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Originally Posted by fozmsu
Why do people say the iphone isn't a smartphone because Apple is too strict? That has little to do with it. Other people try knocking it by saying you have to jailbreak it to be able to do smartphone stuff. That just means it is in fact capable. I unlocked every WM phone I had and flashed it to get it to work the way it should have out of the box. What's the difference? Saying the iphone isn't a smartphone because it doesn't support flash means that there wasn't really any smartphones until about a month ago. I really wish WM would just die. It turns you into a crack addict with all the constant ROMs coming out everyday. You can't stop. I would load several ROMs onto my SD card before work everyday just so I could flash via SD all day at work. It affected my family, friends and work. Thank God for that intervention. From now on, I'm staying clean. Nothing but iOS or Android for me.
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And how is Apple any better? You jailbreak your phone, then Apple comes out with a new iOS and you upgrade, breaking that jailbreak. You impatiently wait and wait for the new jailbreak and the cycle continues on and on again. I flashed my phone, maybe, once every few months. It all goes toward that leading edge vs bleeding edge, after a few hundred people test it for me, only then do I reap in the benefits.
Maybe not classifying the iPhone as a smartphone is too extreme of a statement. It's just a lame smartphone (because of Apple's policies) that you have to keep screwing with it to make it usable. So I'm kind of confused why your bashing WM when Apple is really not any better. Sure there is 100,000+ apps but I really don't need 99.9% of them, just most of the ones that they refuse to approve.
See as previously stated a "smartphone" should be smart enough to run ANYTHING that was programmed for it. Apple's smartphones are only smart enough to run anything that THEY say can run on it. If you cripple a smartphone abililty to run programs, how can you justify calling it a "real" smartphone?