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.