The iPhone botnet, coming soon to an over-priced phone near you

Originally Posted by Shin

The iPhone botnet, coming soon to an over-priced phone near you

Originally Posted by Shin

As well as further proof that the iPhone is one of the worst pieces of consumer electronics ever to be jizzed over by badly informed idiots

Originally Posted by Shin

Anyway, I wasn't really looking to bash the iPhone here.

lol

The main reason I own an iPhone is because I'm a badly informed idiot. I didn't take the time to research what would be the most convenient option for me, and instead proceeded to buy whatever dumb, poorly-conceived products that Apple has constantly let me down with over my many years of unhappily using their products. I bought it because it's what all the trendy hipsters are doing here in New York, and being rather new to this city at the time, I figured I needed something to help me fit in. Thankfully, Apple heard the cries of a social reject in need and made a phone that catered to my idiotic notions of what makes a phone good.


Alright, in all seriousness, the iPhone is a great piece of technology. The only shitty thing about it, really, is AT&T. It would be great if you could get the phone unlocked, but that's just the way it is. Many carriers have exclusive phones and this is no different. Hopefully when the exclusivity deal ends I can get back on Verizon, but for now, AT&T will do.

I love my iPhone because as a Mac user with a MobileMe, it syncs up with everything extremely easily. There's pretty much nothing to it, and that's just what I like about it. I don't care to spend a lot of time syncing up my music, calendars, and contacts, so just being able to plug it in is a great thing for me.

I also love how flawlessly they've integrated the iPod and the phone together. When I first flirted with the idea of getting an iPhone, I'm pretty sure Shin and lurker said I should just get a Blackberry and keep the iPod because doing otherwise would make me an idiot (I'm paraphrasing). Well I'm glad I never went down that road. They've integrated the technology beautifully. When I'm listening to music and a call comes in, the song fades down nicely and I pick up the phone. Then when the call ends, the song fades back up. It's elegant and it works real nicely. It's nice to have one small object in my pocket that does both things instead of two products, and if I were to get a call, not having to fumble around pausing my music and taking off my headphones and taking out the Blackberry and hitting the talk button and then ending the call and then putting the phone back in my pocket and then putting on my headphones and then hitting play again.

It's the little things that make the iPhone great. The usability is flawless. The UI is simple, elegant, and it works like all Apple apps tend to do. The apps are excellent. Some of them are fun, and some of them are incredibly useful. Spotlight is a nice new feature to the 3.0 software, as is undo and copy/paste. Yes, I've heard it a billion times, it's been in other phones before. But has it ever been integrated so nicely?

So it can't run multiple apps. Big deal. It runs the iPod in the background and that's all I (or most people) really need. So it didn't have Push for a while. Again, big deal. Push is only a necessity in an office environment and they've only recently began selling it as such, and even then, do you really think it will compete with Blackberry in the office environment? No, so who cares.

It's not a perfect phone, but it's miles from being a bad phone either, and a majority of its users aren't the ejaculating morons you'd like to think they are.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by nuttyturnip

Exactly what can you do with text messaging that can't be accomplished via 1) email 2) instant messaging or 3) using the damn phone for its intended purpose?

Well the obvious benefits of texting over email/IM is that you don't need to be tied to a computer to do it.

As for texting rather than calling, it's just easier sometimes to text small bits of information instead of calling. If I'm at a bar I could just text "3rd and St. Marks" instead of picking up the phone, calling, hearing the phone ring, and then shouting into the phone while I barely struggle to hear him the person on the other end.

And I mean, that's just one example. Texting is mainly used for small bits of info whereas a phone call is good for a conversation. Since phone calls are mostly used for small bits of info, texting is a suitable replacement.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

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Like I said (Even if it was hidden behind the trolling), the iPhone is fine if all you want to do is make phone calls and play with the Apps, in fact it's great for that but I think people are silly to pay for them when you can get literally every other phone there is for free with a contract with a minimum of bargaining

You go on about these magical free phones that exist somewhere but in America you'll never find them. Anywhere.

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and just about everything the iPhone does is done better by something else. It's a jack-of-all-trades phone which more so than any other Apple product, is a victory of style over substance.

I mean... You're just wrong here. There are some things the competitors have over the iPhone (push notification, camera [and even then the new 3GS has a nice camera], physical keyboard) but in general the iPhone out-performs many phones in all the important areas. What phone has tighter integration with your computer? Which phone has such an intuitive UI? What phone has seamless media playback with the phone features? Which touchscreen keyboard even remotely comes close to the iPhone's? Which phone has a search engine like Spotlight? Which phone has as robust an app store? Which phone is as aesthetically pleasing?

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All phones come with software to integrate your phone with a computer. Blackberry synch is exceptionally quick and completely painless and I'm pretty sure the latest Nokia software integrates your phone with iTunes and Windows Media Player if you want it to (Not installed the latest software yet but will this weekend once Nicola's new E71 is activated. Awesome phone, Nokia's version of the Blackberry essentially).

Yeah but who wants to install additional software? If you use a Mac, the iPhone works with what you have and that's it. If any of that third-party shit works well on a a Mac I'd be surprised anyway, since most third party drivers are broken as fuck.

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Personally I'd never use a phone as a music player because it'd reduce the battery life so badly and the iPhone wouldn't be viable because Apple's constant efforts to stop people hacking them mean synching with iTunes is asking to have your custom firmware overwritten.

My iPhone can last 2 work days for me without needing a recharge, which includes over 2 1/2 hours of music a day (commute to and from work and gym), plus staying on to receive calls. I charge it every night so it's never a problem anyway, but in the event I sleep over my girlfriend's and forget my charger, I'm fine for another day.

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I think the whole texting thing is a cultural difference. It just didn't catch on in America like it did everywhere else in the world. Maybe Americans stay at home more than the rest of us?

I dunno man. Texting is pretty rampant here among young people.

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Texts are also handy if a phone call would be inappropriate, in a lesson at school for example or at the cinema

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This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by a lurker

I think the trend is to higher-seated theaters, but there are still plenty of theaters in the US that are situated on a lower incline. So I guess your mileage may vary.

I've actually found that while you see the screen better with stadium seating, you're also more likely to see some pleb texting in your lower peripheral.

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