{"id":207,"date":"2009-10-20T14:57:28","date_gmt":"2009-10-20T20:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.briandeyo.us\/brd\/wp\/?p=207"},"modified":"2009-10-20T14:57:28","modified_gmt":"2009-10-20T20:57:28","slug":"why-cant-i-enjoy-the-iphone-like-everyone-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.briandeyo.us\/index.php\/2009\/10\/20\/why-cant-i-enjoy-the-iphone-like-everyone-else\/","title":{"rendered":"Why can&#8217;t I enjoy the iphone like everyone else."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is an unavoidable trught: The iphone has become\u00a0a status symbol of smart phones.\u00a0 Other phones try to compete with it, 75,000 applications exist for it, \u00a0and\u00a0iphone owners are fanatical about them.\u00a0 I just don&#8217;t understand at all what is so fantastic about them.\u00a0 What do they do that other phones don&#8217;t?\u00a0 What can&#8217;t they to?\u00a0 I have a lot of animosity towards owners and defenders of iphones, as they can&#8217;t clearly tell me what is better about them, instead of a different device.<\/p>\n<p>Since I&#8217;m not an iphone user I will point out the things I find great about it, and the things I find less than great.\u00a0 This article in no way claims to be unbiased, but I am trying to not be such a hater.<\/p>\n<p>What makes the iphone great:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Large 3.5&#8243; screen.\u00a0 Damn nice screen.<\/li>\n<li>Fast.\u00a0 Where everyone says the inability to run multiple apps suck, I disagree as that is how the iphone keeps running so damn fast.\u00a0 If the other OSes ran a single app, they would be just as responsive.<\/li>\n<li>Consumers get it.\u00a0 This is great to see technology in the hands of many.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What I dislike:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You have to use iTunes to work with it.<\/li>\n<li>You can&#8217;t tether it.<\/li>\n<li>No RDP<\/li>\n<li>No SD card slot<\/li>\n<li>Proprietary USB cord<\/li>\n<li>No physical keyboard<\/li>\n<li>Unremovable battery<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>None of these items make the device a show stopper for most people.\u00a0 So why can&#8217;t I just let it go that more and more peole are popping up with iphones?\u00a0 I feel rather like a Linux administrator trying to tell all the windows users that there is a better alternative.<\/p>\n<p>I really hope someone can give me some concrete examples of why I should think the iphone is so great.\u00a0 I would also really like to finid out more information on what the iphone doesn&#8217;t do.\u00a0 I have seen the Droid commercials and also read the critiques of how inaccurate they are.\u00a0 So what doesn&#8217;t the iphone do?\u00a0 A few months ago it wouldn&#8217;t show you free\/busy information from an Exchange server.\u00a0 They fixed that now so I can&#8217;t point that out as a shortcoming.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 If nothing else so there is at least a list in one place instead of having to surf a dozen different sites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My growing list of likes and dislikes with iphones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.briandeyo.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.briandeyo.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.briandeyo.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.briandeyo.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.briandeyo.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.briandeyo.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211,"href":"https:\/\/www.briandeyo.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions\/211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.briandeyo.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.briandeyo.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.briandeyo.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}