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- blakecr, on 06/18/2009, -32/+106If you are not a fan of Apple, then GTFO. I don't give a ***** about your Blackberry Storm, or the fact that you have been able to Cut, Copy, and Past on your Sony Ericsson WI80 for 3 years now. I came to read about the iPhone because I finally got one.
P.S. Windows Mobo sucks *****. - DeathJux, on 06/18/2009, -5/+38INSTANT!
- DulcetTone, on 06/18/2009, -5/+26I don't really want to do the homework to become a power-user. I'm paying a Chinese gold farmer to level me up.
- LoneWolf01, on 06/18/2009, -1/+14Tips != steps
- blakecr, on 06/18/2009, -3/+15I bet you look really cool holding that netbook up to your ear jackass.
- ScottKritz, on 06/18/2009, -4/+16I'm loving iPhone OS 3.0. I held off on buying an iPhone for a long time. When I finally gave in and bought one a couple months ago, I instantly fell in love. Nonetheless, this update resolves most of the reasons I held out for so long. Just wish I waited a little longer and got the 3Gs . . . .
- fluidfoundation, on 06/18/2009, -3/+13I would keep a low profile on this thread, friend.
- Braxo, on 06/18/2009, -3/+12Copy and paste for 3 years?
Gee wiz, I remember when I was a young lad I had to remember what I wanted to copy and then write it out by hand.
You guys sure have the life. - blakecr, on 06/18/2009, -2/+11So when you land at LAX and you see Brangelina you pull your piece of ***** netbook out of your bag and tilt the screen towards them, the extra time it took to unzip the bag and tilt the screen just right gets you a nice shot of them walking away, while the guy next you with his iphone 3G S gets a movie and several pics and then emails them to his youtube and flickr accounts instantly.
There is a reason you are getting dugg down.
Give me some more scenarios I'd love to play this out. - LoneWolf01, on 06/18/2009, -3/+9I like how the copy and paste works between apps and isn't just in email/messaging like I would have expected.
- fluidfoundation, on 06/18/2009, -4/+10You're right, I sure miss going into WinMo's memory manager and freeing up ram just so I could launch a ***** app.
- LoneWolf01, on 06/18/2009, -6/+12What if you're not a fan of Apple, but have an iPhone?
- krwlngindark, on 06/18/2009, -3/+8WHAT THE ***** AM I GOING TO COMPLAIN ABOUT NOW THAT COPY AND PASTE ARE HERE! IT'S BEEN SO LONG. I CANT STOP YELLING. MOM WAS RIGHT. YOU DO GET STUCK LIKE THIS!
- blakecr, on 06/18/2009, -2/+7http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCPOIKsjX0c
Actually I am sitting at Starbucks using free wifi from AT&T and since its over wifi I get the news 15 seconds faster that a meteor is headed right for my current location...I jump out of the way pushing 10 senior citizens out of the way saving their lives. Now I am a national hero which helps me when a senate seat in my home state. I serve in the senate for 4 terms which come to the culmination of me running for president and winning. Now I am sitting in the White House remembering about this conversation I once had with this dusche bag on digg about how his netbook was more handy as a mobile device then an iPhone. - virtualball, on 06/18/2009, -6/+10To be a little bit nicer and much less fanboy-y than blakecr right there^, please don't flood this page with "HAH my phone's had copy and paste for 5 years!!!" It's quite obnoxious and really doesn't make you look cooler. Thanks!
On another note, heh, didn't know you could customize Spotlight. I'm ***** thrilled you can't search texts XD - Tddupre, on 06/18/2009, -1/+5no thanks
- mrBitch, on 06/18/2009, -1/+4@ BodaciousPie, absolutely right.
@ aserer511, RE: " .. PLEASE tell me for 1.0 and 2.0 you could hold down the backspace and didn't need to tap it once per character... "
So all of the previous posts and opinions you made RE the iPhone were based on you NOT EVEN USING it ? - jeffmon, on 06/18/2009, -0/+317: jailbreak
- LoneWolf01, on 06/18/2009, -2/+4@ fluidfoundation:
Wrong thread? - BodaciousPie, on 06/18/2009, -1/+3You could hold it down, but it would eventually start deleting whole words (instead of letters) to delete lots of text faster. Problem was, once it started to delete word by word, it was difficult to stop at the right place.
