Posted on 10/23/2017 9:56:10 PM PDT by Swordmaker
This is one more example of you despicably changing the words of others to mislead readers. I said, “one thing that is missing in nearly all the reviews from the time period when the first iPhone was released is any mention of the “multitouch sensor”. I reached this conclusion after going through dozens of reviews from the time period. And I stand by it, even in the first “review” that you used as an example there is no mention.
who insisted that it was nothing unusual for a phone of the period to get a full Internet experience.
My Windows Mobile phone that came out 2 years before your precious iPhone was able to view full internet pages not just wap pages and was also capable of playing flash if you downloaded a capable browser. So I am not sure what point you are trying to make other than unleashing a load of meaningless insults. You apparently have completely lost your ability to make a meaningful point.
by someone who shall go nameless because I am no longer addressing directly.
That just makes me feel so bad coming from someone who said repeatedly that he would not respond on this thread any longer. Somehow I misunderstood what you meant. Obviously this conversation will go on as long as I choose for it to.
You'll get no argument from me on that one.
I have an MP3 player, that also plays movies, and I don't have to keep them on the device, I can move the video to any computer of my choice something you can't do with Apple products. they control the product and it's content, but some people are happy having other people control things for them, I on the other hand feel if I buy it I should be able to do whatever I want with the product and it's content as long as it's legal, on my terms not the ones dictated by Apple.
I also have a “MP4 Player” which I purchased slightly before the iPhone came out which had removable storage and was capable of playing a wide variety of music and video files. It also could play video games and had other features as well. The screen was quite a bit larger than phones of the day. It was some type of Chinese device that had a lot of eccentricities but it was a capable device that was more inexpensive than a name brand “MP3 player”
I was trying to find it so I could post a few pictures of it. I wouldn't claim that it looked like the iPhone or had the iPhone’s build quality, but it was shiny, black, had a 4.3” screen I believe with large icons, was thin and was rectangular with round corners. I bought it simply to have an inexpensive media player and entertainment device with a decent sized screen that would play videos that I downloaded when away from home.
I never did end up using it very much and haven't seen it for years. My wife probably gave it to the Goodwill. But the first iPhone did reminded me of it when it came out. I thought it was funny that Apple appeared to be copying some of the features of devices that the Chinese were releasing to compete with the iPod and those little hand held Nintendo games. It seemed like the worm had turned and legitimate manufacturers were copying the same companies who made nearly exact copies of their devices.
I did not forget to post a link. It was YOUR linked citation in Post 51, which you posted as an excerpt from a "review." I was merely using it to rebut your cherry picked excerpt from it which mischaracterized the thrust of the "review" as completely negative in which the author actually said:
"What I like about the iPhone is that it is BETTER than every other phone I've used and it's actually fun to use and navigate."
If you use something as evidence calling it a "review," it is fair game for the rest of us and call it a review. . . so don't go walking it back and complaining when we use your own evidence to impeach your claims, nor is it necessary to relink your link, hypocrite.
Swordmaker, the “reveiew” in question was a long “stream of consciousness” blog with many valid observations mixed in with some contradictory opinions.
I wanted to let you know that I quickly skimmed through the thread last night to try and get a feel for what the impression what someone who was unfamiliar with the original iPhone would get from it. And I am very satisfied with the overall piece of work that you and I have created.
I do not think that the back and forth supports your view that the first iPhone was the Messiah phone that changed everything. I am happy that I was able to shed some light on its many shortcomings and let people know that there were far more capable devices already available.
I do not think that most would have read much if any of what I wrote, quoted, or linked to without the comic relief of your nasty insults and attempts to mislead the uninformed. I am sure that you have inspired many to actually look a little deeper into the flawed corporate mythology that you subscribe to. Without you, no one would actually even care enough about the limitations of a deeply flawed, obsolete over-hyped device to actually look into it.
It is true that you failed miserably in your attempts here to perpetuate a false corporate mythology, but there will be other threads in other forums where no one will challenge you. So fear not you will be able to continue worshipping your false idols with no interference from me in most cases. I am sorry if I used your deeply misguided faith in the most over-hyped, seriously limited father of an incredibly successful line of phones for my own amusement. I am sorry also that you appear to be very bitter from the experience.
I look forward to your next round of ridiculous suppositions and insults... you simply cannot help yourself... can you?
I did want to add that I can tell from what you wrote here that you secretly must have been very disappointed in your first iPhone at the time. Why else would you replace it just a year later with the iPhone 3G when you obviously still had an expensive contract with AT&T? That must have been an extremely expensive and irritating waste of funds.
I purchased my PPC-6700 in 2005 and did not replace it with one of its progeny the Touch Pro II until 2010 almost 5 years later. So I got nearly 5 years of good use out of my first “smart phone” compared to about a year for your first iPhone. That is extremely sad; I can understand why you write all sorts of contradictory and elaborate constructs to cover this blunder because you are definitely a person who has a difficult time fessing up to his mistakes.
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