1. In keeping with Apple's design philosophy, the iPhone has only one button built into its chassis. The rest are virtual.
2. That button is the number 6.
3. It comes with an on-screen keyboard that is too small for all but children to operate.
4. Steve Jobs has been happily married to Bill Gates for the last ten years. The supposed rivalry between their companies is a marketing ploy.
5. It offers only 8GB of memory; the average Internet user's hard disk contains almost twice that in celebrity porn.
6. The built-in battery is non-rechargeable and non-removable. Once dead, it will have to be sent back to Apple to be replaced.
7. The average battery life (idle): 17 hours.
8. The average battery life (running iTunes): 68 minutes.
9. It will only run Apple's OS X, which science has proven to be the worst operating system ever.
10. The built-in web browser supports neither Flash nor Java.
11. The built-in spellcheck and auto-complete only understands American English.
12. The user cannot add new ringtones. Rather, he must select from a list of Steve Jobs quotes.
13. The cellular internet connection runs at a paltry 16kbps. At that speed, it's faster to write your own Internet.
14. To make it 'secure,' Apple is not allowing third-party developers to create programs for the iPhone. No, you will take what Apple gives you, and <i>you will like it</i>. I guess Apple learned its design strategies from <b>Joseph Stalin</b>.
15. Stephen Hawking will not be buying one.
16. Unless you also buy a two-year contract with AT&T, you have just bought a very expensive paperweight.
17. In fact, it is impossible to make the iPhone run on any network but AT&T's.
18. Some reviewers have commented that the iPhone is a sexy machine. Clearly, they have never felt a woman.
19. It is assembled in Taiwanese sweatshops while Apple pockets a 50% markup.
20. Did I mention that Apple is evil?
21. Apple has cut numerous features in order to make the release, including the ability to <i>make phone calls</i>.
22. Also crippled is the virtual keyboard, which lacks both punctuation and capitalization. good job apple way to spread decoherence in the english language lol
23. Early voice recognition was bugged to the point of being unusable: it would misdial all numbers as 1-900-SEXCHAT. The capability has been removed entirely, presumably following complaints.
24. Apple has announced that additional features may be added after release. Thank you, guys, for selling us a product that even you admit isn't finished. Thank you straight to Hell.
25. Besides, how are we supposed to get these updates without an <b>internet connection</b>?
26. Following the Apple pattern, the iPhone is incompatible with <b>Linux</b>.
27. Following the Apple pattern, the iPhone has no games. At all.
28. The screen is 320x480 pixels, a resolution beaten by the Apple II in the <b>1970's</b>.
29. To battle what they perceive as amorality, Apple has removed the 'vibrate' capability.
30. The iPhone costs <b>$600</b>. For that amount, you could save over 200 African families from malaria.
31. You could also buy a separate PDA and dedicated cell phone.
32. Or, if you <i>have to</i> have OS X, an older Apple laptop. And a dedicated cell phone.
33. Let me just say it again: 200 families.
34. It is a well-known fact that hand size is correlated with penile length. Keep this in mind when you want to buy a 3.5 inch phone.
35. All of the promotional videos (including the vaunted feature walkthrough) are <b>computer generated</b>.
36. Chris Tucker was originally set to play the Mac in Apple's TV ads. He was only replaced when Steve Jobs insisted on somebody "whiter."
37. Apple's design once again relies heavily on white with blue and gold tr
Very often those "few dissenters" prove the established majority wrong. I kind of hate it when people say that sort of thing, because it's flat-out wrong. It's the same as saying, "Air travel is unsafe because I recently heard about a plane crash." You're completely ignoring all of the wackos who end up not proving the established majority wrong. Like, for example, modern day faith healers, practitioners of homeopathy, inventors of the prepetual motion machine, spiritualists, etc. The only reason you never hear about them is because bad ideas are usually forgotten.
Point is, statistically, if you disagree with the scientific majority, you are wrong.
Hey, I can explain how the numbers on software piracy got so high:
A license for 3ds Max: $3495
A license for Mathematica: $1880
A license for Photoshop: $649
A license for MatLab: $1000
And so on.
If somebody was to illegally obtain a copy of each of those, they have "over $7000 worth of pirated software," ignoring the fact that nobody, ever, has any excuse for charging over $500 for any piece of software. Seriously. I predict that if a price cap of $500 on all software was imposed, the global pirated software trade would decrease by a factor of 10 (note: the actual number of copies would remain the same, but no longer would the average person have tens of thousands of dollard worth of pirated software).
