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Oh, look at my post title, I’m ever so witty.
So, I’m probably the only nerd with a habit of disliking anything popular and craze-esque who hasn’t yet ranted about the iPhone. Seeing how last Friday, the iPhone 3G was released, I figured it was entirely appropriate to finally vent my feelings concerning this technological wonder.
Trash. Pure trash. Whilst the potential for Apple fan boys and girls is huge (in terms of monetizing them), Apple still seem to have a rather pretentious following. Admittedly, this is a slight deviation but I’d be curious to know how many male Apple users (with respect to personal computers) also have curly hair and drink Magners whilst watching a foreign film (So as not to alienate anyone reading this, you must tick all 3 of the aforementioned criteria for me to greatly dislike you).
Given Apple’s cult success (and glaringly blatant shortcomings), it was only natural that they’re release another cash cow device for the masses to drool over.
Shock. I was actually reasonably impressed by the iPhone after a colleague in one of my many previous jobs showed it to me. It does look sleek, it does look nifty and it has a nice screen. Then again, my Samsung mobile phone looks sleek nifty and has a really nice screen and has a retail value of considerably less than the iPhone.
That aside, I had no real issues with the iPhone. Yes, it was locked to networks, yes it had software glitches; neither of these two points came as a real surprise to me given Apple’s track record for ‘keeping things in the family’ยน especially when their iPod was considered. However, the realisation that the iPhone only worked on a 2G network was somewhat of a shocker. Here I am waltzing around with my Samsung something-or-other (I genuinely cannot remember the model) with not only 3G network capabilities but HSDPA (as close as we’ll get to mobile download speeds) and a 3.0 megapixel camera. The original iPhone did not even come close to this.
I think it’s a disgrace that the iPhone didn’t launch originally with all the bells and whistles. They’ve brought out the 3G version now and if I had bought the original iPhone I’d feel somewhat betrayed that I’d have to fork out another hundred quid or so to get a phone that works with a better speed, a speed that almost all modern devices currently work at for a lot less.
So, despite my normal disliking of Apple, I was willing to give the iPhone a chance (not to extent of buying one though) and not actually hate it. But I had no idea it wasn’t 3G and had no idea it only had a 2.0 Megapixel camera nor did it work at HSDPA download speeds.
So yeah, I feel better now that I’ve ranted about the iPhone but really, it just seems like a big iPhony (I’m sorry, I did love that pun too much) and a usual i-insertWordHere device to appeal to the more upper-class market that Apple seems to target.
What’s wrong with using a good old Nokia or Ericsson?
