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iPhone 4 Pre-Orders Wreaking Havoc On Apple Store
theappwhisperer was one of a surprisingly large number of people writing in this morning to report that the Apple store is having serious troubles taking pre-orders of the new iPhone 4. People are seeing the error page or just waiting an insanely long time to get pages back. Just imagine trying to do this from an iPhone in a major market!
Oh look, another Apple story designed to drum up attention for Apple who are releasing iProduct from Apple which gives you features that every other device has had for years but this one is an iProduct from Apple which makes it easier to use because there is value in electron-microscope-resolution on a 3" screen from Apple did I mention Apple are releasing a product for which demand is soooo high that Apple's servers are having trouble coping with the demand from Apple customers for HEY, did you know that some Apple products have been stolen before release and that this has nothing to do with Apple because Apple would never encourage that sort of thing mysteriously for a single product in multiple locations around the world especially because Apple is an ethical company at which people are so happy to work for Apple they literally jump for joy, sometimes quite high, or low, depending on how you look at it, anyway Apple is now giving bonuses to these workers for producing Apple products because it turns out that when you're required to live on-site and work 12 hours a day with little prospect for promotion what you want is a bit more money not freedom but paper which can be exchanged for a cardboard cutout of an iProduct because you can't afford the real thing anyway because Apple is an exclusive brand for exclusive people except when it wants to achieve a majority market then suddenly it's great how many people are buying it hey did I mention Apple products are in such demand that you can't actually order from Apple at the moment?
"Filter error: Too much repetition." Now to insert some random words here to bypass the filter, because comments are not articles and clearly require greater editorial oversight to prevent someone saying the same thing too much. You know, that company, the one I can't mention again otherwise I'm quite certain I'll be unable to post this. You know, the company with products in sooo much demand. The fruity one. You know... anyway, let's try again...
When was the last time someone waited in line for a Microsoft product?
15 years ago? Yeah that's about right.
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It's a piece of shit anyway that mostly gets used for crappy ads and annoying interfaces
For a very small value of "mostly".
How many users does Facebook have ? Or YouTube ? Or [InsertVariationOn]Tube ?
Or how about almost all online games sites and casino sites (except the ones that use Java, but Steve has probably decided you can't play with that either).
Really, stop being a wanker yourself, pull your head out Job's ass, and see what "most" people are actually DOING on the internet.
Just because you only want to read your email in Starbucks with your latest iGoldPlatedTurd does not make it any better than anything else available (5 years ago). Sensible people like to CHOOSE what they can do with their mobile device, not to be TOLD.
The measure of the product isn't if some wanker on Slashdot agrees with it, it's how many people buy it
Hmm, so by your measure of a product, people also buy lot's of McDonalds, so it MUST be haute cuisine right ? Volume sold means nothing more than there's a lot of idiots who want to follow the latest trend ... sheeple, nothing more, nothing less.
You're not contributing anything besides being snarky.
And your contribution added what exactly, apart from ad hominem attacks and a bunch of expletives ?
This serves Apple right. I'm so sick of vendors trying to lock us in to property and formats. Why does apple have to activate the phones? Why not just ship the phones like regular to brick and mortar fronts and their apple store and we can pick them up when we want. Why does the phone have to be locked to a specific carrier and why the hell can't i develop my own apps and put them on the phone? I really am disgusted with the way Apple goes about this, and for as much as i love the iphone and it's design i sincerely hope someone comes out and kicks it off the playing field. Apple is an ass. I'm not gonna say they're just as bad as Microsoft. I'm not gonna say that...
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Stop bitching, and buy something else.
Another disciple for the School of Jobs.
You know, the one that had the great UI, touchscreen interface, 200k+ apps, etc
"Great UI" is NOT a feature, it's a matter of opinion. To be honest, it reminds me of the activity center computers that toddlers play with. "Press what you want to play with next. And don't worry about task switching or any confusing stuff like that ... cos there isn't any".
"Touchscreen Interface" ... the first I can remember was a Motorola A780 dating back to 1993 ... so no, Steve did not invent the touchscreen either. He may have stolen the patent from a real phone manufacturer and then decided he didn't want to pay the licence fees, but that's another story.
"200k+ apps" is NOT a feature of the phone, and as 199k of them are tetris clones, I hardly see that is relevant. Just because you can only download your software (within the terms of the warranty) from one place simply makes it seem like you have more choices. The only choice you have is to download from Steve, or NOT to download from Steve.
More than any other phone, it leads customer satisfaction ratings, for the 2nd or 3rd year in a row now.
On every pro-Apple based website, surprise, surprise.
And let's not forget how the iPhone has changed the mobile landscape and taken back a lot of power from the carriers
WHAT ??? AT&T and Apple had an EXCLUSIVE deal for iPhones sold in the US. They gave one carrier ALL the power to the exclusion of the user's choice to use any other carrier. What power did they take back ? None, simply the contract expired.
In summary, how much fucking kool-aid have you drunk today ?
The iPhone is a HSPA GSM phone. Sprint and Verizon are CDMA networks.
You will never see the iPhone on their networks unless they build one specifically for CDMA, doubtful, or if Verizon and/or Sprint build a GSM/HSPA network.
Rogers and Fido had an exclusive with Apple strictly because they were the only GSM providers in Canada. Bell and Telus went out and built a HSPA GSM network and now also carry the iPhone.
Almost all countries in the world, except for the US, South Korea, and parts of Iraq now run GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications: originally from Groupe Spécial Mobile).
GSM HSPA+ is faster than anything available right now, including Sprint's 4G.
HSPA also allows you to talk on the phone while still using data, CDMA does not.
You can bring your phone anywhere in the world and your number follows you, provided it's not one of the 3 mentioned countries.
You do the math, one version for basically the entire world, or 3 for the US (CDMA 4G, CDMA LTE, and GSM HSPA) and one for the rest of the world.