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Apple Updates iPhone and iPod Touch
u-bend writes "With little publicity Apple has released new, higher-capacity models of the iPhone and iPod Touch. The new iPhone boasts 16 GB of storage and is priced at $499 (the 8 GB model remains at $399), and the new iPod Touch has 32 GB, also priced at $499. Although the price is still pretty hefty, it indicates that the capacity/price ratio on these wireless flash-based players is starting to move in the right direction."
Poor design is the iPhone's problem.
Sure it looks good in Apple marketing.
Sure Jobs cradled it in his hands on stage and proclaimed it the best thing ever.
But the real problem is the iPhone just is a crappy to use phone. It is far too bulky and fragile for everyday use unless you are focused on carefully not damaging it. It looks and feels silly talking into it.
It really is only good for sitting around playing with the screen showing to your friends or hoping someone will notice you using it.
My god are you a fucking loser.
Will you cradle your iPhone in your arms at night?
Will you finally feel 'special' when you have one?
Will you sit around coffee houses desperately using it as visibly as possible hoping someone cute will strike up a conversation with you?
Apple really needs to include a 'L' tatoo, with a perfectly chosen font of course, for the pathetic fucks who buy iPhones to stick on their foreheads.
Every one of my friends who has would never go back to being without it.
I know what you mean... thats why I don't have an iPhone and instead run a WM based phone on a network that actually... works.
Let's face it... the iPhone has a cute browser but in the end it's crippled by being on an anemic network with slow access speeds and system software that (while pretty) was built by people who were stumped by the concept of copy and paste.
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