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Reasons not to buy Apple's new iPhone 4G

3 points by bensummers 16y ago

soyelmango 16y ago
I have a Windows Mobile phone, and after that painful experience, I'll most likely get an iPhone 4g, though I'd consider an Android too... 1) It’s expensive: Agree 2) It’s anti-technology: no surprise there from Apple. 3) No Flash: Putting a proprietary feature onto a proprietary platform - two wrongs don't make a right. Elsewhere, I read that Flash on Android is slow and a battery hog. It feels that this is less about wanting Flash on the iPhone, and more about a backlash against the iPhone's closed platform per se. 4) No multitasking: Tried multitasking on a Windows Mobile? The phone reduces to a crawl. I looked around Android Apps and noticed quite a few memory and task management utilities - I want to use my phone, and not think about killing apps hogging CPU/RAM in the background. 5) Its battery life is terrible: Possibly because people play with their iPhones throughout the day. Possibly because power consumption is tweaked for performance rather than economy. Possibly because users are accustomed eye-candy interfaces that impose much overhead. 6) Developing apps for it is costing you money: At least when I use that app, it has a high probability of working. My WinMob has these browsers: Opera, Opera 10, Skyfire, IE, Opera Mini, Opera Mini 10, Bolt. Why do I have so many? Because none of them are much good at rendering reliably. I'm by no means a fanboy - much the opposite, I'm quite an Apple Disliker - but I want Things That Work! 7) It comes with offensively bad headphones: Most likely true 8) It’s not very well designed: "It’s a computer that happens to have a phone bolted on" - as are most smartphones now. 9) It charges for satnav: I didn't know this. But I thought Google Maps had turn by turn satnav? 10) Those iPod docks are holding back better technologies: Completely agree. Get rid of that silly connector and use the micro USB connector!
soyelmango 16y ago
I should also ask... Ben, did you post this link because you agree or disagree with the article? What phone do you have and what will you get next?
tomwans 16y ago
This article is nothing short of hilarious. Bad headphones? Dealbreaker.

3 points by bensummers 16y ago

I have a Windows Mobile phone, and after that painful experience, I'll most likely get an iPhone 4g, though I'd consider an Android too... 1) It’s expensive: Agree 2) It’s anti-technology: no surprise there from Apple. 3) No Flash: Putting a proprietary feature onto a proprietary platform - two wrongs don't make a right. Elsewhere, I read that Flash on Android is slow and a battery hog. It feels that this is less about wanting Flash on the iPhone, and more about a backlash against the iPhone's closed platform per se. 4) No multitasking: Tried multitasking on a Windows Mobile? The phone reduces to a crawl. I looked around Android Apps and noticed quite a few memory and task management utilities - I want to use my phone, and not think about killing apps hogging CPU/RAM in the background. 5) Its battery life is terrible: Possibly because people play with their iPhones throughout the day. Possibly because power consumption is tweaked for performance rather than economy. Possibly because users are accustomed eye-candy interfaces that impose much overhead. 6) Developing apps for it is costing you money: At least when I use that app, it has a high probability of working. My WinMob has these browsers: Opera, Opera 10, Skyfire, IE, Opera Mini, Opera Mini 10, Bolt. Why do I have so many? Because none of them are much good at rendering reliably. I'm by no means a fanboy - much the opposite, I'm quite an Apple Disliker - but I want Things That Work! 7) It comes with offensively bad headphones: Most likely true 8) It’s not very well designed: "It’s a computer that happens to have a phone bolted on" - as are most smartphones now. 9) It charges for satnav: I didn't know this. But I thought Google Maps had turn by turn satnav? 10) Those iPod docks are holding back better technologies: Completely agree. Get rid of that silly connector and use the micro USB connector!

soyelmango 16y ago

I should also ask... Ben, did you post this link because you agree or disagree with the article? What phone do you have and what will you get next?

tomwans 16y ago

This article is nothing short of hilarious. Bad headphones? Dealbreaker.