[CyberMonkey]

Originally Posted by winmobilelawyer

Lets face it. The iPhone itself from a hardware standpoint destroys ALL windows mobile phones and all phones for that matter (including the diamond). The screen is huge, completely beautiful, and way more responsive than any other phone.

However, its APPLE + AT&T. Why is this a problem? Before I rant, I do not hate apple or its products, just their business mode of operation. I own and have used my 60gb video ipod for about 3 yrs and it's not going anywhere. So here is the rant. YOu can't browse through a PPC forum without seeing hundreds of complaints about Sprint and Verizon and HTC and everyone "crippling" device features. Well guess what? Apple is the king of crippled devices, they just lead you to believe otherwise. DO you honestly believe that Apple did not have the resources to put GPS and 3g speed into the first gen iphone? 3g has been around for gee I don't know a million years now? But this is what Apple does, they make a "revolutionary" phone and purposefully, yes purposefully, leave out KEY features knowing in just ONE year they will simply put them into a new version and make the previous version comepletely obsolete. I mean c'mon, there are folks in this very forum who are STILL using PPC-6700's!!

FUrthermore, they completely lockdown their devices. Hello iTunes? Funnily enough, Microsoft is the only one who gets sued for having a monopoly. While we in these forums usually say that we are "hacking" our WinMo phones, most of the tweaks are simply that, tweaks. In order to do anything that Apple hasn't formally given you permission to do, you literally have to hack your iPhone. Why should I have to wait for Apple to allow me to do something with MY property.

As far as AT&T, do I really have to explain this? Ridiculously priced data plans and crappy service. However, to their credit they do get the latest and greates devices usually first and/or exclusively.

And as a side rant, something I have been saying for a long time (and ironically is something I heard Steve Jobs say) is that software companies should make their own hardware. I'm waiting for the Microsoft Phone.

Don't get me wrong, there are days when I hate my PPC lol. But trust me, the freedom of use with PPC's is worth far more than a beautiful piece of hardware.

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agree with you 100%