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The iPhone Haters

Why Apple's latest isn't winning everyone over

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  • Posted By: TimN @ 11/22/2009 11:50:36 AM

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  • Posted By: newsrain @ 11/20/2008 6:27:14 PM

    I'd actually be surprised if everyone liked the iPhone. This is why we have competition and diversity in the mobile market. Granted, there are people who seem to take it just a little too seriously, be it die-hard iPhone lovers or haters.

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  • Posted By: SteveBallmer @ 09/24/2008 8:56:42 AM

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  • Posted By: eMJayy @ 07/13/2008 4:04:27 PM

    It's just idiotic for grown people to behave this way about a phone of all things. As if they've never seen one before. To camp out in line over night just to get your hands on a phone, when there's already at least one in your pocket...pure stupidity....it wasn't as if it was a limited time offer...they'll be selling them next week, next month, next year....But buyers beware - the best time to enter into a binding 2-3 year phone contract isn't when you're all giddy with iMania.

    • Posted By: WeHateMacs @ 07/26/2008 8:19:05 PM

      AND, shows how devoted mac users are, just like star trek fans but nowhere near as cool, NOWHERE NEAR, I can see the line for the shop now, everyone with an ipod, everyone with a macbook air, everyone talking about apple like its the second coming of jesus, I waited 0:00 for my phone, it was about a month after its release, the price had dropped by £100 or so, I got it on a 12 month contract at a rate I like and can afford. I don't get this, its like attack of the clones, all apple is doing is diluting a practically perfect 96% market share with incompatible anomalous systems, I urge everyone to wait until windows 7 and then make up your mind who you want to go with, windows 7 WILL be the best thing you have seen in many many years, if you don't believe me go and look on your utube for bill gates talking about it, I know technically everyone here is talking generally about the phone but really I thought the OS was important too, I also understand that I have diversified my reply to one person to address everyone but guys THIS IS IMPORTANT, not as important as a 3rd world war or anything but try and imagine a future where all pcs looked the same, there was no distinction, by 'switching' you have Steve jobbs as your master and you WILL be his bitch, when you want to buy anything its a call to apple or if you call a 3rd party you are just calling apple through a middle man/men, basically giving your money to jobbs for overpriced locked down consoles basically that are only as good as ONE company defines, with Windows, Linus and UNIX you do not need a UNIX halfbreed messing everything up and diluting a happy market, no longer would you have all of the hardware comapnies we have now, all you would have is ONE company, ONE price, ONE place to call in an emergency, why else would apple lock their patents and trademarks and everything down so tight it makes development by anyone but them practically impossible and worthless.

      I don't want to seam like a bender on this one but having an open 'communist' market is a much better idea, apple wish to own you and turn you into a clone.

      on a slightly more diverse note, apple recently released the iTV, strangely enough there has been an itv in the UK for many many MANY years and apple supprisingly enough didn't seam to give a ***, nice very honest and business-ie of you apple.

      sorry, Dis-engage rant sequence!

      -Wehatemacs dot com
      -Dave

  • Posted By: ThePrairiePrankster @ 07/14/2008 5:15:04 PM

    Why would anyone hate a phone? Some people like vanilla ice cream, some people like strawberry and some people do not like ice cream at all. Ice cream is not inherently bad or good.

    Why would anyone stand in line for hours to buy one? The phone will be available tomorrow, and the next day and the day after that. In fact, it will be an easier and quicker process to buy an iPhone next week than it was yesterday. No one needed to stand in line to buy a iPhone, all those folks demonstrated that their time is worth nothing.

    • Posted By: WeHateMacs @ 07/26/2008 8:05:59 PM

      don't forget cheaper to wait, the iphone has a hefty price tag...and is just a phone

  • Posted By: neutrality @ 07/14/2008 6:17:36 PM

    Well, going negative sometimes wins elections.... Has it every occurred to some of these "haters" that even though Apple products are not the most highly spec'd, not built for gaming, not alot of stuff, but what they do well is that they serve some purposes perfectly. They don't do everything - but not everyone needs everything, in fact I am willing to bet most people only want a few things. Apple has hit on a sweet spot of just what you need and nothing you don't. A large part of it is design and marketing. Before the iPhone I hated my cell phone - it sucked. Now it doesn't suck. That's something.

    • Posted By: WeHateMacs @ 07/26/2008 8:04:30 PM

      the problem is that windows does all of the stuff that OSX does, and OSX is about 50x more expensive, bespoke and pointless, the advances that microsoft have made for us and for everyone in the world is more than they are given credit for, there are more windows hating mac users out there than mac hating windows users and that comed from a rubbish 4% market share, people say that windows is the problem, I say its the 3rd party crap thats floating around

  • Posted By: darryl365 @ 07/11/2008 4:31:00 PM

    Hilarious, the haters really can't stand the fact that Apple has stepped into a market that everyone said they could not possibly compete in, and now they are setting the standard. LMAO. All the haters can keep telling themselves and anyone else that will listen that they don't see what's going on right in front of them.. They can keep their horse and buggies while the rest of the world acknowledges obvious change taking place a drive off in our cars...Hahahaha

    • Posted By: WeHateMacs @ 07/26/2008 7:59:14 PM

      ACTAULLY, NO! its more that we can't stand the fact that apple are ripping off ideas from other companies and calling them their own, SETTING A STANDARD!!! where the *** have you been, there are many more phones being released that are so much better, HTC touch pro, for example. Apple have been in court about the ipod and in recent years about it being a stolen design from creative (which creative won) and load of other sh1t. Jobbs is an arrogant penis, also a mac breeds self satisfied, self gratifying tossers like you, "oh my phone is faaaar superiour to yours, oh l can touch the front and it hypnotizes me by flying loads of imagery at me, aren't I different with my phone that is identical to all of the other iphones ever made, thats the size of a double decker bus that tells me I am full of free thinking hippie ideas and I am so individual groovy and uniqe"...F**K OFF you D*ck, tell me please, why not just use a phone for phoning and a pc or laptop for real stuff, or a smartphone to a degree, but its a handheld device, I don't need to be a sad looser and go on facebook on my sodding phone, or youtube. Tell you what, if you want to waste money why not become a drug addict or an alcoholic.
      get your head out of your *** for a *** minute you prick, also get your facts straight, 'good' argument but fataly flawed by the sad fact that you don't know what you are *** on about, turnip head!

