Friend asked why I didn't buy an iPhone...

[1up]

When I got my TP2 last week, I didn't even tell anyone. They all assumed it was another iPhone like theirs. Then I popped out the keyboard and tilted up the razor sharp screen to watch youtube on my desk, and their jaws dropped. Then I loaded up a page in Opera and showed them clearly readable text with the screen zoomed all the way out.

WM users have the option of HD-res devices while the iPhone users are all excited to finally have video. We have the option of keyboards that can crank out real emails in a respectable timeframe, while still having the convenience of quick texting with a very stable onscreen keyboard. Apps only available on the iPhone? Pocket PCs have a library of years worth of apps available. When I got my TP2, I popped the MicroSD out of my Titan and instantly had access to more than 2 GB of software, photos, docs and music on my TP2. No syncing required.

[L4z3r]

My Answer......................
1) I like the freedom to change, tweak , make my phone mine.
2) I love the open capability to design and build my own programs.
3) I like NOT TO ASK PERMISSION from anyone.

and Lastly THIS IS THE IPHONE KILLER PHONE... and to quote Pinky and the brain " This is how we conquer the world!!!!!"=D>

[southphillysean]

IPhone? Never heard of it.

[rorytmeadows]

http://www.gaycities.com/iphone/

[razorloves]

Originally Posted by rorytmeadows

http://www.gaycities.com/iphone/

i'm in the military so i'm use to the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" homosexual policy. So, I won't ASK why you even know about that app, and you don't have to TELL us either. LOL. keeps everyone in the closet, if that's where they want to be. lol

[psycho_maniac]

and this is why i hate the iphone. everybody thinks its the coolest because of the comericals and stuff. they dont realize our phones can do a lot more.
can you really not take out the battery? so i can assume that its just like the ipods?
i asked a guy that was selling a car for some pics of the car. he said he couldnt but he could email them from his iphone. doesnt att also have a special plan for iphones? thats stupid if they do. or is it pretty much just a smartphone plan but with the words iphone on it?

[brownhornet]

Originally Posted by kabuk1

My answer to "why don't you have an iPhone" is always...

"Because I'm not a tool."

Replies like this are what make think of people of just being plain idiots. If you dont like the device fine, but thinking less of someone because they like a device OTHER than what you like is just plain idiocy. And to the guy that said he turned down business because of what type of phone people have... I look for your business to flop. Either you're lying or just a plain moron for that.. who turns down money because of a phone? It's obviously going to be biased towards winmo here and I get that considering its a winmo forum for the most part, but some of these replies are just hilarious.

You would think winmo doesnt have any shortcomings by reading this thread but having actually been a winmo owner for years some of us know better. Are there things the tp2 does better than the iphone, sure. Are there things the iphone does better than the tp2, plenty. I said it on another thread, I dont get why people are SOOOOOOOO sensitive when it comes to the iphone. If you dont like it, dont get it. But to assume someone owns one just because of marketing and not because they prefer it over winmo is once again, idiocy.

I have both, and both have their advantages.. moreso leaning on the iphone side for me. I guess people that like their phone to work out of the box without having to flash roms, do 50 million tweaks, change interfaces and do all kind of hacks to it just to get it to do what it should have done out of the box are all considered to be "sheep." Funny thing is, obviously those people are in the majority.. and thats something some of you in your small world need to realize.

[Big Calhoun]

My feeling has always been this, every device is not for everyone. Plain and simple. Quite frankly, I don't think the majority of iPhone users have the brain capacity to use a WinMo phone.

I get into this debate frequently on a social board that I frequent. And I say the same thing: I've never once said the iPhone is a bad device. BUT, they are beginning to enjoy features that I've enjoyed for years. The iPhone isn't setting the bar, it's still trying to reach it. For my lifestyle and needs, WinMo phones do what I need them to do, currently.

I like the leader and the follower answer from a previous post. Or, as I like to put it, I like to be the driver of the wagon instead of a passenger.

[Scrufdog]

i just let them know that my old Hitachi G1000 could do more than an iphone can...

[JKoltner]

Originally Posted by theTastyCat

...when she saw my new TP2. What would you say?

1) Higher screen resolution (800x480) makes web browsing better (particularly when zooming in and out doesn't work quite as well on the TP2 as it does on an iPhone ).
2) A real keyboard is preferable if you do a fair amount of texting/note taking/etc.
3) Generally cheaper data plans (well, at least with Sprint, that I have)
4) None of this non-sense with the end-user not being able to easily add whatever software they want without Apple's approval. The whole notion of having to "jailbreak" *my own friggin' phone* is ridiculous to me.
5) More really powerful utility programs, like WMWifiRouter, AirNet, etc. if you're into tethering, war driving, security, etc.

I don't expect (4) or (5) matter with that many people, but they do to me. Still, I have nothing against iPhones -- if someone gave one to me (along with a paid service plan) I certainly wouldn't turn it down. Windows Mobile vs. the iPhone is a lot like regular Windows vs. the Mac OS -- the former tends to be a little more down and dirty (although it does wash up nicely), whereas the later is pretty "upper crust elite" which sometimes just isn't what you want.

I don't think anyone can deny that the iPhone really caught Microsoft off-guard and they've been scrambling to catch up ever since. (Recall that Windows Mobile 6.5 wasn't initially on Microsoft's planned release schedule at all. And it's kinda sad that HTC has had to expend so much effort with their TouchFlo 3D to make WM phones at least *look* nice compred to iPhones.)

At the *hardware* level, other than perhaps multi-touch, WM phones have been able to do everything an iPhone does for *years* now. Yet Microsoft was never really pushing to make their software really "polished" and "slick" (not to mention "bug free"). While I'm sure everyone here was using Mobile Internet Explorer and Mobile Office for years before the iPhone came out, you have to credit Apple with getting people to realize that a phone could do all these things... and they made it "fashionable" to boot, by paying so much attention to thinking about how to integrate this sort of functionality on a small touchscreen device. (Something Palm has always paid a lot of attention to as well...) I mean, I know that there's far more software for WM than for iPhones, but until recently did the average WM phone user even know that? I think not -- I'd bet that at least 80% of all WM phones never had one 3rd party application loaded on to them. Apple's integration of the "App Store" was a very smart marketing move, and of course this has now been coped by Microsoft (and Palm).

Competition is a good thing here... but we need to be careful that Windows Mobile remains "good" enough to keep plenty of good developers around -- I've read that a lot of former WM developers are now switching to becoming iPhone developers, and even SmartPhone magazine has now become iPhone Life magazine! Sheesh!

---Joel