Comments on: A letter to Steve Jobs about iPhone

By: Marion Anastas

Marion Anastas — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 13:55:51 +0000

I am really upset about the price of the iphone. I have saved my money for the phone for at least 6 months, so I could get it. I also only got the 4 because of the price of the 8 was too much for me. I have the phone now and feel like I got an inferior product. The $100 voucher is not enough. I would like to exchange the 4 phone to get the 8, since I paid more than the price now. Also very upset about only using ATT for the service I was with verizon and had to change. I still feel that verizon is a better company and has better service than ATT, and now I am locked into a company for 2 years. You have made me doubt apple as a company and I have an apple computer. It has only been 2 months since I had the phone, and I thought I had the best. I also don’t understand why you can’t download music for your ring tone that is not rocket science and every other phone does it. If it was so far advanced why is it not possible? I am sad that I paid $500 for a phone and it is not state of the art. I guess I didn’t think about it long enough. I hope that the future iphones don’t have more features that mine because I have to wait 2 years before I can change my phone and get a updated verson. I also want to say that the speaker phone has terrible reception is is difficult to hear. I hope my comments have been heard . Thanks for listening

By: Apple vs BlackBerry vs Nokia — Alec Saunders .LOG

Apple vs BlackBerry vs Nokia — Alec Saunders .LOG — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 12:22:48 +0000

[...] comparison (via TechCrunch) of iPhone to Blackberry was fun, if predictable. Dave Winer weighs in as well, describing his experiences. The net of it: if you want a [...]

By: Alec

Alec — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 11:25:15 +0000

Hey Moderate — check out the Nokia N95, for starters. It’s my day to day phone — stores up to 4G of music, syncs with PC’s and Macs, displays full web pages (and Nokia has been doing this for two years), is completely software upgradeable with new apps, has a GPS, 5 megapixel camera… etc. Yeah, it doesn’t have the touch screen, but I am not sure I would want one, as I said.

The iPhone is cool, but aside from the touchscreen, other devices have had these capabilities for a long long time.

By: iPhone Moderate

iPhone Moderate — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 17:46:09 +0000

I’ve had my iPhone for several days now, and I have to say it is very cool. I’ve never seen another phone made by Microsoft or any others, that can do all the things this phone can do, so I’m not sure how you can write such an article that tries to downplay what it is.

No single device has been able to store this much music, sync with PCs AND Macs re: contacts and calendars, display FULL web pages and not the dumb-downed mobile web pages, be as upgradeable as this phone is, or have such a cool, touch-screen interface.

That said, though - I’m still unhappy about the lack of voice dialing primarily - BUT, that is something that can be handled with a software upgrade - and that’s cool.

So, it is somewhat revolutionary, but it is also over-hyped. It is more than just a pretty face, definitely - but it isn’t “all that” - not yet anyway :) Apple is always leading and Microsoft is always following - one only has to look at the evolution of the PC to see that. Vista does what Mac Os’s like Tiger have been doing for a few years now. Mac IS innovative :)

By: iPhone Go » iPhone Madness

iPhone Go » iPhone Madness — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 04:34:51 +0000

[...] Since the announcement the internets seem to have exploded in a flurry of excitement and anger. For some people the iPhone is more than they exer expected it to be while others see it as not living up to their own personal hype. I think itâ€™s a pretty impressive little device if it works as advertised. Itâ€™s not necessarily reinventing the idea of a mobile phone but instead changing how theyâ€™re used. Iâ€™ve been in the market for a new phone since I got my first cell phone. None Iâ€™ve seen to date have really impressed me. Every time I find one with cool features itâ€™s almost invariably gigantic. Svelt and sexy phones either lack any useful features besides calling or have software interfaces designed by sadists. [...]

By: iPhone Madness at Wonderful Toys

iPhone Madness at Wonderful Toys — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 07:20:33 +0000

[...] Since the announcement the internets seem to have exploded in a flurry of excitement and anger. For some people the iPhone is more than they exer expected it to be while others see it as not living up to their own personal hype. I think it’s a pretty impressive little device if it works as advertised. It’s not necessarily reinventing the idea of a mobile phone but instead changing how they’re used. I’ve been in the market for a new phone since I got my first cell phone. None I’ve seen to date have really impressed me. Every time I find one with cool features it’s almost invariably gigantic. Svelt and sexy phones either lack any useful features besides calling or have software interfaces designed by sadists. [...]

By: Roger Smith

Roger Smith — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 07:48:18 +0000

iPhone is available with Cingular ONLY!? And what if I am stuck under contract with a carrier OTHER than Cingular but still want a iPhone?
Well, the only solution I could fine was http://www.Cellswapper.com - they get you out of any cell phone contract!

By: Roger Smith

Roger Smith — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 07:48:18 +0000

By: pramod

pramod — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 07:46:11 +0000

Alec , I liked the way you expressed your thought .
There are people who do not know or kinda do not want to say “Kudos” for something good.
But I found something different in you.
You have said everything.

I completly agree with you in some of your points :

*Only two megapixel camera.
*Doing VoIP on WiFi too.
*Cellular data while on a call

I disagree with :
*Acessing the phone calls while driving.

You have not talked about the memory of the iphone.Seems you are least bother about that.
After all I liked your post.
Thanks

By: iPhone, consumers have the last say! : Meandering Passage

iPhone, consumers have the last say! : Meandering Passage — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 19:50:15 +0000

[...] I don’t know of any other single product announcement that has generated as much posting, conversation, and controversy as the iPhone. It’s form, function, features, carrier, and even it’s name are being both praised and criticized. You couldn’t pay for this much publicity. Moshe Maeir’s post “Is the iPhone the first phone worth criticizing?” compares this to the introduction of the first Mac, which, while not perfect moved ahead of many of the computers at the time. Many bloggers such as Alec, Robert Scoble ,Â Paul Kedrosky and others came out with criticism of the iPhone. Their comments reminded me how when in 1983 Apple introduced the first Mac (128k, one floppy and no hard disk), Alan Kay (at the time a Apple Fellow) compared it in an internal Apple memo to â€œa Honda with a one quart gas tankâ€ well designed but â€œit can only take you to the corner store and backâ€. However with all his misgivings, Kay considered the Mac to be the first computer â€œworth criticizingâ€. [...]