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- thehead21, on 08/25/2008, -4/+58Be Careful! You can drown in just a teaspoon of iPhones.
- sufuninja, on 08/24/2008, -6/+43They can start at my house.
- Murrabbit, on 08/25/2008, -12/+45Wait, does this headline that for once Apple is going to adopt a competitive business strategy rather than just sit back and smugly market over-priced under-performing electronics to technophiles with more money than good sense?
I'll believe it when I see it. - OneLess, on 08/25/2008, -8/+41My first thought was "Onion headline" :)
- locojones, on 08/24/2008, -11/+39Shouldn't they fix the problems in the first batch before cranking out more faulty handsets?
- MacParrot, on 08/25/2008, -2/+25The program lags and case cracks are certainly something to complain about, but you knew going in it didn't have copy/paste and MMS and you bought it (according to you) ANYWAY??
If a product doesn't have a feature you feel you need and you buy it with that knowledge, what does that say about you? - pembloke, on 08/25/2008, -2/+22I recommend water - much cheaper and more environmentally friendly
- xelloss, on 08/25/2008, -2/+17Apple if you want to sell that many iPhones get out of AT&T and go with all the carriers.
- EmperorPsiblade, on 08/25/2008, -0/+15OP's a troll, this is nothing more than a list of various minor problems that have no real standing
Never seen case cracks, 3G service seems to work fine around here, I see no lag on 2.0.2, and the only time I wish I had copy/paste is for calendar events.
Other than that, it's a well engineered phone. So it's not 100%, it's damn close though - chazuk, on 08/25/2008, -7/+20Looking at his complaints it seems he did have one as I experience them EVERY ***** DAY.
- masterkenobi, on 08/25/2008, -1/+14I may or may not agree with you, because I didn't really finish reading since I was running back from the graveyard after your wall of text crit hit me for 9k health.
The enter key is your friend. - benologist, on 08/25/2008, -1/+14I don't see how they're going to sell 45 million or more. In most of the world they're a pretty expensive purchase and in developing countries they're well out of reach for most people.
- psylence, on 08/25/2008, -4/+16Not as long as people keep throwing money at them.
- jnordb, on 08/25/2008, -0/+12So I take it you're not interested?
- adairnic, on 08/25/2008, -2/+12RIM? Samsung? Sony Ericsson? Just sayin'
- cheapotheclown, on 08/25/2008, -7/+17With all the bad iPhone publicity out lately, just wanna say I'm loving mine (2 week owner). 45M seems pretty ambitious but if any phone can do it... it's the iPhone.
- MacParrot, on 08/25/2008, -1/+10WOW! You are SO anti-trendy! I wonder what you'll be like when you grow up?
- NotaFanboy87, on 08/25/2008, -3/+12Math is neither your friend nor your forte... nor is english. First off, it woud take 4.5 times the number of phones they've sold already (ASSUMING they've actually hit the 10M mark) and that they would have to sell an additional 35M phones to hit that number.
Also, it wouldn't take them ANOTHER 20 years to sell that many phones, since the iPhone has only been out a little over ONE year.
In other news, proofreading boosts your Digg IQ. - Azerael, on 08/25/2008, -0/+9If they do hand one out to you, can I have it?
- DickyT83, on 08/25/2008, -4/+1310,000,000 x 35 = 45,000,000?
- Zique, on 08/25/2008, -1/+10If 45 million iPhones a year are "drowning the world", then what's Nokia doing by selling 400 million phones a year?
- GeneValdorry, on 08/25/2008, -9/+17The iPhone has the looks, but lacks the quality. I stay with Nokia or Samsung for a while.
- inactive, on 08/25/2008, -1/+9Do you shop at Hot Topic?
- MacParrot, on 08/25/2008, -0/+8It would be impressive except he's using this site to generate the verbiage...
http://www.pakin.org/complaint/
That just makes him an idiot and I digg down every post like this that I see. - mindsnare, on 08/25/2008, -4/+11I doubt the problems are as widespread as the intertubes would have you think. It's just that owners of the faulty devices are more outspoken, and rightly so. I know quite a few people with iPhones, I've got one myself, and there's nothing wrong with it, although copy/paste would be nice.
- Jholder112233, on 08/25/2008, -1/+8They can only come to my house when the contract price becomes more reasonable.. (UK)
That's the only thing holding me back. - drjones78, on 08/25/2008, -1/+8Nokia, Motorola, HTC...
Hell, many of them ship 700$ phones with cheap plastic casings. - DesktopGeo, on 08/25/2008, -1/+7Ahem.. ever hear of an "iPod?"
- ryrocker, on 08/25/2008, -0/+6ur post was too long to read...
so i skimmed through it...
so far i read:
love, men, planet, and bent....
this article is about iphones not gay porn. - Murrabbit, on 08/25/2008, -0/+6Throw the verb "mean" in there somewhere.
- swimtwobirds, on 08/25/2008, -2/+8he didnt have one. the - omigod wheres the cut paste mms- ***** flags it. troll.
