What I have come to realise about the iPhone
You were waiting for something profound weren’t you. Well before that comes, here’s one of the runners up for the supidest iPhone app ever. The iSnort.
Rather than buying an iPhone and paying $5 for a virtual cocaine app. I’d rather spend the $500 or so and buy a good quantity of cocaine. It has the same sort of user experience – big, loud, noisy, stupid and clunky but the fun lasts a lot longer. I found the iPhone’s entertainment factor lasted about five minutes. $500 of cocaine would probably get you at least a week’s worth.
Anyway on to the epiphany. I just realised something. Whereas the out of the box the iPhone experience is rather limited. A good smart phone will give you things like a decent email experience, office apps, voice recorders etc. Apple in their brilliant mindedness have encouraged developers to add the features that other smart phone users have come to expect as standard in dribs and drabs. For example on the Nokia you have a fully featured Twitter client called Gravity, whereas on the iPhone you have about two hundred different apps. One will read your friends tweets, one for composing your tweets another for sending them and so on. Just to get the same type of experience you do on other phones you need to buy at least ten applications!
Apple are ingenious. They give you what is basically the poorer cousin of a 1990s analogue mobile (or cell) phone but with a pretty screen and you as the sucker who bought one go out and waste thousands of dollars on trying to compete with those people who own a smart phone like the Blackberry, Symbian or Windows Mobile line. Those people who bought an iPhone are basically coke heads. They need to buy more and more to make themselves feel adequate.
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Dude u speak the truth. i had to hack an iphone for a friend and was surprised to see that most of the things i take for granted on my 6230(i’m working on it) are not even present on the iPhone. a fuctioning bluetooth, ability to understand my message center numbers and video recording. for me the iPhone is just gimmicky but i have to give up to their marketing department, that’s the only way you can get a sub standard phone and make it ‘the best thing’ in the market.
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