Why does everyone hate the iphone?

[drift365]

The iphone can edit office documents. there is a free app called docs, and im sure there are plenty more after you jailbreak. I use a microsoft exchanger server every day for my college email. I downloaded a talking gps last night, although i havnt had a chance to use it. You know that fancy port that apple uses? that has video out. Cut copy paste has been out for a very long time all you need to do is jailbreak it. The smallest iphone is 16 gb, which is more than enough, and even if you purchase the 3g, its smallest size is 8.

At first i thought that the iphone wasnt customizable. I know have realized that this isnt true at all. EVERYTHING is changeable. I downloaded several themes to see what they looked like. I can even theme it to vista, or win7

[breakmyfootoff]

If everyone that had an iPhone were like Cybermonkey and Drift I wouldnt be as resistive to the iPhone . Some of the things the iPhone cant do wouldnt bother me too much, but the 3 that kill it for me are:

1 - Flash. I love having flash through Skyfire. Reading a news article and being able to watch the accompanying video is a must to me, not to mention all the sites that you need flash to actually navigate and use the site.

2 - Multitasking - I use it all the time, it is really nice to be able to keep some apps open and running while you use others.

3 - AT&T, There's a map for that. Granted, it's not the iPhones fault that AT&T sucks, but still, its the only network you can get the iPhone on.

If the iphone suddenly got flash and came to Verizon or Sprint I could probably live without multitasking and then the iPhone wouldnt be so bad, but I still think something like the new Motorola Droid or HD2 or Experia X3 would be a better choice since they have larger higher definition screens, better cameras, multitasking, and faster processors.

[codybear]

Originally Posted by bikeandestroyx

They cant really force you to update, especially with an itouch. Jailbreaking is just like HSPLing an HTC phone. Have you actually used an iphone or ipod touch for 30 minutes? I dont get bored with mine, i use mine for music games and browsing, what it was meant for, and its solid.

ya i have actually. an ipod and iphone. both got boring REALLY quick.
some games were cool, and somewhat entertaining after a while, but they too got boring after playing a couple times. kinda like wm games do. and music part is over rated. I've got an mp3 player that works just as good without the added BS that's in an ipod. the itouch is cool though, I could see me getting one of those, but the iphone, no way in hell, jailbroken or not. I'd rather go back to the old flip phones before camera's were put into cell phones before having an iphone. lmfao.
(I'm not anti apple, I've worked for them and loved working on an imac, i love their desktops and some laptops, but iphone no.)

and I've been hearing through the grapevine that it's going to change, it's going to be a over the air upgrade that upgrades without you even knowing.

therefore bricking or relocking jailbroken phones and I'm assuming it'll patch where ever the coding is that allows jailbreaking.
if apple can't make jailbreaking illegal, which they can't, they'll go another way. I've seen them try to do something one way and they couldn't, so they did an even worse work around.

it'll be interesting to see what they do in the next year or so about jailbreaking.....

[latepenguin]

Everyone in my department (yes I counted 25) has an iphone. I like being the only one with a wm device.

[Siq Mawsh]

Originally Posted by latepenguin

I like being the only one with a wm device.

Same.

[drift365]

The iphone can multitask using a program called backgrounder. Im not sure how WELL it works, but it does work. So far ive only used it for facebook and for the map, but for those it works fairly well. There are rumors of flash, but im not sure when they will be implemented. as for at&t? yea it sucks... but it can be unlocked for other gsm carriers

[davidetkin511]

no keyboard!

[gprimr1]

I don't hate the Iphone per say, but I do hate some of the things it stands for.

1.) No keyboard

2.) Carrier exclusivity. (I understand Apple approached other carriers, but it still enforces Apple's "My way or the highway" approach)

3.) Lack of or slow adoption of basic features.

4.) Although the App Store is very nice and centrialised, WM is nice because of it's large 3rd party support.

5.) The idea you have to have an Iphone to be hip.

[Mikeschevelle]

Only point that I need to keep me on WinMo

Sprint 6900 w/ Andriod + $30 SERO with incoming calls + 20% Co. Discount + $7 TEP + Unlimited = Roughly $35

Try even romotely approaching that with iPhone/ATT

I have the best of both worlds, the above sprint package and a 16g Jailbroken iTouch

[redd214]

i would never get an iphone for many of the reasons already mentioned but im not a blind fanboy. you have to appreciate what the iphone did for the cell phone game as a whole. you can hate the device, hate apple, hate att all you want but not a one of you can truthfully say that the iphone didnt raise the bar for ALL cell phone manufacturers