- mrBitch, on 06/18/2009, -1/+3@ mksmothers, RE: " .. I just downloaded 3.0 on to my iphone. I must say I'm undewhelmed. Cut/Paste and a search utility? Serioulsy, call it 2.3, not 3.0."
I think you're forgetting that the big deal about OS 3.0 is NOT about the few changes like copy/paste, etc..
The big deal about OS 3.0 is all about the new functionality of the OS 3.0 SDK and all of the new API calls that new apps will be able to build in.
Wait a few weeks, and check out what the new apps will be able to do with the new SDK.
OS 3.0 is NOT about giving you copy/paste (although that's a nice side benefit), it's about the new SDK and the new API calls that developers will have access to.
The new OS 3.0 apps will blow you away. - brundlefly76, on 06/18/2009, -1/+3plus, you cant eat the paste they use with iphone
- blakecr, on 06/18/2009, -1/+3Ok good sparing. I will concede that I like netbooks.
That was pretty funny, "Since the device is so small and thin the bullet pierces your heart."
You do realize our goofy story is now being briefed in the 43rd level of the Pentagon? - kday, on 06/18/2009, -6/+8While you communicate like an immature, ignorant *****, every point you make is correct.
That being said, I am surprised you are being dugg up. - ElRayQuieres, on 06/18/2009, -1/+3Good blog and good tips... also check out my blog for my latest opinion of you
http://www.*****.com - Cloud7654, on 06/18/2009, -4/+6It sucks being stuck with WinMo. It's so unreliable and constantly freezing up. FML
- neonoodle, on 06/18/2009, -1/+3This thread wins a few internets. The rest of you can go home.
- bonerfide, on 09/10/2009, -0/+1I'm still trying to get Version 3 to sync with Media Monkey and now they release another damn update. Screw you Apple!
- kanningt, on 06/18/2009, -0/+1STFU already
- synthoid, on 06/19/2009, -0/+1TORRENT!
- mksmothers, on 06/18/2009, -0/+1@mrBitch: I hope so.
- kanningt, on 06/18/2009, -0/+1derrr
- itsradBrad, on 06/18/2009, -0/+1I see the problem there. Thanks for the tip.
- homercles337, on 06/18/2009, -3/+4Well, then go to ImAnAppleWhore.com. That should save you some grief.
- blakecr, on 06/18/2009, -2/+3Got the point across early :)
- captainchris, on 06/18/2009, -5/+6no, it's just we graduate from windows and move along.
- mrBitch, on 06/18/2009, -0/+1The copy and paste will work as soon as the app has been updated to include the new api for OS 3.0
You will find that the "Kindle for iPhone" will work as soon as they update their app for 3.0... - 1platypus, on 06/18/2009, -0/+1person?
- srg13, on 06/18/2009, -1/+2Nice job there making massive (and, mostly incorrect) generalisations about many different products and millions of people... Idiot...
- mksmothers, on 06/18/2009, -2/+3I just downloaded 3.0 on to my iphone. I must say I'm undewhelmed. Cut/Paste and a search utility? Serioulsy, call it 2.3, not 3.0.
- neonoodle, on 06/18/2009, -4/+5Can I digg you down because I think you're wrong? I've been a Windows user since Windows 3.11 and have never purchased a pre-built system since that time, preferring to cherry-pick the parts myself. 4 years ago, I needed a laptop so I bought a macbook and MacOS won me over.
The next system I bought was a Mac Pro which was about twice as expensive as a similarly specced PC, but I've never regretted it. The design on the system makes up for the price. I always thought the price gap was a bull-***** money grab but I've seen similarly priced PCs like Alienware and BOXX and when you open the case there's nothing in it that justifies the expense. You just won't find a case as beautifully designed and sleek as the inside of a Mac Pro and if you do you'll be well within the same price range. Every Apple product I've purchased since has the same feel. I just bought a unibody macbook and I spent $1200 - well within the price of competing laptops, but the design of the system rivals anything else on the market.
