Why can’t I enjoy the iphone like everyone else.

It is an unavoidable trught: The iphone has become a status symbol of smart phones.  Other phones try to compete with it, 75,000 applications exist for it,  and iphone owners are fanatical about them.  I just don’t understand at all what is so fantastic about them.  What do they do that other phones don’t?  What can’t they to?  I have a lot of animosity towards owners and defenders of iphones, as they can’t clearly tell me what is better about them, instead of a different device.

Since I’m not an iphone user I will point out the things I find great about it, and the things I find less than great.  This article in no way claims to be unbiased, but I am trying to not be such a hater.

What makes the iphone great:

• Large 3.5″ screen.  Damn nice screen.
• Fast.  Where everyone says the inability to run multiple apps suck, I disagree as that is how the iphone keeps running so damn fast.  If the other OSes ran a single app, they would be just as responsive.
• Consumers get it.  This is great to see technology in the hands of many.

What I dislike:

• You have to use iTunes to work with it.
• You can’t tether it.
• No RDP
• No SD card slot
• Proprietary USB cord
• No physical keyboard
• Unremovable battery

None of these items make the device a show stopper for most people.  So why can’t I just let it go that more and more peole are popping up with iphones?  I feel rather like a Linux administrator trying to tell all the windows users that there is a better alternative.

I really hope someone can give me some concrete examples of why I should think the iphone is so great.  I would also really like to finid out more information on what the iphone doesn’t do.  I have seen the Droid commercials and also read the critiques of how inaccurate they are.  So what doesn’t the iphone do?  A few months ago it wouldn’t show you free/busy information from an Exchange server.  They fixed that now so I can’t point that out as a shortcoming.  As I find more and more things that I dislike about the iphone, and hopefully more and more things I do like about it, I will add it.  If nothing else so there is at least a list in one place instead of having to surf a dozen different sites.