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Originally Posted by pwalker8
If it really, really bothers you and you want an iPhone, you can always jailbreak your iphone/iTouch/iPad and download some of the apps for jailbroken iPhones. That way you get the best of both world. For the most part, Apple has ignored the jailbreak community.
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Jailbreaking voids warranty on a very expensive product. Voiding warranty to get functionality and freedom that all other platforms already have is not an ideal situation for a consumer.
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Once again, compare the iPhone development community verse the Android development community. Consumers have voted with their pocket book and have overwhelmingly gone the iPhone route. If you don't want to go that route, it's fine. A robust marketplace gives people all sorts of choices. But insisting that true consumer choice is only possible if everyone makes the same choice as you is rather egocentric.
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You are mistaken. The iPhone was released a good 18 months before the first Android phones were available. The iPhone was the first phone of its type to be accessible by non-techy consumers, and so the iPhone has had a huge head start in terms of sales and number of applications available.
The Android platform has actually caught up with the iPhone in terms of sales now, and it is apparent that Android still has a lot of growth in it, whereas the iPhone has already started to decline (e.g. the geeks have now abandoned the iPhone for the more open platforms, and once Windows Mobile 7 comes out Windows will probably regain a few % of the market and overtake the iPhone).
Unless Apple open up their platform (not likely), the iPhone will have a sharp decline (and, quite frankly, if you look at the figures the iPhone is nowhere near as popular as you would think from all the attention and press it gets).