Hello I'm Rich Brown and this is my personal website and blog. I'm just your simple, average, down to earth, professional, out gay man and aspiring circuit boy, living in Phoenix, Arizona with a few things to say while trying to find my place among all the scary, conservative, religious nuts in this sick and twisted world.
Saturday, July 12, 2008
Apple iPhone Problems? No, People Love to Complain!
Since the launch of the Apple iPhone 3G yesterday the only articles I've seen coming across the news and various blogs have been slams to Apple, complaints about the roll out and complaints about the iPhone. I've read so many iBrick comments that it's ridiculous. Most of the meat of the articles I've seen have been about overstated issues, inaccurate claims and problems by people who frankly shouldn't even be allowed to operate such a complex device. Are there problems with the iPhone? I guess it depends on who you ask and what you define as a problem. I think the bottom line is that people love to complain. People complain about everything and anything, about what's perceived as missing functionality, what's perceived as not working correctly, and what's perceived as a major problem but really isn't. Let's face it, complaints always make better news.
As an iPhone owner, I know first hand what the iPhone does and does not do and what functionality I would like to see added. Does this make the iPhone flawed because I want more? Absolutely not. In my opinion, the iPhone is quite possibly one of the best devices that I've ever owned, and trust me when I say I've had my fair share. A single device is never going to fully meet everyone's expectations and needs, and I wish people would realize that and stop complaining about what it doesn't do for them, and start talking about what it does do.
I was a previous Treo owner before switching to the iPhone and over the last few months which I've had my iPhone, I've realized it's truly the device I had always wished my Treo was. I use it as a phone, a PDA, a media device to play music while I'm working out, a basic PC replacement for browsing the Internet when I'm away from my desk, reading news & rss feeds, getting directions, checking on weather, monitoring my stocks, and text chatting with friends. Aside from my work and personal computers, I now use my iPhone more then any other device I own or have owned in the past.
I've read so many rumors which are simply not true, and I wonder sometimes if the people writing these articles actually have an iPhone. I was amazed today at one article I was reading where most of the comments to the article were from Blackberry owners who didn't own an iPhone, talking about issues with the iPhone. Yes there are functional and feature differences between the Blackberry, and pretty much every other pda/cellphone on the market, and the iPhone, but I'm sorry if you don't own an iPhone you really aren't aware of all the possibilities. Ask any of the millions of people who now own either the iPhone or iPhone 3G, and ask them their opinion, there has to be a reason it's so popular.
With the release of the iPhone 3G, the iPhone 2.0 software update which added push technology and better device security, the iPhone is now even being globally accepted throughout the business world as a business class device. This mass excitement and adoption of the iPhone world wide has succeeded in provided a universal device and platform for which things can be standardized, something I've been saying was needed for a long time now. Microsoft tried this with Windows Mobile, but they feel disappointingly short in the implementation.
Compared to the problems I had in the past with my Treo devices and Windows Mobile, I've not had any problems in syncing my iPhone to any of my computers, and it works seamlessly with Outlook when it comes to my email, contacts and calender. I've also never had any problems with battery life, phone quality or connectivity, but that's also dependent on a persons physical location.
I've never been an avid Apple fan, that is until I got my iPhone, and honestly in my opinion, while the iPhone doesn't have every feature I would like, I can see past my own selfish desired to recognize that the iPhone/iPhone 3G is hands down the best compact universal device and cell phone on the market today. So please stop talking about what the iPhone doesn't do and instead start talking about what it does do, because trust me, if you don't own one yet, you will, just give it time. Cheers!
*UPDATE* One thing I forgot to mention here is that my friends and I (about 5 of us in different cities) also upgraded our iPhones to the 2.0 software update yesterday at various times throughout the day and all without any problems.