Same with the iPhone. I was never a cell phone guy. I usually got the crappy free phones they give away with a contract. I didn't camp out to get the original iPhone, I waited until the 3G came out but now that I have it, I'm addicted to it. I feel completely connected to the actual internet at any moment (as opposed to the crappy internet for mobile sites that are an afterthought at best). Yeah, you could get a better camera and better e-mail support and GPS and everything in other smart phones years ago, but the experience on the iPhone is the best one I've had. I splurged for a Palm Treo before for $300 from Verizon a year before I got the iPhone. It was complete garbage that crashed 4 times a day. The iPhone cost the same amount of money and my experience with it, I can honestly say, has improved my life.
I also welcome the competition. Before the iPhone there hasn't been a phone that seemed like it was really worth the money. Now everyone is stumbling over themselves to make an iPhone killer. The competition has already made the iPhone better with this new 3.0 upgrade and it's making competing phones better because people now expect more from their phone, and at better prices.
I could still write pages about how MacOS has improved my workflow dramatically over Windows. I could also talk about how Apple has single-handedly reinvigorated the indie game market through the app store, but I've already wrote too much.
So yeah, I think you're wrong. I'm a power user who has used PCs since I was 6 years old. I couldn't care less about trying to be richer/better/prettier. I care about functionality, and Apple has supplied it to me. - inactive, on 06/21/2009, -0/+1POWER-USER! WITH HYPHEN!
- Philbert, on 06/18/2009, -1/+2The first tip (deleting chunks) is something I've been waiting for for a long time. I subscribe to a few Yahoo Groups and if I'm replying to a message that is long, plus Yahoo tacks on their, like, 3 paragraphs on the end, it takes a long time to hold the backspace button until you've erased all but the part you want. When I heard about the sections I really wanted to know if you could just hit the backspace button to delete the whole block, but no one ever said, so that was the first thing I tried to do when 3.0 finished installing.
Strange thing about Spotlight. It's finding my emails from last year. I delete any email I read on the phone and mail on the server is automatically deleted when I read it. So I have no idea where it's getting these messages from.
As for the Find My iPhone tip, they forgot to mention that's part of a separate service you have to pay more for, so not everyone has it.
Syncing notes only seems to be useful if you use OSX (note I didn't say "have a mac") I don't expect that it will sync notes with Windows and display them in Thunderbird. - aserer511, on 06/18/2009, -1/+2"Tired of the spastic deleting of the delete button? What happens is you hold the delete button, and it starts removing offending characters -- and then it goes on to removing whole words. Next thing you know, you've deleted too many words, and you have to start over. To avoid this, use tap and hold to show the Select|Select All pop-up. Select what you need deleted, hit the delete button and -- poof! -- you've gotten rid of the offending text without trying to judge the speed of the delete button."
PLEASE tell me for 1.0 and 2.0 you could hold down the backspace and didn't need to tap it once per character... - solarisom, on 06/18/2009, -2/+3What about landscape mode and autofill? Those are big.
- Shazbuckle, on 06/18/2009, -0/+1http://apps.rockyou.com/images/facebook/apps/super ...
- thickdrummer, on 06/18/2009, -1/+2Dugg: 475
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Troll much? - kitsua, on 06/18/2009, -0/+1Actually, I regularly read and comment in Apple stories but rarely digg them. It seems redundant.
But yeah, their troll average is stupidly high. Seems like more people who hate Apple read them than people who are genuinely interested. - Philbert, on 06/18/2009, -0/+1Not all apps though sadly, like Kindle. Although I did find out by accident about Stanza's dictionary.
- mrBitch, on 06/18/2009, -1/+2@ superherofive, RE: " ... They are NOT easier to use. (Having 1 way to do something doesn't make it easier.) "
Your post calls you out as someone who's only knowledge is based on what your friends are telling you.
You really should try things out for yourself, instead of relying on other people's opinions to form your own (poorly researched) opinion.
I am a developer, and I have been working with software since the days of DOS (back when there were both PC and MS versions).
I know the ins and outs of SCO Unix, Linux, AIX, Windows NT 4, 2000 (really NT 5), XP (NT 5.1), Vista (NT 6), and Win7 RC (NT 6.1).
Mac OSX beats the pants off Windows, and the iPhone is the best thing that's ever happened to the smartphone class of phones.
I welcome the Palm Pre, since that looks pretty damn impressive as well, and will add even more "heat" to the smartphone class of phones. -
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