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The problem with your suggestion is that Powerpoint is designed to be used with a mouse.
1. In keeping with Apple's design philosophy, the iPhone has only one button built into its chassis. The rest are virtual.
2. That button is the number 6.
3. It comes with an on-screen keyboard that is too small for all but children to operate.
4. Steve Jobs has been happily married to Bill Gates for the last ten years. The supposed rivalry between their companies is a marketing ploy.
5. It offers only 8GB of memory; the average Internet user's hard disk contains almost twice that in celebrity porn.
6. The built-in battery is non-rechargeable and non-removable. Once dead, it will have to be sent back to Apple to be replaced.
7. The average battery life (idle): 17 hours.
8. The average battery life (running iTunes): 68 minutes.
9. It will only run Apple's OS X, which science has proven to be the worst operating system ever.
10. The built-in web browser supports neither Flash nor Java.
11. The built-in spellcheck and auto-complete only understands American English.
12. The user cannot add new ringtones. Rather, he must select from a list of Steve Jobs quotes.
13. The cellular internet connection runs at a paltry 16kbps. At that speed, it's faster to write your own Internet.
14. To make it 'secure,' Apple is not allowing third-party developers to create programs for the iPhone. No, you will take what Apple gives you, and <i>you will like it</i>. I guess Apple learned its design strategies from <b>Joseph Stalin</b>.
15. Stephen Hawking will not be buying one.
16. Unless you also buy a two-year contract with AT&T, you have just bought a very expensive paperweight.
17. In fact, it is impossible to make the iPhone run on any network but AT&T's.
18. Some reviewers have commented that the iPhone is a sexy machine. Clearly, they have never felt a woman.
19. It is assembled in Taiwanese sweatshops while Apple pockets a 50% markup.
20. Did I mention that Apple is evil?
21. Apple has cut numerous features in order to make the release, including the ability to <i>make phone calls</i>.
22. Also crippled is the virtual keyboard, which lacks both punctuation and capitalization. good job apple way to spread decoherence in the english language lol
23. Early voice recognition was bugged to the point of being unusable: it would misdial all numbers as 1-900-SEXCHAT. The capability has been removed entirely, presumably following complaints.
24. Apple has announced that additional features may be added after release. Thank you, guys, for selling us a product that even you admit isn't finished. Thank you straight to Hell.
25. Besides, how are we supposed to get these updates without an <b>internet connection</b>?
26. Following the Apple pattern, the iPhone is incompatible with <b>Linux</b>.
27. Following the Apple pattern, the iPhone has no games. At all.
28. The screen is 320x480 pixels, a resolution beaten by the Apple II in the <b>1970's</b>.
29. To battle what they perceive as amorality, Apple has removed the 'vibrate' capability.
30. The iPhone costs <b>$600</b>. For that amount, you could save over 200 African families from malaria.
31. You could also buy a separate PDA and dedicated cell phone.
32. Or, if you <i>have to</i> have OS X, an older Apple laptop. And a dedicated cell phone.
33. Let me just say it again: 200 families.
34. It is a well-known fact that hand size is correlated with penile length. Keep this in mind when you want to buy a 3.5 inch phone.
35. All of the promotional videos (including the vaunted feature walkthrough) are <b>computer generated</b>.
36. Chris Tucker was originally set to play the Mac in Apple's TV ads. He was only replaced when Steve Jobs insisted on somebody "whiter."
37. Apple's design once again relies heavily on white with blue and gold tr
welcome our new people-using-computer-using-people overlords.
Hey, I can explain how the numbers on software piracy got so high:
A license for 3ds Max: $3495A license for Mathematica: $1880
A license for Photoshop: $649
A license for MatLab: $1000
And so on.
If somebody was to illegally obtain a copy of each of those, they have "over $7000 worth of pirated software," ignoring the fact that nobody, ever, has any excuse for charging over $500 for any piece of software. Seriously. I predict that if a price cap of $500 on all software was imposed, the global pirated software trade would decrease by a factor of 10 (note: the actual number of copies would remain the same, but no longer would the average person have tens of thousands of dollard worth of pirated software).
In short, the bastards did it to themselved.