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Re: Why is iPhone not considered a smartphone?

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Originally Posted by testacon View Post
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?

That's just it. It is smart enought to run anything. You just need to abuse Apple's policies to use some of it, but it can still do it. It's not any different than WM in that aspect. Hell, when I first got the HTC mogul it couldn't send mms without a hack. The stance from HTC was that it wasn't their problem and Sprint had the balls to say it wasn't capable even thought it was the top of the line phone they had at the time. Someone then came up with a work around and Sprint followed up by contacting the developer and making them stop. I believe they even demanded the source code for the program so they could block it out. All under the threat of lawsuit. Of course they came out with an official update that enabled mms and all was well after. That is not much different than the Apple practices you are complaining about. And by the way, even though I was unable to send or receive picture mail, Sprint still forced me to pay for it for the privelage of owning the Mogul. The business practices of the manufacturer and the service provider don't make the phone any dumber or smarter, just more challenging to use. And flashing is like sex. If you aren't always thinking about it or doing it or doing it feverently, you're probably not doing it right. Flashing WM is a drug. You better believe that one. As far as the old computers go, the first one we had was a Texas Instruments. I believe it was like T100 or something. I am sure one of you remembers better than I did. I remember copying programs for games out of magazines and saving them to casette tapes on a recorder that was plugged into it. Memories are a bit fuzzy considering I was like 10 at the time. Where's the emulator for that?