I remember when I was selling these at O2 when they first came out - I actually remember using a lot of the responses you have up there and that is why I had to reply to this! Customers would be asking similar questions…

Obviously, some points are just plain outrageous (those made in the article you responded to)…I still think the iphone is a great phone, from the excitement of being able to play with it before it came out, till now!

Kam

It’s a freakin’ phone, already! Sure, it’s nifty; it’s not the second coming, though.

I have a cell phone and an MP3 player. Both work extremely well. Each one cost me less than US$30. What’s the iWhatever have they they don’t have? The perceived cultured nature of the owner. While I have nothing against merging form and function, simply purchasing an overpriced item for the cachet can’t really be ‘defended’. It’s like buying a cup of Starbucks coffee for $4 when you can get the same amount of coffee next door at the mom & pop shop for 65 cents.

In short: your possessions do not justify your existence. You’re going to have to do that on your own merits.

Apple is more well known for their software than their hardware anyway. I wouldn’t expect to have to go out of my way in order to improve on something that is considered the manufacturers forte. Especially when the same functionality is available from several cheaper more comprehensive alternatives, albeit lacking the obligatory Apple ‘Wow’ experience.

Though the more tech savvy of us would commit to unlocking the iPhone to get the best out of it. Invalidating our warranties to do so, is not exactly something i would be advising customers to do. And the majority of people wouldn’t know how to, where to or even that it was possible! However those people are unlikely to be reading this blog either

YouTube is a fantastic integration i’ll give you that, and though Android is likely to allow the same level of integration in the future, there’s always something to be said about being the first. It’s interesting that you would mention using Edge to access YouTube though. O2’s Edge coverage is the poorest of all the networks, and pretty much restricted to major towns and cities, so the rest of us accross the UK are out of luck! And using Wifi to access the internet would drain the battery even MORE than using 3G!

I don’t hate the iPhone…any more than the iPod I just think the devices themselves rely far more on the ‘wow’ factor than actually being a cutting-edge devices. “Looks and feels good to a niche market, lacks in practical application” Pretty much sums up everything Apple have ever made. It’s a good start, but could have been so much better realised.

Julian: Please see your comment moderation queue.

Thanks for this good post. *Thumbs up*

I cant speak for everyone who has one obviously, but since unlocking my iPhone i can tell you that it certainly isn’t an average phone. I can pretty much do anything i want with it now (except send mms, lol) even to the point where i could run an apache web server on it if i so wished! Not really an average phone now is it?

I can see why people hate on the iPhone but honestly when you have one for more than a week and see all the awesome little aspects of it along with the brilliant development community then there is no longer any reason to *try* and justify your purchase, it does it all for you.

Case in point, i was down London visiting an old friend, he wasn’t really all for the iPhone but after constantly picking up and playing with it he totally fell in love with it. He even ended up watching Trap Door on YouTube (over edge) at about 2:00 am as our hotel didnt have Wifi.

Anyway i’ll leave it at that, some people like them, some people dont. Most people havent even had time to try one!

No hard feelings about the post. However, I’m not happy about the design of your blog, it looks remarkably similar to the Dialaphone Blog. You might want to read this: http://www.dialaphone.co.uk/blog/?p=791

Regards,

Julian.