You need to spend that to text? My Palm Centro is a texting beast and it's ancient technology. The Iphone is 100000000000000000000% marketing hype. Apple is a turd of a company that treats it's customers like worthless s**ts. They should have just given the bands to everybody as soon as they were aware of the problem. It took the friggin Consumers Union to shame them into doing what they should have done in the first place. If they cared about their customers the way they claim, this would have been a blip on the radar. The mother friggin thing still doesn't have a replaceable battery. Another class action law suit waiting to happen that will get all Iphone users 10 cent certificate at the app store and the lawyers will get millions that could have helped reduce the price of the brick.
Apple makes great products. That's where it ends. The You Tube I posted is true. People believe in Apple like Steve Jobs is Jesus Christ. In reality he's closer to the devil. Apple is bad, bad, bad and I would rather be cell phone free than give that prick a penny of my money.
I dunno, 22 days from start to finish for that bumper issue isn't too bad, it took Nintendo longer to address its wrist strap problem (I don't think they ever even acknowledged it). Besides, I never had an issue, maybe I'm just lucky.
I don't think people are tied to apple the way you think they are...hell, i was "tied" to palm/springboard when it was the best thing out there (well, when getting the iPAQ was cost prohibitive). Steve Jobs may be the messiah now but...well, who knows. Steve Case was almost messiah-like when AOL-TW merged, look where that went.
It's all disposable technology....I'm only loyal in 2 year increments with my phone or 4-5 years for my laptop. I don't subscribe to the whole "oooh steve jobs is evil let's all sing kumbaya and relive the 60's and not give money to 'the man'" idea....it's just a freakin' piece of silicon. they're out to make money, i'm out to keep myself entertained. steve jobs could be a convicted rapist (*true* evil), i wouldn't really care.
i've tried the other products (evo, droid, nexus one, BB) and wasn't impressed. in fact, i got the BB (2nd hand, newer model) and used it for a month and hated it. but we'll see in 2 years. why is this so hard to understand for some people?
random thoughts:
replaceable battery is a non-issue...even my old phones w/ replaceable batteries, i never bought an extra one. same with laptops...people raised a stink when apple sealed it in, a) it's easy to replace yourself anyway, b) i've never once bought an extra laptop battery, ever.
couldn't replicate death grip on my phone or the 7 other iphone 4's i got a hold of that were my friends'. media hype, but i'm sure it happened.
**disclosure: i bought AAPL @ $110 and am currently holding.
