista suck, so they could get people to pay for both Vista and Windows 7...
oh wait, you mean they weren't trying?
Considering Vista works so much better now than release, your outdated argument is laughable.
What other phones are they gonna' make?
Look at it this way:
If they make another phone, it would give a CHOICE to customers. Sometimes when customers are given a choice, they can't choose and they'll turn to a phone like the Env2 (which I'm guessing that half of the human population has at this point).
So if there is no choice, there's this: It's Mac! It has to be good.
There's no hesitation..They have to buy THAT phone, or no Mac phone. And who doesn't want a Mac phone?
Compared to Win7 and XP Vista is still a crappy O/S and very much so of a resource HOG.
It is much better for driver support than the initial release but it still is not good.
Vista is a great OS and i have no problems using itThe same reason Microsoft tried so hard to make Vista suck, so they could get people to pay for both Vista and Windows 7...
oh wait, you mean they weren't trying?
i have no problems using Vista at all.
all you mac fanboys i tell ya.... quit bashing a system that isnt as bad as people make it out to be.
why bother, just enjoy it.
I find vista extremely boring (no reloads in 21 months), my network uptime is better than when I had XP pro loaded on all my machines.
Based on what you read here its a wonder vista computers even starts up.
Using Vista is laughable.
Vista is fine. Due to the Mac commercials, you'd think it was a joke to use, but it really isn't as bad as it's made out to be. I'd imagine that many of the critics have never even used Vista.
To the OP: Are you serious? Of course they don't give us everything they could. They're a business!
comparisons are made with XP and 7
Mac OS has nothing to do with this, I like Vista more than I could ever appreciate XP, but I've read and heard a lot of critics from who uses PCs and not Macs.
A Mac fanboy would usually say PCs suck, or Windows/Microsoft sucks... not specifically Vista, IMO
Either way, what limits is the OP referring to?
Bluetooth, HD (as in recording and playing), CPU clock etc or merely iPhone 3g vs 3gs functions?
From a business point of view it usually makes sense as it also does for Mercedes to limit their cars
People who complain about vista haven't upgraded from a P4 yet.
I have been running vista for 2 years with no issues and I find it more stable than xp any day. Maybe it's just n00bs who can't figure out how to manage an OS right.
I have been running vista for 2 years with no issues and I find it more stable than xp any day. Maybe it's just n00bs who can't figure out how to manage an OS right.
The iPhone has to be constrained as a matter of public safety. If all that fury were to be released at once then people would get hurt.
It's for our own good. The Steve knows best.
It's for our own good. The Steve knows best.
Dude, I am far from a MAC fanboy as this is my first Mac I have owned after 25 years of owning PC / Windows based machines. I only got it 2 weeks ago.
I also am the IT Director for a school and will again tell you Vista is not that good. I had a dual boot system on my work pc with Win 7 RC. When that just expired, I had to go back to my Vista business and the speed and response time I lost is amazing between the two operating systems. Now I have so much lag with programs that it's pissing me off.
Technical people that know the O/S inside and out are the ones bashing it. The ones that just use a O/S for simple email, web browsing like yourself do not know any better and think Vista is fine. Try it in a business world. Most Businesses won't use VISTA because of these reasons and still use XP. Reason why XP is still available!!!!
Microsoft produce some great operating systems (e.g. Windows 2003, Windows 2007 and Windows 7) but IMO Vista isn't one of them: The UAC is simply annoying and the network performance, whilst improved from the debacle of the initial release, is still poor. Furthermore, at an enterprise level it doesn't offer enough of a compelling reason to upgrade from XP, which is why sales in that sector have suffered. For the record, I have been working with Microsoft operating systems since MS-DOS 2.0 so I'm far from a "n00b" and Vista, IMO is comparable to the train wreck that was Windows ME.
Anyway, to answer the OPs question, they do it so that they can persuade people to upgrade every year - drip feeding features is, unfortunately, one of Apple's less appealing sides
You can very easily, but they also could have made it more like Win7 and less intrusive. Sadly, Vista has a lot more issues with it than just UAC. Reason why Microsoft had to rewrite the whole code for the O/S to make it run faster under a different Kernel.
That doesn't make it any less of an annoying feature - it just makes it a disabled annoying feature! The fact remains that UAC was ill-conceived and badly executed which is fairly typical of large parts of Vista. What about the other points I raised in my post?
Well that could be good marketing of the "Vista Sux"...or resistance to change (which is a big impediment generally)...
...seriously though...Vista blows dead bears on a northbound road...7 seems to be a promising service pack...
Cheers.
-J.-
It's not just with the iPhone, it's with all cellphone manufacturers. They have to keep you wanting the next one and the next one and the only way to do that is to hold off. This is why most cellphones only have 2-3MP cameras and other things.
