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Why don't Nokia, Palm or RIM come up with an iPhone killer? The technology is there to do something way better. Palm has a similar user interface, plus an environment open for third party applications, hello?
Momentum, inside the box thinking, designers working for
engineers instead of the other way around. There probably a
number of reasons, but I would think that are working on
something. By then Apple will change the paradigm with the next
version of the iPhone and the other phone manufactures will once
again be playing catch-up.
what you want and the the market decide.
As to limiting amounts, who hasn't run into a TV sale at Best Buy
(limit one per customer) ? Same thing.
The view that Apple is draconian in some socio-utopia is absurd.
walk away. I decided to stay, but that was my choice.
So now shut up and find a better use of your time, instead of
your virtual picket line.
Morality = Maximizing Free Will. Apple is being immoral here.
It doesn't take a gun to the head to force someone to do something. Apple holds a monopoly. If we want something as powerful as the iPhone, there is no other alternative. THAT is the gun to the head.
that's that. Next topic du' jur?
Apple fans have had to indure years of being scorned and
laughed at by PC users. Asking a salesman about a Mac a few
years ago and the first thing he would tell you is that you don't
want to buy a Mac. If you persist he will break down and tell you
he knows nothing about them so he can't really help you. Ask
where the software section for the Mac is and they would show
you a tiny section. Tell somebody you had a mac and they would
laugh in your face. Through it all Mac owners loved their Macs
and would do anything to keep it from going under to the evil
Microsoft Empire.
To sum it all up, Apple fans are loyal to Apple because they feel
they have been through a lot already together just to have
survived all these years. Right now Apple is kicking serious butt.
It's computers, mp3 players and now the iPhone are all at the
top of the heap and their stock is showing the results.
When Apple is under attack the Apple faithfull will come to its
defense. We may seem like Apple employees and I guess in a
way we are, but we don't get paid. We do it for free because we
want Apple to keep making the products we love.
to use and...hey, look good while they're at it.
It's simple. I doubt you'd find Microsoft customers as loyal..only
zombified.
article quotes Apple spokeswoman Natalie Kerris, but no paper trail
to the policy. I am not saying that the policy doesn't exist, but I
need more than an AP article before I would believe it.
Preemptive response to the inevitable troll: Yes I am an Apple
FanBoy
I am not a reseller, I don't even own an iPhone yet (until it can do exchange that is).
I just think, if someone wants to buy some iPhones and resell them in Poland, where users have no chance of getting an iPhone for years to come, well that ok by me. Its not a rip off if apple is not in that market.
There is no way I can currently do this on an iPhone. The only way I could really think to do it is to edit the document (if there was a way I could) and email it.
Hopefully Apple will be able to counter some of these short comings for business users so I can switch too. I really like it but at this point its a consumer device not very well suited for business... just my take =]
You would not miss entering data by a stylus, or having to remember Graffiti or some other specialized language at all. Once you've used an iPhone, the thought of that seems so-o-o-o 2003.
negatives and positives...
Point one: I was bummed out on a phone that doesn't have a
voice recorder = thus reQall works wonderfully... and is free.
Point Two: handwriting... why doesn't Apple support Newton
technology ?
Point Three: SD chips.. that's a quagmire ... on what standard do
you base that on?
end of diatribe ... :-)
The writer WAS absolutely right in using 'Libertarian' in his article.
cards. Bite me. Steve Jobs is very greedy and he makes Bill gates
look like a saint.
95% - now Google is (as well as others) are going put increasing
pressure on MS ... are you sure you want to engage in this
argument ?
- Hm sounds alot like Applesoft and Steve Gates
- by crusadex October 30, 2007 7:12 AM PDT
- Pretty silly huh.sounds like ol Stevey boy is alot like Mr.Bill.
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Showing 2 of 2 pages (132 Comments)Tell the people what they want and control what they do with it and how they do it.Does anyone really own an Iphone that they paid for?Or is it like every copy of windows,just a liscence to use it.