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Just for your own information...

sync issues:

http://mashable.com/2009/11/09/iphone-windows-7-sync/
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-10330485-263.html
http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/news/comments/intel-responds-on-iphone-sync-issues/
http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/ipod-iphone-software-apps/139937-i-have-mind-boggling-iphone-3g-sync-problem.html
http://www.iphonefaq.org/archives/97665

Random shutdowns/decreased battery life:

http://www.iphonehacks.com/2009/09/iphone-os-31-problems-random-shutdown-poor-battery-life-bricked-iphone-slow-performance.html
http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/09/16/iphone-31-bugs-random-freeze-shut/
http://iphone-chat.org/31-random-shutdown-and-battery-death-iphone-3g-65401/
http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/iphone-therefore-iblog/2009/09/iphone-shutdown.html

As far as overheating/burning/asploading, it isn't a widespread problem...but...well...I'll just let the 103 million results speek for themselves:

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GGLL_enUS354US354&q=iphone+fire

Perhaps you can in your universe, where a press release stating they will allow VoIP over 3G means that apps that do VoIP over 3G are already in their store.

They aren't, you idiot. They aren't getting approved. (Despite several already being approved for wifi, and thus all they need to do is take out the test for that.)

Yes, there is a Plan B.

Its called iTablet or Kindle or Nook, or (insert name of half a dozen wireless reader devices here).

These will be subscription devices, with Apple, Amazon, Barns & Nobel handling the collection and distribution.

All your newspapers, news magazines, delivered silently, updated constantly, searchable, archive-able, and all done over 3g/wifi, and no dead trees.

Just because you can't see it yet, doesn't mean it isn't coming. First Quarter 2010.

http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/10/26/itablet-leak-assumptive-speak-york-times-executive-editor-apple-slate/

You do understand Nokia is the biggest player in the industry right ? They already outsell the iPhone : http://www.theiphoneblog.com/images/stories/2009/08/121423-gartner_smartphone_2q09.png

Downloaded and verified this works. Simple "hello world" programs work, as do things like "poke 53281, 144" to change the screen color, and "SYS 64738" to reset.

Gosh people, learn to use Google ;-)

http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/09/06/quick-app-c64-commodore-64-emulator-iphone-hack-basic/

"If you're dying to get your BASIC on, however, reader Stooovie let us know you can still access it by enabling 'always show full keyboard', starting a game, paging over to the EXTRA keyboard, and then tapping RESET. Boom, dropped into BASIC with a ready-prompt"

Ok, I'll stick with the first point, the rest Google could do if they could do the first, and the first probably makes up at least 80% of the final cost.

Put bluntly, Google cannot provide real-time, turn-by-turn navigation because Google has no licenses from the map providers for providing that kind of service. Period. If Google had to buy those licenses, they would need to negotiate them with all the data providers in turn, and would certainly need to pass the cost on to users.

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The app potential is wasted thanks to their draconian controls.

There are thousands and thousands of apps in the app store. You make it sound like there are none at all.

No, that isn't what s/he said at all... and whoever modded him/her troll only did so because they disagreed. Cowmonaut isn't trolling. Numerous apps have been killed by Apple because they compete with iTMS, or because they aren't G-rated enough, etc. I'm sure the number of apps on that page represent a tiny portion of apps that were killed or never even attempted because of Apple's lame policies. Other's like TomTom were simply aborted because of Apple's extremely lame policies toward developers. Sun was excited and ready to port a Java to the iPhone, but again, thanks to Apple's lame policies, Sun is not allowed to port Java to the iPhone.

Apple's policy is so extremely lame that you have to pay Apple just to write an app for their phone. You can't even write an app for your OWN phone without paying them a fee. You cannot distribute an app without distrubuting it through the app store and paying Apple about the same percentage as the US government's highest tax bracket. Apple's policy was so lame in fact that developers have only recently been allowed to discuss iPhone development with other developers openly and write books on the subject. Apple policy on the iPhone is tremendously, stupendously, colossally lame. If you aren't a developer... and you don't appear to be... there aren't words for you to grok how lame Apple policy truly is.

You make it sound like there are none at all.

No, s/he doesn't. But you seem to be spoiling for it.. so I will. I've been able to send faxes with my N95 since before iPhone 1.0. Can iPhone do that yet? I've been using speaker independent voice dialing since before the first iPhone's debut. Can iPhone do that? I can stream internet radio wirelessly through A2DP into my car stereo with my Nokia. Can iPhone do that? Too bad iPhone developers are hobbled by lame Apple policy. If they weren't, you might be able to do what the competition has been doing now for years. I'm still waiting for Apple to offer me a reason to 'upgrade' my 18 month old, already a generation out of date, phone.

iPhone? Fail.