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19:53 - Almost infuriatingly superior
http://www.penny-arcade.com/2007/07/02
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Penny Arcade reviews the iPhone.
Having serviced Macs at one point in my illustrious IT career, I understand that there is simply an Apple Way of doing things, and it is often a very, very good way but it's still their way as opposed to some natural ratio of the universe. It's not universal, and there are strange blind spots, but there is a reason that their chosen people hoist the banner. My old phone, one based on Windows Mobile 5.0, had almost every feature the iPhone has - point by point. The differences between the products (like the differences between their desktop cousins) have to do with how functionality is exposed to the user. In this matter, you'll find that Apple's product is almost infuriatingly superior.
I have been waiting for the ability to manipulate technology by pressing dynamic symbols for basically ever. If you find such things unpleasant, then I suggest you develop a taste for forced labor because by the year twenty-twenty all that sneer is going to get you is a slot in the underclass boiling corpses. Get with the fucking program. Come and touch the neon glyphs.
See the previous post too—and don't forget to check the related comics.
In other news, scuttlebutt is that AT&T's EDGE network crashed all over itself today—apparently completely unprepared for the number of new data users suddenly on it.
UPDATE: The iPhone's gonna flop. You heard it here first. ;)
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Brian Tiemann
1. Mr. Lion - 20:06 Mon 7/2/2007 ( email | web )
I still don't know why Apple would build arguably the best non-phone-geek-user phone ever to see the market, and lock it to the cruddiest network in current use. Given that all the efforts to crack the thing will likely result in someone running X-windows and Firefox on the thing inside of a month, I kind of find myself wanting one. But, Apple can have my CDMA data rates and signal coverage when they pry them from my cold, dead hands.