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What bugs me about the iPhone is that aside from the specific software and multi-touch screen, I have enjoyed the many benefits of a touch screen, web enabled, media capable (audio and video) all-in-one device for a few years now.
They may not have that Apple sheen, but Windows Mobile based smart phones have been around for quite a long time.
I am shocked to see just how many people don't realize that there is little new on the table since the iPhone launch, and the cost of the iPhones features are limitations of the OS to install new software (web-apps don't count as software, I don't care how you want to dress it up, besides, my WM5 phone can do that too anyway!), as well as poor implementation of some pretty basic messaging capabilities included in your average cell phone.
I can create or edit real Microsoft Word or Excel documents on the bus on my way to work, while talking on the phone or listening to MP3s through my bluetooth headphones. I can play many types of video games, including emulators for Atari, gameboy, and GBA roms. Hell, I even have a little touch-screen based piano app that I use from time to time while I listen to songs to help me pick up bass lines to learn on my way to work!
I also converted a series of Cubase and Pro Tool instructional videos to a compatible format and can brush up on my keyboard shorcuts and other details while in the subway.
I don't think that the iPhone has half the functionality of my year-old smartphone, or the model I owned from the year before for that matter. This is not so much a revolution as it is a shiny new box, which is already more credit than it deserves in my opinion, considering the limitations of the device. I am not an Apple hater at all, nor am I one to encourage the Microsoft camp, I am just surprised at how uninformed the bandwagoners are. Apple could have done so much more considering the technology available in this day and age. They sold their public short and people are eating it up. It really sickens me.
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