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Its not a complaint about the design or the technology or even the build of the phone. Its just the way its way too overrated. I mean apple gets to release a touch screen one button phone and then if you go just make a touch screen phone with 2 or 3 buttons its supposedly out to kill the i-phone. I find that as plain bullshit as well anyone can make a touchscreen phone with good stuff in it and be more popular. I dunno but the whole i-pod with a phone installed is just crap as an idea but then again we do have the walkman and express music line BUT then again they are phones with extra branding for music so yeah i just hate the i-phone in general for its overrated powers.
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Posted: 2009-01-31 17:31:56
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rant over?
are 10+ million people (and me) wrong? and btw, there's 2 buttons on the iphone, 4 if you count the up/down volume control, 5 if you include the silence button!
also, if "anyone can make a touchscreen phone with good stuff in it and be more popular"... why hasn't anyone achieved that? to me, the fact that most manufacturers are aiming at iphone type functionality suggests that the iphone itself has been revolutionary in the industry
Personally, having never used an apple product, not even an ipod, prior to the iphone, and now its the mobile device I have had the longest, says something to me about it... so it seems to me that it is not overrated, and I haven't even begun to speak about the impact of the apps shop, which again other manufacturers (palm, microsoft etc are trying to emulate) or the jailbreak community...
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Posted: 2009-01-31 17:48:30
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of course it's overrated. it's apple, so it can only be expected.
the iphone has sold predominantly though hype, image, and (successful) marketing, just like the RAZR did in its day. like the RAZR, it is equally limited. both were the dumb blonde of the mobile phone world. there is no doubt that the iphone does 1 or 2 things very well (such as the touch screen), but overall, the iphone is a fashionable yet extremely limited, overpriced, and overrated device.
it's bit like pop albums selling by their bucket load, even though the 'artists' are less musically talented than a brick. conversely, highly talented artists often never get signed and have microscopic sales..
it's all down to marketing and hype. in other words, the number of sales says nothing about how good or bad a product is.
[ This Message was edited by: Brightspark on 2009-01-31 18:12 ]
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Posted: 2009-01-31 19:04:51
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people buy it because its "cool", it's UI is state of the art, but thats where its talents begin AND end IMO.
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Posted: 2009-01-31 20:33:44
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I'm the same as masseur, never owned an iPod or any ever Apple product. Only thing which I used before I got it was the iPod Touch. Of course the iPhone is overrated, what would you expect?
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Posted: 2009-01-31 22:33:15
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On 2009-01-31 17:48:30, masseur wrote:
are 10+ million people (and me) wrong?
Yes - and most of them are either too thick or deluded to admit it! Besides, it's a pathetic argument - what about the millions of people buying other phones every single day; are they wrong? Or let's put it into another perspective: What about the millions of Germans who supported Hitler, and the other millions of Germans who claim Hitler and his troops didn't gas the Jews. Are / were they wrong?
On 2009-01-31 20:33:44, MWEB wrote:
people buy it because its "cool", it's UI is state of the art, but thats where its talents begin AND end IMO.
Totally agree with that. It's an overrated piece of you-know-what, and so is all of Apple. No wonder their stock fell to the ground when Steve left the post as CEO. That just goes to show what an overrated company it truly is.
[ This Message was edited by: Mizzle on 2009-01-31 21:44 ]
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Posted: 2009-01-31 22:42:14
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Apple makes weird and so expansive products and also unique stuff. It has its bad sides as all the phones of the world ... It's like the troll "you're a mac or a pc" and yeah it's overrated i think Apple will soon collapses...
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Posted: 2009-01-31 23:04:42
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Personally, I can't see the attraction, its missing so much I've become accustomed to expect from a mobile device. There is too much I simply can't do with the iPhone, hence I haven't even considered getting one.
I have to say that sitting here tonight, in my humble abode, I have lost count of the amount of iPod, iPhone adverts I've caught out the corner of my eye, that have flashed over my tv screen, and that sort of blanket advertising and clever marketing is an awful large part of it.
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Posted: 2009-01-31 23:11:52
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Apple does a bloody good job at overating their products from marketing them before they go on the shelves... This can only result in an overated product.
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Posted: 2009-02-01 01:27:29
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@Brightspark and the others
Thanks for giving us a sober opinion!
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Posted: 2009-02-01 05:55:25
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