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- ehaugan, on 03/18/2009, -7/+34Before the Apple haters take over another Apple accomplishment article, I'll just say :
800 million downloads and yet the resident Apple haters here somehow think the Palm Pre is actually a viable alternative to the "Evil Apple".
Sorry, but you just wont find another phone any time soon that will accomplish what the iPhone has done.
Sure, the Pre and other devices may have SOME features that come close to the iPhone, but you wont find one that is able to all the things the iPhone can do, and as easily I might add.
And this is coming from someone who has gone through multiple phones (G1, Blackberry Storm, various Palm phones) recently in attempts at avoiding actually getting the iPhone.
Try geting push email, calendar, contacts, app store, RSS podcasts, purchasing and downloading videos and audio, all from a single device and then syncing that easily with either a Mac or a PC. You just wont be able to match that, no matter how sweet you think you arbitrary way of trying to perform all these tasks is.
Yes, its expensive and yes Apple is somewhat annoying with the way they are becoming even more proprietary, but considering the other options out there, it still a better option by leaps and bounds than anything else available or even coming down the pipe. - Meocross, on 03/18/2009, -0/+6Sadly you are right, and in addition to the 2060-like navigation interface all the other phones look like *****.
- superkendall, on 03/18/2009, -1/+5Actually I think the Palm Pre will do pretty well, it serves a different market than the iPhone and will probably convince a lot of die-hard Treo users to switch. Some people just cannot be without a keyboard of some kind, and the Pre would be for them...
But I don't think they'll approach the iPhone marketshare, the lure of all the apps is just too powerful at this point. I can't believe Microsoft let Apple get this far ahead. - superkendall, on 03/18/2009, -0/+4Why do you need flash? The only thing I've seen it used much for now is video, and the iPhone handles streaming video just fine (which many sites support when thy see an iPhone instead of feeding up flash)
- boozedrinker, on 03/18/2009, -0/+3It's like another microeconomy.
- MacParrot, on 03/18/2009, -1/+4what is something that timusca is unable to control and something that timusca will never see live!
Apple Haters for $400 Alex! - MrViklund, on 03/18/2009, -0/+21?
- SquareWheel, on 03/18/2009, -0/+2The boy needs his advertisements.
- toxicpiano, on 03/20/2009, -0/+1Yes what is your point? You are comparing a 2 year old mobile platform with 3 (at least) 15 year old Desktop operating systems. They are completely different. Personally I think this a remarkable achievement for a mobile platform.
- shinkou, on 03/21/2009, -0/+1Achievement? What kind of achievement? The number of units sold? The iPhoner population? Income generated directly or indirectly by the iPhone?
I know people started failing to measure since the internet boom, but things like this just irritate me. Pathetic number worshipers. Let me tell you something, the iPhone failed making its way here in Japan because it loses to the feature-rich handsets here. - logandurand, on 03/18/2009, -0/+1App usage statistics would indicate that most programs are rarely used much past their initial purchase.
- Rauby, on 03/18/2009, -0/+12?
- timusca, on 03/18/2009, -0/+1Dude, I have an Apple tattoo... I'm a major fanboy. It was just a joke, so liven up a bit.
- piske91, on 03/17/2009, -3/+4thats huge numbers
- MethodOne, on 03/18/2009, -0/+1Good point, but wrong article.
- phrenzy, on 03/18/2009, -2/+3Wow you are an obnoxious, uninformed douche in politics AND technology! Congrats!
- MrViklund, on 03/18/2009, -0/+1Agreed. Well spoken!
- fc03, on 03/18/2009, -1/+2Why are you judging the product that isnt released yet, say Pre. Iphone is a great phone no doubt but Im wating to see if the Pre lives up to the hype. Until then, I'll say iphone is the best right now but not without character flaws.
- shinkou, on 03/18/2009, -0/+1800 million is surely a very big number. But if we change the word "iPhone" to "PC", "Windows", "Mac", or "Linux", how much bigger is it going to be? I know it's unfair to compare like this, but... what's the point here?
- artfuldodga, on 03/18/2009, -1/+2i'd like to know the number of apps currently in use as opposed to downloaded, considering for every user... they may have downloaded and tried what? 60+ apps each :P
- inactive, on 03/18/2009, -1/+2Ha ha! Good question, I wonder since some develops update often.
- SquareWheel, on 03/22/2009, -0/+1Cause...you know...they post a ton of these...
- sadisticmind, on 03/18/2009, -1/+2how many apps does the G1 have?
- queshy, on 03/19/2009, -0/+0799 999 999 were flash lights.
- sadisticmind, on 03/18/2009, -1/+1but that means that i would never call you- ......ohhhh
- macmcraeart, on 03/18/2009, -1/+1titty jiggler apps are what it's all about.
- MrViklund, on 03/18/2009, -1/+1You like ads? because that and a drained battery is what flash will provide.
- Barackalypse, on 03/18/2009, -2/+2Nope, once again I'm quite correct, go read about Apple moving the player controls into the headphone on their new iPod Shuffle:
"My problem with this is going to be being stuck with Apple's headphones, or having to buy some fancy new officially licensed headphones that also have the new control block built-in."
http://digg.com/apple/iPod_Introduces_Proprietary_ ... - MrViklund, on 03/18/2009, -2/+2I love Apple! Apple is the best company ever and iPhone the best Phone ever!
- MonsterRayn, on 03/18/2009, -0/+0You could use the same philosophy to apply to pretty much anything. When they look at how many songs sell on iTunes, they don't mention that most songs are likely not listened to more than a few times. Once you download it, and the sale is made, who cares if it's used? Car companies don't care if you buy your car, then immediately store it, never to be used again (what most people who can't afford fancy cars but buy them anyway do, for fear of wrecking it).
As is, I probably purchased about 10 programs (the rest were free) and I use those programs at least once a week. Don't use em much more since I work 10 hours a day in a building with zero cell reception. - MightyUpsetter, on 03/18/2009, -1/+1a couple of hundred thousand
- kolobcreek, on 03/18/2009, -8/+7How many of those were dups or due to upgrades?
- inactive, on 03/18/2009, -3/+1The phones alright. Apple still needs to lift restrictions so the Jailbroken iPhone wont dominate reg. iPhone.
- SquareWheel, on 03/18/2009, -4/+1Thanks Digg, keep me updated.
- darthgoat, on 03/18/2009, -4/+199% fart apps.
1% useful apps. - spiffza, on 03/18/2009, -5/+0How many of them were downloaded and deleted ?
- ProKid, on 03/18/2009, -6/+1Call me when they hit a Trillion
- inactive, on 03/18/2009, -7/+2Dane Cook sucks
- etx313, on 03/18/2009, -7/+2I give this 800 million careless faps. Seriously, who cares. 90% of them are garbage anyways.
- StigNordas, on 03/18/2009, -7/+2that's a lot of farts.
- Palaceguard, on 03/18/2009, -6/+1Wake me up when they have 3.0 and flash to download
- inactive, on 03/18/2009, -7/+1ITS OVER 9,000!!
:P - Barackalypse, on 03/18/2009, -8/+2That must represent a revenue stream at least as great as proprietary headphones!
- timusca, on 03/18/2009, -9/+325,000 apps - fart and titty jiggler apps = 3 apps.
- inactive, on 03/18/2009, -10/+3***** THE RIAA
- rydawg09, on 03/18/2009, -11/+1Buried for inaccuracy.
- williepepper, on 03/18/2009, -11/+0Whot's an iPhone?
- inactive, on 03/18/2009, -11/+0iPhone jailbreaks hit this number over a year ago. Nothing special.
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