- StuartGibson, on 06/14/2009, -1/+6Really? £35 for 600 minutes, 500 text and unlimited internet? I'm very happy paying that, it's significantly better than anything Orange were offering.
- supermanred, on 08/25/2008, -2/+7I actually peeked at the web URL before clicking through to the article. I was surprised it wasn't an onion article myself. 45 million damned iPhones? Holy *****!!! They would be the market pwners in no time!
- jedinsyd, on 08/25/2008, -2/+7Why does this make digg?
Nokia sold 435 million of the 1.15 Billion phones sold last year.
That makes them the largest supplier of Phones, Cameras and Audio devices.
I was thinking the other day about how developers are so happy to write programs to sell on iTunes when clearly there is a market more than ten times larger writing the same app for Nokia headsets (Symbian?). Does anyone know of a Nokia online app store though?
I was at the Google Developer conference and I am pretty confident that Android when available to low cost Chinese hardware manufacturers will take a larger share of the market than Apple. - aliguana, on 08/25/2008, -0/+5yes. you can.
- Zique, on 08/25/2008, -1/+6No, 200 million. Nokia 1100 is the most sold consumer electronics device in the world, it's sold more units than iPod, playstation etc.
- zang74, on 08/25/2008, -0/+5"1. 3g problems are serious enough that a class action lawsuit has been filed"
http://www.gp.se/gp/jsp/Crosslink.jsp?d=444&a=4405 ...
3G reception is comparable to it's competitors. Frankly, people sue Apple all the time for frivolous and false reasons. Few of them actually win though.
"2. Case cracks are real despite your insistence they are not"
I've heard lots about this, but have yet to see any photographic evidence. It may be happening, but is it a widespread problem? Likely not. Apple critics generally bark the loudest and get the most attention.
"3. No copy and paste is a problem, I use it on every other OS, why not the iphone? Your defense of this makes no sense."
A physical keypad exists on most other phones too, does that mean the iPhone has to have one? Sure, cut and paste is handy, but does not having it detract from the function of the phone? No.
"4. MMS is available to jailbroken iphones, but they most likely didn't want to jailbreak their iphone."
I'm glad Apple hasn't included it in the iPhone. It's a savagely overpriced protocol whose entire purpose seems to be to bilk contract holders for even *more* money. Work out the cost per kB of sending an image over MMS, and tell me users aren't getting shafted. - edwartica, on 08/25/2008, -2/+6That ought to get the hackers to start writing viruses for them!
- StuartGibson, on 06/14/2009, -2/+6Anf how many of those Nokia are ones you could install apps on rather than being the cheapest phones available that have basic features and nothing else? Then how many of the remaining Nokias have a standardised feature set that means apps can be deployed to any of them? Now where is the well establised, centralised distribution system and small payment processing system that is independent of the carrier?
Apple have those problems already solved and have made the process completely seamless. Not to mention the great deal Apple have made for developers that completely turns the mobile app market on its head. - zang74, on 08/25/2008, -0/+4"Yet the whole world chose his OS over everyone else."
"Chose" isn't exactly a good word. What you meant to say was "forced to, using anti-competitive tactics and agreements; including:
1). charging all PC makers for a Windows license for all new machines, regardless of whether said machine even shipped with Windows on it.
2) Forcing out of competitors like DR-DOS from working with Windows 3.1, despite having legally reverse-engineered MS-DOS.
3) Continual violation of anti-trust laws around the world (and subsequent prosecution of antitrust violations by national governments), including those of the US, EU, China, Brazil, Taiwan, South Korea.
4) Blacklisting journalists who speak negatively of the company." - inactive, on 08/25/2008, -1/+5More like Ctr + A ---> Delete is his friend.
- Urkel, on 08/25/2008, -0/+4First step to drowning the world in iPhones: Don't FORCE people to use only one carrier.
I think the iPhone is great and all that but I'll gladly use an Android or copycat phone if it means I can choose what provider I will sign up with. - dragossh, on 08/25/2008, -1/+5Maybe it's your 3G network? 3G seems to work fine here in Romania.
- notpmoc, on 08/25/2008, -1/+5Ahh yes, the Starbucks approach to business.
- StuartGibson, on 06/14/2009, -0/+3Yet weirdly I bought my iPhone because the interface, reliability and feature set suit me.
- KDX200rider, on 08/25/2008, -1/+4I think the real plan is to drown Digg in iPhone posts.....
- clockdist, on 08/25/2008, -0/+3There is more-than-enough of a cellphone market in the world to accommodate the purchase of 45 million iPhones.
- JorgeGT, on 08/25/2008, -1/+4Source? that would be awesome...
- GregFD3S, on 08/25/2008, -1/+4I'll get one once they make them available for Verizon, because i'm NOT switching to AT&T.
- elliam, on 08/25/2008, -0/+3I see lag on the phone, but in the course of any given day I will use the browser, google maps (and GPS), the phone, contacts, and a few other apps. It's when the phone app lags that I get frustrated. Even if the OS is trying to juggle a few things in the background, I would think that the phone part of the iPhone would have ultimate priority.
Just my experience.. 3G reception is good and I don't use the phone to pound nails so the case is great. -
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