      Love dave from we hate macs dot com

      p.s you are sh*t

  • Posted By: ewstan @ 07/13/2008 3:10:40 PM

    These folks need a life.

  • Posted By: ckraemer @ 07/13/2008 2:38:09 PM

    As someone who recently simplified his life enough that he never needs to turn his (ancient Motorola) cell phone on except to make the occasional emergency call, and who has forgotton his own cell number, which is no problem because he never gives it out, I watch this iPhone craze with complete and smug bewilderment. People are slaves of branding, no matter what the brand.

  • Posted By: kshortSD @ 07/11/2008 12:14:05 PM

    Everyone's complaining about gas prices, but people are lined up to buy the latest toy...and charge it to their credit card probably. Honestly, do you really need this thing?? Are people really so bored that they need high priced toys to entertain themselves? How about saving your money or paying off the debts you already have?

    • Posted By: darryl365 @ 07/11/2008 4:24:42 PM

      Those automobiles don't have reins like every horse that came before them. I mean if you're use to steering with with a leather strap, that steering thing just might be a problem.

      Yeah that Henry Ford is outta his mind if he thinks he can fool all of us into giving up our horses. That dang automobile is going to really cost ya when you add up the cost of petrol and oil and ya just might run over a horse in the road. Yeah that's another problem. Where are we gonna go in these things?
      I don't know about the rest of ya, but I'll be just fine with my horse Thank you!!!

      • Posted By: kshortSD @ 07/11/2008 5:25:46 PM

        I think you're missing my point. When cars were first made available, people didn't buy a new model every year because they wanted to have the latest and greatest. Do you buy a new big screen TV every year because they came out with a better model? Sorry, but I'm only 35 and I think people are stupid for getting into debt for gadgets.

        • Posted By: pinkpanther87413 @ 07/13/2008 1:57:07 PM

          AND I THINK YOUR SMARTER THAN MOST OF US!!!

  • Posted By: pinkpanther87413 @ 07/13/2008 1:54:09 PM

    I get paid for 8 hrs a day Mon-Fri, with all the new tech [ya I'm an old guy] i work 12hrs a day 7 days a week due to mobil phones. Guess I have a ligit reason, not excuse, to hate these things on a whole. No I don't dis new tech on line, or pubilcaly, but for today right now. So there you have it, I'm tired of being EXPLOITED because of new tech. Good for info from home, but not rule your life 24/7!

  • Posted By: jchastn @ 07/13/2008 1:22:56 PM

    Style and ease of use are very high in Apple products in general, and the Iphone specifically. The argument that Apple is finally catching up with tech that has been available in other phones is also valid. The thing I like about the Iphone is that it is a great package of tech, easy use, and style. Complete package. I use both Mac and PC and I love them both. Talk about a lonely group....

  • Posted By: brian.reach @ 07/12/2008 11:55:06 AM

    I'm addicted to my iPhone - shouldn't the way people use it be a good measure of how effective the technology is? People talk about their phones, and I just stare blankly and clutch mine like a little bar of gold. I'm getting the 3G today - and keeping my old one as a souvenir. I love this phone.

  • Posted By: skobru @ 07/11/2008 8:32:30 PM

    People need to just lighten-up on the whole Mac/Pc thing. I mean HATE groups??? I am a mac user and it is just another machine to me that I talk about with humor and never any hate. These people create websites and sit around HATING ??? This is so.... weirdly sick. Therapy has worked wonders for many... they need try it I think. Peace and Love tech folks ;-)

  • Posted By: i_puck @ 07/11/2008 7:54:04 PM

    The long awaited scam Iphone aka IPUCK, let me wait in line 6 hours to stop me at the door and inform me (the next in line) that the remaining phones are reserved. WTF!!!! AT&T put out no reservations at all and this is a stipulation of apple. Does the owner of the AT&T store in Victorville, CA care no!!! they not only refused to sell me one of the phones that they had left, but the manager the spineless worm would not even come out to talk to me. That goes to show you that AT&T in Victorville, CA is only out to make a buck no matter how. They are illegally selling phones to the highest bidder and then holding them until they come in to pick them up.
    Stay away from the crooks at
    AT&T 12602 Amargosa Road
    Victorville, CA 92392
    (760) 843-0048

  • Posted By: i_puck @ 07/11/2008 7:51:50 PM

    The long awaited scam Iphone aka IPUCK, let me wait in line 6 hours to stop me at the door and inform me (the next in line) that the remaining phones are reserved. WTF!!!! AT&T put out no reservations at all and this is a stipulation of apple. Does the owner of the AT&T store in Victorville, CA care no!!! they would not only sell me one of the phones that they had left but the manager the spineless worm would not even come out to talk to me. That goes to show you that AT&T in Victorville, CA is only out to make a buck no matter how. They are illegally selling phones to the highest bidder and then holding them until they come in to pick them up.
    Stay away from the crooks at
    AT&T 12602 Amargosa Road
    Victorville, CA 92392
    (760) 843-0048

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