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Old 10-05-2009, 03:00 PM
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Re: Why does everyone hate the iphone?

To me, I see the iPhone as the worlds smartest dumbphone... The key feature (IMHO) that makes a smart phone, smart, is the end user's ability to change and customize things the way he or she wants with minimal effort. This is not the iPhone out of the box. Granted, You can jailbreak to change a theme, But really, Who likes voiding their warranties just to change a theme... Apple has a problem with never wanting people to muck up their ideas of perfection. but the thing they forget is that they THEMSELVES mucked up someome else's idea of perfection too when they started building the first apple PC.

The ability to tweak, customize, change, and NOT void your warranty by doing it. Is the key requirement for a phone to get "Smartphone" status in my books.

(Look at phones for sale today and see what I mean. Just about every dumbphone can change its wallpaper, But how many can change entire themes, or allow custom created ones to be installed. Can't say I've seen many.)
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