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Cost me $399 through telesales, minus $111 service credit, minus $50 coupon, and I'm going to send in for a $75 rebate, an iffy $100 rebate (supposed to work for all Sprint Smartphones, but doesn't list the Mogul since it's so new), and I'll try for another $50 coupon.
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Just like the Wii, iPhone is so revolutionary that no competition will be around for several years.
Besides, Apple's real advantage lies in iTune and its interface design. Other tech companies, mostly infested with anti-social geeks, won't catch up for a long long time. Deep-pocketed Microsoft, Sandisk, Sony already already banged their heads futilely in the MP3 market. Why should Motorola, Sony-Ericsson, Palm fare any better? I only see Nokia and Research in Motion as serious competition to Apple, with Samsung as the wild card. Also, Apple is targeting for a small percentage of the cellphone market, and it's competing in a market segment not even Motorola and Samsung can keep up with. |
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Originally posted by One_more_turn
Just like the Wii, iPhone is so revolutionary that no competition will be around for several years. You have a talent for hyperbole, my friend ![]() Also, Apple is targeting for a small percentage of the cellphone market, and it's competing in a market segment not even Motorola and Samsung can keep up with. Its a consumer phone for the people with money to spend. The pros who are using Blackberries are not gonna switch anytime soon. |
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Originally posted by nostromo
You have a talent for hyperbole, my friend ![]() iPhone's features are not revolutionary, its interface is. Same deal with Wii, none of its components or games are revolutionary, but it's the interface that makes the difference. It's a pity that Microsoft and Sony still don't get it. Personally, I'm waiting for more reviews and I want to be sure it does not have any annoying bugs. |
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Well, multitouch seems to be a great way to resize a pics...
But, frankly, I don't need all the **** that comes with the iPhone. Give me a basic phone and a 8GB iPod and I'm happy. I don't give a flying **** about instant messaging or keyboards or watching videos or surfing the net) Anyway, multitouch or not, all the critics are raving about the iPhone's interface. With the exception of the virtual keyboard, that is. |
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Aside from the touch interface, LG Prada doesn't come even close in terms of email, voice mail, video, audio, and web-access user-friendliness.
LG will never be able to convince any US carriers to its terms, and neither does LG have the iTune. iPod and iPhone would be nearly as popular if it were not for the iTune. It's the iTune that provides Apple hardware with easy-to-get contents, it's the iTune that forces Record Labels to eat the $1 per song pricing scheme, it's the iTune that causes EMI to give up the DRM, and it's the iTune, not some AT&T store clerks with huge stacks of paper work, that activates the iPhone. Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui iPhone's features are not revolutionary, its interface is. Bollocks. The LG Prada (KE850) already had a similar interface. It just doesn't have the Apple PR machine behind it. |
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Originally posted by One_more_turn
Just like the Wii, iPhone is so revolutionary that no competition will be around for several years. ![]() Besides, Apple's real advantage lies in iTune and its interface design. Except: 1) iTunes' interface is a POS on Windows. 2) no one wants to need a desktop program to use their phone. |
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Originally posted by One_more_turn
I don't understand the hostility against Apple. What's so great about other tech companies that you have to trash Apple at every turn? What have Microsoft, LG, Nokia all have done for you that warrant your defense? What is so great about Apple that you have to deify them at every turn? The complaint isn't about Apple (though there is plenty to be mad at them about, locking you into a vertically integrated system in anything they do being a chief complaint), but about the fanboys who seem to think they are some sort of Godlike company and the reason their marketshare is so low on computers is because of dastardly tricks or something. I mean, really, the iPod, the iPhone, etc, are all triumphs of style over substance... if you like style, fine. But don't yell at the rest of us because we want something else with more substance but less style. |
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Originally posted by nostromo
Except that the iPhone is not a mere phone, its also a MP3 player, you can also watch movies on it, there will probably also be games. Things you'll be able to buys or download on the iTMS. Which is silly, since the phone has ****ing WiFi. Let me download that stuff on the phone. |
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