I didn’t take it personally cause I know you have a lot more insight on this kinda stuff cause its how you make your living.
Just with my experiences with the iPhone and people I know with it. It wasn’t about its functionality or ATT’s (lack of) service. It was all about “app this, app that…blahblah” so it comes off as really gimmicky to me. And still does.
And I keep mentioned AT&T’s shit service because when I had my iPhone I never got service anywhere.
Apple just did what they always do, which is take shit that already existed and put it into a smoother, easier to use interface, making it “cool” to use and more appealing to the layman. That’s the good side. The downside is that they also make their stuff hyper proprietary, which I suppose helps the bottom line when you have an exclusive business model. It’s absurd to say the iPhone’s only fault is limited customization, though.
No, it really isn’t. Customization is pretty much the backbone of every phone out there. The ability to change the phone’s interface to your liking, or enabling features you’re interested in, even something as simple as getting the background on it that you want is part of that. Apple pretty much removed all that. With the iPhone 4 they tried to fix some of it, but there’s a reason jailbreakers like the platform so much. The hardware across the board is pretty good. The radio needs to be looked at again because reception is super spotty. God help you if you’re in an area where the coverage blows. That’s one place where the iPhone 4 suffers.
The iPhone isn’t exactly “hyper proprietary” either. It’s not like a mac where you’d want to put some new shit inside the box and get fucked out of that option. Phones don’t work that way. Apple did fuck up with making the battery non removable and not allowing any memory expansion, but then again, they’ve done that with every iPod ever. I think folks are kinda used to that.
The apps, on the other hand, get fucked sometimes. There are some great apps out there for jailbroken phones that aren’t allowed on the app store because apple doesn’t like getting upstaged. I have an app on my phone that turns off the 3g signal when I lock my phone. That shit has doubled my bettery life. MiTube lets you download and save youtube vids. SRSettings, I think is what it’s called, lets’ you do a pull down window similar to android that puts a lot of basic functions right at your finger tips.
If anything, I’d say the biggest problem with the iPhone is that you really don’t get it’s full potential until it’s jailbroken. Same way with the PSP. The PSP becomes a much nicer system once it’s hacked.
I’m not sure where I lost you. You didn’t say biggest limitation, or one of its limitations. You said only limitation. That’s what I took issue with.
Just because Apple customers are used to stuff being proprietary doesn’t mean it’s any less proprietary. You can also consider the proprietary limitations it shares with the iPod, such as the charger interface.
