It’s down to weighing the level of aggravation, and you won’t know unless you live with the different devices for a while.
Eventually there will be another “killer app” that is just too useful to be ignored, and things will move on or die.
A lot of great hardware never went anywhere, because it couldn’t run the current “killer app”.
]]>But that’s the upside. The downside is that you’re restricted from doing a lot of things that you’d like to do with what’s basically a modern Unix OS in a handheld unless you hack (“jailbreak”) the thing. Which is annoying… but as annoying as running Android? That’s what’s so frustrating here…
– Badtux the Phoney Penguin
]]>You want a tool, not a project.
]]>My takeaway from Apple’s press conference: “There’s nothing wrong with the iPhone 4, but here, have a free case on us just to shut you up.”
I’ve been wavering over what phone to get for some time now. I’m still wavering. Despite its flaws, the iPhone 4 is still a very good product. If it sucked the decision would be easy — don’t support evil, don’t buy it. But it’s really still the standard to beat in the smartphone business…
– Badtux the Wavering Penguin
]]>They do, eventually, fix their products, but you have to wait for them to mature before buying one.
Badtux, et al. are right – essentially they are saying nothing is actually wrong, but here’s a free [I didn’t know that Apple knew that word] product so you will stop your whining.
They didn’t make a friends, but they don’t think they need them because the alternatives require too much thought.
As for the deal with Gates, he seems to have the M$ ability to always screw up a product launch, while figuring out that when you finally reduce the bugs to an acceptable level, you call a new product and make people pay for it.
]]>Steve Jobs denies Judas Phone antenna problems
Just keep in mind that if you think that there’s anything wrong with your iPhone 4, it’s the media’s fault.
In fact, according to Jobs, nothing is Apple’s fault.
Yup. And for the record… I haven’t believed a single thing Jobs has said since he was *reinstated* as BOSS @ Apple after his ‘Next’ failure, and he did the backroom deal with Gates.
]]>Now, they do what they usually do…
Apple looks for an Iphone antenna engineer
They have finally decided after 4 versions of the product to hire someone who actually knows what they are doing. 😆
Apple’s iPhone 4 denial: insulting or ignorant?
Expect problems with the first few iPad’s, just as there were with the iPod’s, MacBook, etc, etc… etc! 😆
Speaking of Dictionaries… I found an old definition I found somewhere years ago that made me laugh all over again! 😀 😆
Win.dows: n. A thirty-two bit extension and graphical shell to a sixteen-bit patch to an eight-bit operating system originally coded for a four-bit microprocessor which were created by two-bit companies that can’t stand one bit of competition.
OT: I haven’t been around much, and won’t be for awhile. Seeing several specialists (med) and doing lot’s of tests, etc. *shrug* Lucky you. 😉 😛
]]>Every application on the iPhone works the same as every other application on the iPhone because they’re all forced through the same restrictive UI library that dictates to them what they’re allowed to do, which gives a unity of user interface experience that you simply don’t get on Linux. So for geeks, Android is a worthy competitor to the iPhone, but for ordinary folks, Android phones are just too friggin’ tedious. Like Macs, iPhones just work. Like Linux, Android just wants YOU to work to customize it to your own desires. For the majority of people, who just want a phone that does a few non-phone things like play iTunes, not a friggin’ supercomputer in their handheld, the iPhone meets their needs far, far better.
So anyhow, I’m still debating what to get. I have three weeks to think about it, at which point everything I might want to buy will be in stock. Wish me luck :).
– Badtux the Phoney Penguin
]]>Customer service? What a quaint 20th century notion, to actually care what customers think about your product.
Once they discovered that people would pay not to wait on hold, customer service went the way of the glaciers and melted away.
If it was a car, it would already be recalled and fixed for free, but technology has escaped that “problem”.
It can only be hoped that someone finally develops a competing product to at least bring the price down.
]]>Now *THAT* is customer service. Sadly, nobody in the technology industry would even think of doing that for a YEAR-old product, nevermind a 4-year-old one…
– Badtux the Service Penguin
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