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By AlvinCool on 3/17/2008 4:02:33 PM , Rating: 4
I agree that apple pulled a magnificent marketing stunt that paid off in spades. I believe that there are other high end phones that are better than the Ipod. I believe the Nokia N95 is possibly a much better phone and platform, but nobody would buy it cause it's expensive. However with the correct marketing they got people to buy a vision, cause what they bought wasn't worth the cash. Like the commercial where the guy buys art then puts it immediatly back on sale, alot of people just didn't understand what they were buying. Just that it was cool.

RE: In other words, re-phrasing what Miner said...
By Pirks on 3/17/08, Rating: -1
By wayout41 on 3/17/2008 4:23:37 PM , Rating: 4
Because I have never seen an executive driving a flashy car, your right they are all about what is completely practical and not driven by their image at all.

By callmeroy on 3/17/2008 4:46:24 PM , Rating: 1
I've only been on this site for a month or two now and already figuring out that some regular posters have a specific bias for or against something that just sticks in their crawl so to speak. This pirks guy his seems that he's an Apple fanboy big time and anything slightly off the mark he'll try to jump over you on it. I guess even if I spell apple wrong by mistake I'll gather his attention...let's try it....appple.


Moral of the story (post) -- ignore him, he's hot air.

By Clauzii on 3/17/2008 8:46:56 PM , Rating: 2
Talking of bias there, go for it!

By winterspan on 3/17/2008 9:06:55 PM , Rating: 2
I also notice how many ultra-geek anti-apple fanboys there are, like this idiot above who claims the iPhone is just a nice-looking toy and the people who buy them don't really know what they are purchasing.

I find that funny since the Iphone (and iPod touch) is the most useful and powerful mobile device I have ever used.
1) It has a fast 620mhz ARM11 and 128MB of RAM.
2) It actually runs OpenGL ES, and unlike the HTC crap, it actually has drivers for the graphics chip.
3) It runs OSX with Cocoa and an optimized kernel, and even has libraries from Leopard, like core Animation.

So in fact, its actually much more powerful and useful than the slew of crap devices the industry calls a "smartphone".

This is coming from a long-time Palm OS and Windows mobile user. I've had or used just about every smartphone/mobile device in the last 5 years, including Treos, BlackJack, Dash, HTC TyTn, Touch, Samsung SCHi760, several Nokias, etc.
None of those have had the responsiveness, smooth display, and web functionality of the iPhone/Ipod Touch. I literally can easily SSH into my web server and take care of business, and utilize the whole BSD subsystem of utilities.

With the new SDK, I can only imagine the new utility I'll find in it.

I don't want this to be an Apple advertisement, but god I get sick of the morons on tech sites that can't stop themselves from bitching about anything Apple, even on unrelated topics. WE GET THE FACT THAT YOU DON'T LIKE Apple products, including the iPhone. But quit spreading bullshit about it and quit bringing it up every 5 seconds. jesus....






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