So I’m not surprised when I hear people (specially americans) telling me how happy they are with their iPhones: they will keep being happy for it until they will have the opportunity of trying a better alternative, and not having to compare it with their old Razr or the crippled versions of phones that american telephone companies keep pushing to the good american folks.
BTW, recently I heard that in the US even Android phones will be crippled so as to loose modem (threading) capacity. Unbeliveable!
Almost like the fact that US citizens that get a subsidized phone must sell their freedom to the phone company for 2YEARS!!!
In 2005,in my country (Denmark) a law has made it illegal to tie people to a phone company for more than 6 month (before it used to be 1year); and guess what?
The price of subsidized phones and laptops has actually decreased, because the companies find it convenient to have the consumers use their networks anyway.
America has taught to us europeans how not to let governements and tyrants cheat us of our freedom, and now, the sad situation of its citizens, is showing us how corporations (or banks and multinationals)can easily take the place of tyrants, kings and dictators, in cheating folks of their freedoms in more subtle (modern?) ways.
Anyway, I guess Im stepping out of the scope of the post…

I agree with both Saad and Giuliano, yes more features are better, *If* they are easily useable. The Moto took endless button pushing to do very little, the iPhone just a few taps to accomplish most of what I need to do.

Plus I’m sure in time the iPhone will have all the features Saad talks about, but of course Apple will dole them out very slowly so that we have to buy a new expensive phone every 12-24 months but for me it’s worth it. What price time saved?

Just as an aside, in 5 yrs time the most advanced cities in the world will be in the Middle East, China, Russia. The pace of development is amazing. 25 yrs ago I traveled a bit in the Middle East and it was beautiful and the people so very friendly but I would never have guessed it would be leading the world someday.

It is a very exciting time to be a young man in the UAE I believe, Mr Rabia! And yes I’m very envious of your 3.5 network!

It is American. The article is not saying hate your Iphones. It is talking about the out-dated Technology behind the product. Frankly all Cell phone technologies in the US is out-dated.

Apple had the opportunity to use AT&T’s 3G network but choose not to. The Iphone not only out-dated in the US, it is out-date everywhere else. The Iphone clones by the Chinese has more features and it is half the price.

Don’t go into a crying mode every time someone criticize your phone.
Point out what you think makes your phone the best. Or you just don’t want to feel bad you over paid for a phone.

“I like good stuff that gives me hope of a better tomorrow and a dream like future”

But that is what the iPhone is, it’s designed around the user to promote data connectivity, increasing the users ability to use data services which are not hidden 3 levels deep in a menu or worse like a mokia (yes i did want to spell it that way).

The other thing it does is has is a simple slick interface and all this using latest features and technology that the user will use. So if a user wants 3G fair enough they will look for another phone but seriously who uses 3G to the extend it was designed for? Not many users, infact there is probably only a few people that do use the internet on their phones but that is increasing, and Apple have shown a new way of incorporating new services that will drive data revenue while not compromising the usability.

You praise other manufacturers for putting in more technology, but if it wasn’t for Apple, how many of them would have started looking into better touchscreen models and trying to out-do Apple with more megapixels? How many of those devices would have even looked at multitouch or haptic feedback? As for the increased megapixels, well what is the point, the lens will still be shockingly bad, i have a Sony Ericsson K850 with 5MP and supposedly has a good lens from the Cybershot range, which is still nothing to write home about, but as long as someone else is using propaganda to promote their product thats fine as long as it’s not the man in charge of Apple.

To conclude you remind me of a baby that has had it’s toys taken from its pram, and lets not even mention your spelling, but again that’s not important right now, as you are really only interested in bringing more attention to your opinionated blog by using apple as a buzz word as well as iPhone,

In future if you are doing an article on Apple would it not be a good idea to at least spell Steve Jobs the correct way, it’s STEVE JOBS NOT JOB.

now i have nothing more to say and i will not be back to this blog again so no need to reply as i am not interested, your opinion is not worth reading again

“Zen” minimalism and a focused feature set are still poorly understood concepts when it comes to personal electronics… But we’re working on that.

BTW, this is my first cell phone EVAR!

So you are saying that fooling the consumer and taking them back 5 years in software and some hardware technology is: “pure, unadulterated user experience”! And why in god’s earth would you think that having adulterated experience is bad? or maybe you are implying that iPhone is for kids?!

Listen, I really believe that you are misunderstanding that article you posted from the NY Times; that article has nothing to do with what I’m trying to say! I’m not saying that people are “not” buying the iPhone; I’m not giving statics and analytics and excel spread sheets! What I’m trying to say in my original post is that Apple is simply fooling the world and making them go to basics when the world is actually in a whole new level of technology and software goodness!

More features is always better and this explains why Apple is going to release their SDK; they need developers to build more software hence more features, and if “more features” is outdated why don’t you buy a phone with nothing special in it, how about a 5 years old NOKIA? less features, suits your taste and mind flow!

Guys, my problem here is not about Apple selling the product or not, it’s about the real deal in this product and why this whole “I want one” thing is popping up everywhere?! I can understand that people are loving the multi-touch screen, but other than that why would anyone buy a mobile phone (it is not a smart phone, never) that has 1/4 of the features that you would get from many other years older phones out there? Don’t tell me because it is better; it is a big marketing scam from Apple to sell something that will take you to basics and make you an illiterate slave hoping for less in this world, which works great for Apple, not so much for the people!