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.