iPhone Issues
I was in a conversation on Google Buzz about the Nexus One and the iPhone and I stated my opinion on Apple and their overlord authority and my displeasure with it. I figured I'd post it on my blog as well so here it is....
Steve Jobs is a like a drug dealer. He pulls you in with the fancy new toy that you just have to have and before you know it, he's got you by the balls. You want to use that cool new iPod that you bought? You gotta get iTunes to load any music on it. You want iTunes to work on your computer? You gotta install Quicktime. That's all good and dandy until there is an update for iTunes and Apple slips in Bonjour and the Safari browser onto your computer. (Wasn't there an Antitrust suit filed against Microsoft for forcing Internet Explorer on users by packing it in with the Windows operating system?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft)
Now you use iTunes to get music on your fancy new music player and you what do you know, there is the iTunes music store constantly in your face when you open it up. It even has those stupid arrow links to buy music that you already have in your library. Isn't that convenient?
Then Apple comes out with a phone that incorporates the same cool music player that you are so attached to and you grab it up. Now your signed up for 2 years of servitude to His Royal Jobsness.
You're locked into this phone so you figure you want to use it to do some cool customization. Jobs let's you change the background photo but that only shows up when the phone is locked making it pretty much useless. At least they let you move the icons around. Okay fine.... install some third party apps so you can do what you want with it. Well Apple controls that too. You can only install apps that Apple says you can install. Do you want Google Voice? Apple doesn't allow it. You want to use any VOIP software? Can't do it. You want turn by turn navigation on your GPS equipped phone? Pay $10 a month to AT&T for their crappy app or pay $100 for a real navigation app. Google builds turn by turn navigation into the maps app but Apple won't let you do that. They make money off you buying an app for that.
Apple and AT&T set how you can and can't use the phone that you paid for. Would you buy a Dell computer if Dell told you that you can only install software on it that Dell allows? As long as you want an app that makes fart noises, shaking babies, cutting up kittens, drinking beer, making high pitched noises or brandishing a light saber, then there's an app for that. 100,000 apps and most of them are totally useless.
Time to circumvent Apple and AT&T. Jailbreaking! They call it jailbreaking because it's literally getting your phone out from under
the shackles of Apple. Now your phone becomes a powerful machine and allows you to do so much more, that is up until Apple releases an OS update which slaps the cuffs back on your iPhone. Now you're just like the guy in Shawshank Redemption getting butt raped by Apple and AT&T. You wanna watch Hulu on your iPhone? Apple doesn't support flash so if you want to watch that episode of Heroes that you missed last week, you're out of luck. That is unless you are willing to pay Apple and buy it from the iTunes music store.
The whole world is addicted to Apple's toys and now they come out with a new one. It's an iPhone but bigger and with no voice capability. It's useless. It's been done before and failed but it will sell because everyone is sipping on the Apple Kool Aid.
The accessories are a joke. Apple disables accessories left and right. Update your OS and suddenly you'll find that your third party car
charger doesn't work. It's not "Made for iPhone". You have to get "approved" accessories. How does an accessory get approved? The
manufactures has to pay Apple to get approval. Cha-Ching! $$$ More money for Apple.
Don't get me wrong. I love my iPhone. It's a revolutionary product but it could be so much more if only it were my phone and not Apple's
phone. I guess that is what the "i" in iPhone stands for. It's Steve Jobs saying "I" determine what you can and cannot do with "MY" phone. It looks to me like the Nexus One addresses a lot of the issues that I have with the iPhone.
Steve Jobs is a like a drug dealer. He pulls you in with the fancy new toy that you just have to have and before you know it, he's got you by the balls. You want to use that cool new iPod that you bought? You gotta get iTunes to load any music on it. You want iTunes to work on your computer? You gotta install Quicktime. That's all good and dandy until there is an update for iTunes and Apple slips in Bonjour and the Safari browser onto your computer. (Wasn't there an Antitrust suit filed against Microsoft for forcing Internet Explorer on users by packing it in with the Windows operating system?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft)
Now you use iTunes to get music on your fancy new music player and you what do you know, there is the iTunes music store constantly in your face when you open it up. It even has those stupid arrow links to buy music that you already have in your library. Isn't that convenient?
Then Apple comes out with a phone that incorporates the same cool music player that you are so attached to and you grab it up. Now your signed up for 2 years of servitude to His Royal Jobsness.
You're locked into this phone so you figure you want to use it to do some cool customization. Jobs let's you change the background photo but that only shows up when the phone is locked making it pretty much useless. At least they let you move the icons around. Okay fine.... install some third party apps so you can do what you want with it. Well Apple controls that too. You can only install apps that Apple says you can install. Do you want Google Voice? Apple doesn't allow it. You want to use any VOIP software? Can't do it. You want turn by turn navigation on your GPS equipped phone? Pay $10 a month to AT&T for their crappy app or pay $100 for a real navigation app. Google builds turn by turn navigation into the maps app but Apple won't let you do that. They make money off you buying an app for that.
Apple and AT&T set how you can and can't use the phone that you paid for. Would you buy a Dell computer if Dell told you that you can only install software on it that Dell allows? As long as you want an app that makes fart noises, shaking babies, cutting up kittens, drinking beer, making high pitched noises or brandishing a light saber, then there's an app for that. 100,000 apps and most of them are totally useless.
Time to circumvent Apple and AT&T. Jailbreaking! They call it jailbreaking because it's literally getting your phone out from under
the shackles of Apple. Now your phone becomes a powerful machine and allows you to do so much more, that is up until Apple releases an OS update which slaps the cuffs back on your iPhone. Now you're just like the guy in Shawshank Redemption getting butt raped by Apple and AT&T. You wanna watch Hulu on your iPhone? Apple doesn't support flash so if you want to watch that episode of Heroes that you missed last week, you're out of luck. That is unless you are willing to pay Apple and buy it from the iTunes music store.
The whole world is addicted to Apple's toys and now they come out with a new one. It's an iPhone but bigger and with no voice capability. It's useless. It's been done before and failed but it will sell because everyone is sipping on the Apple Kool Aid.
The accessories are a joke. Apple disables accessories left and right. Update your OS and suddenly you'll find that your third party car
charger doesn't work. It's not "Made for iPhone". You have to get "approved" accessories. How does an accessory get approved? The
manufactures has to pay Apple to get approval. Cha-Ching! $$$ More money for Apple.
Don't get me wrong. I love my iPhone. It's a revolutionary product but it could be so much more if only it were my phone and not Apple's
phone. I guess that is what the "i" in iPhone stands for. It's Steve Jobs saying "I" determine what you can and cannot do with "MY" phone. It looks to me like the Nexus One addresses a lot of the issues that I have with the iPhone.
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