AHHH! I'm getting the GRM Beatdown! 
I'm really just pulling you guys' crank here. I don't care one whit what cell phone you use. I'm just talking some smack. That said..here comes the smack talk!
Don't ban me Baxter!
Tim Baxter wrote:
If you think of the iPhone as a cell phone, you don't understand the iPhone at all. The fact that it's a helluva good cell phone is utterly secondary.
It's like seeing an early home computer and thinking "oh, look at the electronic typewriter machine"
But...isn't it what you bought? A cellphone? It's called the iPhone right?
Got ya on the second part. The iPhone is really a handheld computer that works. Much like a Blackberry. In fact, they're both competing handheld computers. They each have a different purpose. The Blackberry is more productivity oriented whereis I perceive the iPhone as being more consumer oriented. The basis for those statments are in the BB's ability to better handle email, contacts, calender, etc. The iPhone is great at allowing users to customize their personal appliance to what they want. iBeer? Got it. iAutoTune? In this very thread. iTunes? Sure. That said every iPhone user I know comes to me with the same stuff. "Hey, check out this cool thing my iPhone can do!" Which is great but it's not typically stuff that I find useful in a business environment or for personal productivity reasons. I'm sure those apps are out there but is the iPhone really that useful or just really, really pretty. That last bit is a personal question we could argue until iSteve iJobs is shaking hands with St. Peter.
..and yeah...cut and paste. Dude. Come on. It's essential. That is patently ridiculous that the iPhone can't cut and paste. It's like having a stereo that can't play FM stations. Sure it'll play cd's and mp3's but no FM?
Tom Heath wrote:
Nobody's saying your phone sucks, but there are a lot of folks who really like their iphone. Enthusiasm, not evangelism.
I appreciate enthusiasm and evangelism in their proper place and quantity. The post that started all this was a bit of fanboism. Read below.
grinch77 wrote:
I am sure some of you have seen this already but for those of you who haven't and for those haters who think the blackberry or Google phone is better...
I'm not a hater. As I said, I can see merit in the iPhone. It's just funny to call "hater" on people because they prefer another product over the iPhone. It's also really, really funny that people get bent out of shape when you point out flaws of anything Apple.
Maybe a way to not draw criticism to the iPhone would've been to say "This cool app was just released for the iPhone." Instead of "Yo Dudez! Blackberries and Google Phones all suck because I can't drink beer out of them, tune my car, play asteroids. I can cut and paste on them but we all know that stuff is for lame squares like the PC guy on iApple iCommercials!"
..and I'm a complete arse because I'm arguing the nerd version of Ford vs. Chevy. (FACE PALM!)
*all these smilies mean I'm really, really trying to not tick anyone off. If you're getting ticked off are you an evangelist or an enthusiast? Religion or preference?
