Hey, guess what ! My 4 or 5 years old mobile phone can change themes and ringtones too ! But it could do it out of the box. It doesnt support 3g either. 'been using it everyday for all those years, never replaced the battery, and this baby keeps it up and running for a week. It didnt cost me a few hundred bucks. It was not network locked. ( i mean come on, why BUYING a phone if its network locked ? They should provide it for free, part of a package). I can go on the internet, its faster, can read/send mails. I do not have to press software buttons, meaning that i do not have to constantly clean my hands to read whatever is on the screen. I never tried to install extra software on it, but i know there is some. It does not require any kind of cracking, because, as i said, when i opened the box, i turned it on, and immediately i noticed its function, and guess what i actually found use to it.
OK. so thats my comparison between my good old alctatel and the iphone. Tomorrow, ill compare my Japanese friend's brand new mobile phone and my current laptop. Yes because you see, even though my laptop is quite big, it is probably just as powerful as that fucked stuff they have in Japan. And yes, i am afraid the iphone is not part of the competition. Perhaps we could put it in an arts gallery or a building site (as long as it is opened to bricks).
Dear hackers, i appreciate your work, as obviously, you did a great job in attempting to give functionality to this piece of '''' device, meaning that you didn't completely waste the money you put into it, but please, do low stuff like taking down apple.com, so the smug might dissipate for a while.
HOWTO : get an eco-friendly, cheap, crapware free computer:
Do not buy a computer. You are reading this page, right ? then your current graphics card and processor will handle the rendering of this page just as well tomorrow.
If your computer cannot render this page anymore, obviously, you have been playing with your bios settings, again, and you fucked up big time. Buy the same computer for $20 on ebay. It is called recycling, you know what the performances are - or are not - and what was supported yesterday can only have better support tomorrow.
in the case you bought this second hand computer, remove the windows sticker. Burn it. It is not eco friendly, but just like weed, it makes you feel good, and when you feel good, you think about doing eco-friendly stuff.
If you didnt buy the second hand computer on ebay and you get crapware, then you didnt have to install it nor opened mail from "hot girl in $YOURTOWN" in the first place you moron.
PS: there are a crapware mass destruction tools everywhere. On your favorite distro's install CD, for example. Or, if you like violence, keep a hammer on the table right next to the mouse. If you prefer subtility AND wantto destroy the crapware forever, you can also use magnets:)
My ipod is cooler: There is no screen, no power adapter, and it runs specially-compiled-for-my-brain closed-source software called "sing in your head". the problem is it needs special power supply such as expensive wine and Pink Floyd DRM'ed songs need extra weed to get full quality playback.
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Hey, guess what ! My 4 or 5 years old mobile phone can change themes and ringtones too ! But it could do it out of the box.
It doesnt support 3g either.
'been using it everyday for all those years, never replaced the battery, and this baby keeps it up and running for a week.
It didnt cost me a few hundred bucks.
It was not network locked. ( i mean come on, why BUYING a phone if its network locked ? They should provide it for free, part of a package).
I can go on the internet, its faster, can read/send mails.
I do not have to press software buttons, meaning that i do not have to constantly clean my hands to read whatever is on the screen.
I never tried to install extra software on it, but i know there is some.
It does not require any kind of cracking, because, as i said, when i opened the box, i turned it on, and immediately i noticed its function, and guess what i actually found use to it.
OK. so thats my comparison between my good old alctatel and the iphone.
Tomorrow, ill compare my Japanese friend's brand new mobile phone and my current laptop. Yes because you see, even though my laptop is quite big, it is probably just as powerful as that fucked stuff they have in Japan. And yes, i am afraid the iphone is not part of the competition. Perhaps we could put it in an arts gallery or a building site (as long as it is opened to bricks).
Dear hackers, i appreciate your work, as obviously, you did a great job in attempting to give functionality to this piece of '''' device, meaning that you didn't completely waste the money you put into it, but please, do low stuff like taking down apple.com, so the smug might dissipate for a while.
HOWTO : get an eco-friendly, cheap, crapware free computer: Do not buy a computer. You are reading this page, right ? then your current graphics card and processor will handle the rendering of this page just as well tomorrow. If your computer cannot render this page anymore, obviously, you have been playing with your bios settings, again, and you fucked up big time. Buy the same computer for $20 on ebay. It is called recycling, you know what the performances are - or are not - and what was supported yesterday can only have better support tomorrow. in the case you bought this second hand computer, remove the windows sticker. Burn it. It is not eco friendly, but just like weed, it makes you feel good, and when you feel good, you think about doing eco-friendly stuff. If you didnt buy the second hand computer on ebay and you get crapware, then you didnt have to install it nor opened mail from "hot girl in $YOURTOWN" in the first place you moron. PS: there are a crapware mass destruction tools everywhere. On your favorite distro's install CD, for example. Or, if you like violence, keep a hammer on the table right next to the mouse. If you prefer subtility AND wantto destroy the crapware forever, you can also use magnets :)
My ipod is cooler: There is no screen, no power adapter, and it runs specially-compiled-for-my-brain closed-source software called "sing in your head". the problem is it needs special power supply such as expensive wine and Pink Floyd DRM'ed songs need extra weed to get full quality playback.