On Sat, 24 Nov 2007, Tinman wrote:
>> I don't really care about iPhone at all. My disdain is for fanboys.
> Your disdain is apparently meant for yourself, based on your overly-dramatic
> writing "style" (over a phone--you ain't fooling anyone with the "I don't
> really care about the iPhone" nonsense).

No, my distain is for fanboys, and especially Oxford. But I'll whack you
on your noggin with a clue-by-four if you insist.

I was offered an iPhone. I turned it down.

> As for "fanboy" your posts are as out of touch with reality as any fanboy
> posts I've seen, characterized by changing arguments midstream and never
> really addressing core points (certainly not rationally). But like a hamster
> on its wheel, you'll keep up your anti-iPhone campaign, never actually
> getting anywhere. Too funny...

All this means that you can't answer the criticisms:

As a mobile phone, iPhone omits many standard features of modern mobile
phones and is locked to an obsolete EDGE network.

As a mobile device, iPhone has inadequate screen resolution, doesn't
support current web technology, and doesn't allow third-party apps (not
yet, anyway).

As a high-end MP3 player, iPhone's memory capability is woefully
inadequate.

It's a jack of all trades, and master of none. Nobody would buy it if it
was called the Microsoft Zune phone instead of the Apple iPhone.

iPhone is an overpriced and overhyped flash in the pan. Now that every
fanboy who wanted one has one, there's no more market. iPhone will not
kill other mobile phones, nor seize control of the mobile phone market for
Apple.

iPod Touch, iPhone's ugly sister, is in worse shape. Just a day after
Black Friday, Wal-Mart is selling it for $50 less than list price. The
iPod models which are selling are the less expensive and higher capacity
models. iPod Touch will be dead shortly.

Even worse news for Apple is that the EU seems to disapprove of iPhone's
business model. Like Microsoft, Apple seems to think that it is above EU
law, and it is now finding out otherwise.

-- Mark --

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