http://www.cloudgoessocial.net/2009/05/19/µmonitor-rejected/

So firstly things I bought iPhone then. Mmm well when I bought HTC G1 was not even out yet and there were only rumors about Nokia phone so then there were no clear competitors and now when they are out for few reasons I would say that they are not true competitors tough they are good in their own way.

Now things why I bought it:
1) Was multi-touch and in that it does not have competitors still as far as I know. You may argue that this is just a toy thing but for me it is future of interfaces as it allows to simulate many input interfaces single-touch/mouse or keyboards just can’t. Of course it is new yet unpolished possibility that is not properly used often but it those cases I was used properly… Damn that felt good :)

2) and 3) eBook reading and video watching. Here iPhone 3.5 inch is not enough but still decent in compariosn to G1, Nokia 5800 and coming PRE… I would actually like 4′ or even 5′ screen instead to have more pleasure reading eBooks but no Phone has anything like that so far… At least any reasonable phone(saw some crazy Chinese things or something)

4) Another thing is iPhone graphical capabilities. I am computer graphical programmer my self and iPhone has not powerful but video card(rather chip)… At the time of buying it there was aether no such information on other phones or it was known that they do not have it.

5) And finally I read RSS feeds as papers now on a go so Wi-Fi and browser was a must. Flash would be nice but eh…

So in conclusion.
No competitors in 1

Almost no competitors in screen size. iPhone screen is already little it smaller then I want but most other phones in same category have even less(pity Pre has small screen :( ) I agree there are some HTC current;y with better screens tough it is pretty hard to get them here as local operators do not support any of those as of yet.

Not completely shore but as far as I can tell no competitors in 4 aether.

And in 5 plenty of competitors most of which will have Flash soon(while noting is known about that for iPhone) so here iPhone lags and will lag behind…

So my count here in iPhone vs competitors is
iPhone 2.5 : 1.5 on those topics.

Also I would agree that it is little bit biased as I am software developer with interests in computer graphics and games which makes multi-touch and 3D so important to pick phone based on that. Important experience for the future as I see it :)

Windows Mobile? HAHAHAHA!

Microsoft is the single worst DRM monster in the entire tech industry. Trash Apple, fine. But don’t go around suggesting MS as a solution. That’s just embarassing.

If you want an open platform, go for some variant of Linux.

Share Wars : The Counter-Productive Menace

Featuring Apple as Anakin, a future lord Vader on his quest to become the biggest and best jedi ever, only to succumb to the dark side.

oh well just another reason why they will never achieve more than 25% of the computer market.

Apple’s rejection of this application makes about as much sense as the above statement I provided. It’s a shame a perfectly good application and technology is very often associated with only ONE of its many uses (and that one just happens to be the illegal type of usage). It’s not like the app had embedded thepiratebay.org or torrent searching capabilities.

compliments to lack of sales to the dumbass who thought of this.

lan3y

You can just download files from rapidshare, megaupload, etc.

you are correct about how the ipod came into existence. but it didn’t get popular because of that.

and besides its illegal to encode your disks as they can be used to infringe 3rd party rights

so according to you just because you have legal music then all or at least 90% of ipod/iphone users have legal music. if so then why the hell is there piracy at all

Dude, are you a goddamn moron? ever heard of Windows Mobile for God’s sake?

Perhaps you should do just a little research before you buy your next phone.

“So far there is no real competitor to it in things I use it for”

I find it extremely hard to believe that there isn’t equivalent or better options on Windows mobile for whatever you’re talking about – and even if there isn’t just use the iPhone emulator which seems to run a tad slower than iPhone… well, only if it’s a CPU intense app, otherwise it’s faster.

I never get why people are so enamoured of iPhones when Windows Mobile is so much better – although does require a little expertise. But that’s what you get for having many times more power in terms of choices and what you can do.

Hell, I see my HTC Touch HD is can be found cheaper than iPhone – sorry, Apple users are ripped off again.

No you’re wrong, completely. FUD ALERT, FUD ALERT, FUD ALERT!!!

The iPod originally came into existence because of a niche in the marketplace for a hard-drive based player for the fast growing new audio format when all the competitor mp3 players at the time were small capacity (128Mb, 256Mb) flash-memory based players. The first gen iPod was only 5Gb after all, but that was enough to hold a reasonable number of albums so that you didn’t have to carry loads of CDs or tapes around with you.

My mp3 collection is completely legal (in as much as I’ve encoded all the albums I’ve bought over my lifetime including vinyl, tapes, Minidisks and CDs augmented by legal downloads), but is still too big for the largest iPod, so your assumption that illegal downloads created Apple’s marketplace for the iPod is completely flawed.

You also forget to take into account any of the iPod’s other uses – storage for Photos, Videos (TV Shows, Movies, Music Videos), Calendars, Documents, Contacts and not forgetting it’s a portable hard-disk too, so there are many justifications for owning a larger capacity iPod beyond just filling it with music.

But to reiterate – suggesting anyone with that much music is an illegal downloader is not only erroneous, but most likely a reflection of your own failings in life and lack of appreciation for the vast world of music out there. You could probably fill several 160Gb iPods very quickly if you only ever downloaded legal free music given away by independent artists – and it’s almost always much better quality (in musical terms) than anything being released by a major label.

Stop trying to spread FUD, and stop believing it yourself!

Musicians are making music and that’s leading to infringement. Ban.

Humans are seeing stuff and remembering it. Ban.

By the way, we should ban all photocopiers, optical media burners, etc, as they surely MIGHT be used for copyright infringement as well. Or let the MAFIAA implement a special chip that will compute hash of each piece of paper run through the machine and compare it with their blacklist… we will end up having MAFIAA microchips implemented in toilet paper as well, who knows, maybe someone will start copyrighting/patenting pieces of sh*t as well… :o)

are you joking? The iphone has lots of “competitors” most of which it is losing in sales to I might add. Most PPC’s are more efficient, easier to use, faster, and have better software/support than the iphone. Open your freakin eyes and put down the kool-aid…christ…it’s amazing how easily people are brainwashed by marketing.

The rumored ET carts that ended up at the landfill were actually programmed by Atari. One of the best third party software publishers for the old Atari VCS/2600 was Activision, which was founded by former Atari programmers who were tired of being treated poorly by Atari. Your example was badly flawed as Activision was known for programming much better games than Atari at many points in the old VCS days.

God… I feel old.

I’m not a fan of any company that considers proprietary as innovation.

Apple’s logo has one bite taken out of it, because the apple is poisoned and the person who tried to eat it fell into a deep sleep.

Apple’s logo is colorful and fruity; it had the colors of a rainbow, because Apple’s plan was to lure the female and gay community with fantastic dreams about refreshing fruity kisses from royal heroes.

Apple has always aimed to corner the female/gay market, trap it into a deep manipulative sleep, disarm all whom sleep of their privacy and freedoms, then wake everyone after the market can no longer recognize how Independence was replaced by slavery and an evil Monarchy.

Apple = Witchcraft!