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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!
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 ?