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Originally Posted by doctorow
From JQ: Top 10 Reasons Not to Line Up for an iPhone...
10. It can’t make video calls, AT&T’s latest cool offering.
9. It won’t connect with corporate e-mail networks. (So you’ll still have to carry your Blackberry.)
8. It doesn’t have enough storage space. (8 GB maximum for music, videos, photos? We don’t think that’ll do it, and there’s no memory slot for expansion).
7. Slow-speed cellular data connection means it won’t pull up Web pages like it does in the deceptive Apple TV ads.
6. Don’t you remember the Newton?
5. First year total cost of ownership: $1,500 (phone plus AT&T contract).
4. Geez, it’s not as if it's the last Star Wars movie or anything.
3. Sticky fingers and greasy faces and something called sunlight, which makes dialing outside on a nice day, er, shall we say challenging? (Okay, so I snuck three reasons into one item.)
2. A glass screen? Have you ever dealt with Apple’s warranty police?
1. Never, ever buy version 1.0 of anything. |
10. Very few people ever make video calls. In the UK, we've had video phones for years now, and I have never seen anyone make such a call.
9. Apparently coming soon; still, it has IMAP, etc.
8. Enough storage space compared to what? Other phones? Or iPods? There are no other phones currently released that have larger capacities, and the bestselling iPod is the 4GB nano, which should tell you something.
7. That does suck, yes.
6. We'd better not buy any handhelds from Apple ever again then, because they'll all be like the Newton!
5. Bottom line, this is not much more than comparable plans for the Blackberry:
http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/26/h...in-total-cost/
4. Sigh...
3. Apparently the screen is very visible in sunlight, even with fingerprints.
2.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=czCCavcnNd8 - enough said. It can survive repeated 6ft drops onto concrete, and cannot be scratched - even deliberately - by a bag of keys.
1. Fair enough, version 2.0 will obviously be better. But you're saying this on a ebook forum where most of the products are 1.0?
The point is, there are problems with the iPhone. There are a lot of good reasons why you shouldn't get one - namely, price, connectivity and custom apps. But to suggest that the screen is not strong, or it costs a vast amount more than any other phone out there, or that people actually care about video calls, is simply flat-out wrong.