"David Friedman" <ddfr@daviddfriedman.nopsam.com> wrote in message
news:ddfr-F204B6.12564720112007@news.isp.giganews.com...
> In article
> <linuxlovesosx-2D1408.13355220112007@mpls-nnrp-04.inet.qwest.net>,
> Oxford <linuxlovesosx@superart.com> wrote:
>
>> No handset maker can now compete in the Cell Market against the iPhone,
>> that's a pure fact.
>
> Nonsense.
>
> Different people use cell phones for different purposes; quite a lot of
> people use them simply as phones. For that purpose something
> considerably smaller, lighter cheaper and simpler makes a lot more sense
> than the iPhone.
>
> Some people use them to connect to the internet. Whatever you may think
> is going to happen, at present open WiFi networks are not available in
> most places, at least in my experience. Under those circumstances, a 3G
> phone provides a better connection, especially for tethering, than the
> iPhone.
>
> I could go on. The iPhone is a very pretty piece of technology, and for
> some users probably the best phone available, but not for all, probably
> not for most.
>
>> Apple has too many patents on the future, so
>> everyone must either bow down to Apple or go out of business.
>
> This is the sort of comment--a statement apparently made because it lets
> you feel good about posturing rather than because there is any reason to
> think it is true--that gives me some sympathy with the posters who spend
> their time exchanging insults with you instead of actually posting about
> something interesting.
>
>

It's the "posturing" that is what garners the responses.
The arrogant, **I** know it all, everyone else doesn't piss poor attitude.

(That and the complete disregard for any facts whatsoever)