it just encourages them!
Apple iPhone 4 Ping!
If you want on or off the Mac PingList, Freepmail me.
Posted on 07/20/2010 1:09:39 PM PDT by Swordmaker
I’ll say this about you, Swordmaker: You’re balanced. I know you are a huge Mac supporter, but you put the bad right out there with the good, and I appreciate that. The only reason I’m not on the ping list is because it’s too much traffic.
(Posted from my iPhone...lol)
If you want on or off the Mac PingList, Freepmail me.
Apple users have come to expect the product to always work, even if they’re buffoons. That said, I’m typing this on a MacBook Pro. LOL!
I like my apple iPod a lot. I think it’s very well built, durable as hell, and it exceeds my needs so I’m surprised by the bad news surrounding the iphone. I’ll give them a while to work out the bugs and then see about buying one. I have gone forever without a 4G smart phone so I’m sure the wait won’t kill me. I intend to have one eventually and I would prefer it be apple but I’m going to purchase the one that works the best in the end.
The other reason is that the carriers are responsible for support for all other phone brands, not the manufacturers. For Apple AT&T diverts all calls on attenuation to Apple as required by their contract. For HTC, Motorola, Nokia,etc., they will handle the issue in house.
If you bought the Nexus, you got it through Google. Google made users go on line for complaints. Apple is one-stop shopping (except for the AT&T aspect).
Oh, and if I had a Toyota or Lexus with a problem, my first stop is the dealership, not the NHTSA. The NHTSA is about as relevant as calls to the FCC over Smartphone issues.
Apple 3GS dropped calls here is about 1 per 12
Yup, like this guy, real liars, use statistics to obfuscate well.
Incidentally, all those Toyotas with the "acceleration" problems have black boxes in them like air liners... and when they analyzed the digital record, they found that all but one had operator error: the driver had the accelerator pedal pressed instead of the brake pedal during the "uncontrolled" acceleration incidents.
Where is "here?" In New York, the AT&T reported dropped call incidence on all AT&T phones is almost 30%... because of the low number of cell towers and their placement.
In San Francisco, they have a similar problem, but the problem there is NIMBY'D—Not in my backyard you don't. Placing new cell towers is almost impossible. They keep any proposed cell towers tied up in the courts for years.
Apple gadgets are built to smell good, look good and infuse the pride of ownership. Who cares they are not able to exceute their primary function. Except of gen1 IPod, all ipods SOUND like crap, $20 tape walkman sounds better.
However, they are cute pocket clickers for fumbling all the time with a wheel.
Who cares if IPhone has awful sound quality and drops reception, as long as it looks drop dead gorgeous. Who cares Ipad has highly reflective screeen unfit for reading, get finger smudges and can not be hold comfortable for more than 15 minutes when it has a wow factor.
IMHO, Apple should turn to luxury car manufacturing. Proud owners would never complain of poor driveability, as it looks and smells gorgeously on driveway.
IMHO, if someone has a bundle burning a hole in his pocket, he should buy Apple shares, not Apple gadgets.
(Apple computers are different league altoghether)
For the record I have an HTC smartphone and it is absolute rubbish.
which HTC smartphone?
I guess someone’s never been to the HTC support forums. I’ve never had to use support forums for a phone before, but I do quite a bit for HTC. I actually ran out of memory for my apps yesterday, and I don’t have all that many. Sadly, it turns out you need Android 2.2 to save apps on the SD card instead of the minimal internal storage. The chances for an officially supported Android 2.2 on my phone don’t look good in the near future.
I used to lament that the iPhone didn’t support SD cards, but now I understand an advantage to having all your storage in one place.
bump
I was with my daughter yesterday, and we wanted to call my wife. We both whipped out our phones at the same time. I have an HTC Android smart phone and she has one of those texting cell phones (regular phone, but with a sliding keyboard). She had the phone ringing, and not from a speed dial key either, before I had even been able to get to a "call" button to press on my smart phone.
HTC, not great at anything, marginal at everything.
Hit menu button twice to wake up the phone. Hit the green button once to pull up your phone numbers, twice to dial last called number. Takes about a second on an antiquated MT3G.
What am I doing wrong?
I have never had a dropped call. Is it the way I am holding my phone? AT&T giving better service in my rural area?
Still prefer Apple products overall, for their friendly service, in English, and the way they stand behind their products. I will be getting an iPhone 4 someday soon, mostly because I want the new camera.
So many things are wrong with that article it would almost be safe to leave it with Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics.
But here’s a fun statistic....
Toyota KILLED 52 PEOPLE !!
Apple iPhone killed ZERO !!
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.