iPhone

[drone]

I think it's about time they work on their marketing.... iMac, iTunes, iDVD, iLife, iPod, iPhone- come on, let's think of another letter to stick in front of our product name eh?

They may be forced to...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070110/...te/cisco_apple

[Spino]

They may be forced to...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070110/...te/cisco_apple

That's hysterical, nobody at Apple bothered to research the trademark beforehand?!? LOL!

I hope Apple loses the trademark and scrambles to come up with a silly alternative. iPodphone? iCall? iRingy? iCell? iOverpricedgizmothathaslousyreceptionandcostsalot?

Realistically speaking Apple will probably pony up a ton of cash and buy out the rights from Cisco.

[Lemur]

So, judging by the sentiment in this thread, none of the objections I raised to the iPhone are salient. The real reasons to avoid it are:

• It does too much
• Apple is teh suxx0rz

[Spino]

So, judging by the sentiment in this thread, none of the objections I raised to the iPhone are salient. The real reasons to avoid it are:

• It does too much
• Apple is teh suxx0rz

You forgot one...

[LIST]It does too much



I'd give Apple a fair shake if their computers didn't sport a default one button mouse for oh, a thousand years and if they actually served a useful purpose beyond basic applications... like being able to play tons of cool computer games.

Seriously now, most of us here in the Org love our computer games. If we didn't then barring any need for 3D, multimedia or intense number crunching work we'd all be perfectly happy with state of the art computers from 4-5 years ago.

Now that Apple has opened the floodgates for the all-in-one phone market I cannot wait to see what the competition has to offer.

(Be nice - Beirut)

[Mikeus Caesar]

You forgot one...

[LIST]It does too much

You forgot one as well!

[LIST]It does too much
I'm deadly serial though, Apple do suck. As countless people in this thread have mentioned, they rely on the 'sheeple snowball effect', whereby one very well known sheeple buys an Apple product, and then more and more sheeple buy from Apple. This gets media attention, and results in even more sheeple buying.

A good example would be my school - a few popular people got iPoops, then not-as-popular-but-still-popular people got them, then gradually everyone got one. Now the only people i know of in school who don't use iPoops are my large group of friends - we all use MP3 players by people such as creative.


And before any Apple fanatics out there go on the defensive against me (if there are any here at the .Org, heaven forbid), might i just point out that i also don't have a great like of Microsoft, but unlike you i don't view them as the 'great satan' - i view them as a company that bothers to allow their software to be compatible with nearly everything else.



(No flame & troll posts please - Beirut)

[lars573]

I think of M$ as the devil I know. Plus competing with Sony in the game console market has forced them to be less evil. Granted only a little.

[Big King Sanctaphrax]

The proprietary nature of Apple products puts me off the iPod, and this too. If, as Lemur alludes to, it can be cracked, I might consider getting one-assuming no other company has brought out a superior product in the same area. The only real things that Apple's gizmos have going for them are looks, which no real geek would pay heed to, and the touch-screen interfaces that they go for, which I dislike. Give me proper buttons any day.

As for Macs, I avoid them as I don't like being patronised by my computer.