The iPhone Haters

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  • Posted By: i_puck @ 07/11/2008 7:51:14 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

  • Posted By: jimstead @ 07/11/2008 4:41:49 PM

    Yes most the features are in lots of other phones. Just like most of the words in Hemingway are in the National Enquirer. It's an irrelevant comment. And speaking of relevance, it no more matters that not everyone wants an iphone than that not everyone wants a Toyota. To each his own.

  • Posted By: nohobohos1 @ 07/11/2008 4:22:50 PM

    Do you really need to run out and buy one of these every year?

    Why not wait a year or to for G4 or whatever...they piecemeal you on all the things it could already have.
    Suckers.

  • Posted By: Nins @ 07/11/2008 10:46:18 AM

    Know why McCain wants to distance himself from former Senator Phil Gramm? It is not just because of Gramm's recent obnoxious remarks calling Americans "a nation of whiners" and that unemployed Americans are in "a mental recession." In fact, those remarks were so obnoxious that I wonder if they were engineered just to provide McCain an excuse for publicly distancing himself from Gramm. This issue is a lot deeper than it looks on the surface.

    When Gramm was a Senator he was chair of the Committee on Banking, and in that capacity he was able to push through the legislation now known as the "Enron Loophole." This loophole allowed US investment banks to bypass the Federal regulations governing futures trading, and is the reason why the investment banks were able to falsely inflate the prices of oil, wheat, corn and other commodities through massive futures trading, causing your costs of gas, heating oil and food to go through the roof.

    Gramm was a member of McCain's campaign team, but now Gramms' name is turning to mud. In addition to the Enron loophole, Gramm pushed through the Gramm-Leach-Biley Act in 1999, which got rid of the laws that seperate banking, insurance and brokerage activities in America. Essentially, this Act did away with all of the good laws written after the Great Depression to protect us from another Wall Street/Banking Industry collapse. That's right, Gramm stripped the system of it's safe guards nine years ago, and guess what? The value of the dollar has nose-dived, Wall Street is highly unstable, and we are in the midst of a recession.

    Now you could say that this is not Gramm's fault, that he didn't know what the outcome of his actions would be. However, it turns out that the same investment banks that benefited from the Enron loophole and from the Gramm Act gave more than a million dollars to Gramm's campaign. Uh oh. A Congressional hearing is going to be convened to investigate this. And McCain wants to have noting to do with Gramm, wants us to forget that Gramm has been a key player on McCain's campaign team. Gramm was McCain's campaign CO-CHAIR and LEADING ECONOMIC ADVISER.

    With Gramm in the driver's seat as his leading economic adviser, now you know why economists and analysts are saying that McCain's economic policy plans are untenable.

    • Posted By: How Goes It @ 07/11/2008 4:00:33 PM

      Whether Gramm is a bum or not -- Nins post is not relevant to the article. Go ahead and be passionate all you want Nins. Just do it in discussion or forum where you are not off topic, as I'm quite sure most or all here, would not care to further discuss the hypocrisies of many if not most politicians -- Barack included. In fact, some of us find respite in a discussion regarding the iPhone or other assorted electronics, which hopefully, is a discussion away from all the bull of politics.

    • Posted By: How Goes It @ 07/11/2008 4:00:06 PM

      Whether Gramm is a bum or not -- Nins post is not relevant to the article. Go ahead and be passionate all you want Nins. Just do it in discussion or forum where you are not off topic, as I'm quite sure most or all here, would not care to further discuss the hypocrisies of many if not most politicians -- Barack included. In fact, some of us find respite in a discussion regarding the iPhone or other assorted electronics, which hopefully, is a discussion away from all the bull of politics.

  • Posted By: Boka @ 07/11/2008 3:01:38 PM

    Just go out and buy one. Sure there will be things that it doesn't have but it's hundred times better than the phone you have in your pocket right now. And there is nothing close to it on the market. In a few years it will replace your computer anyway.

  • Posted By: jack53 @ 07/11/2008 2:12:17 PM

    This would be interesting if it weren't for the fact that Apple rose to its new heights from being an Underdog. A few years back Apple was written off, and Windows went on to rule the world. Now Apple is on a roll and is a newly crowned Technodarling. The Apple hater is not new, he was in the majority five years ago. They are called die-hard Windows users and they are proponents of the status quo. This article doesn't really give any historical perspective to the windows-apple drama, and is a bit of a disappointment because I was hoping for more insight instead of journalistic fluff.

  • Posted By: jack53 @ 07/11/2008 2:12:05 PM

    This would be interesting if it weren't for the fact that Apple rose to its new heights from being an Underdog. A few years back Apple was written off, and Windows went on to rule the world. Now Apple is on a roll and is a newly crowned Technodarling. The Apple hater is not new, he was in the majority five years ago. They are called die-hard Windows users and they are proponents of the status quo. This article doesn't really give any historical perspective to the windows-apple drama, and is a bit of a disappointment because I was hoping for more insight instead of journalistic fluff.

  • Posted By: thrasher32 @ 07/11/2008 12:38:57 PM

    Yep, I'm a hater. Big time. I might like Apple if not for the fact that they charge outrageous prices for underpowered equipment (PC's and laptops), gouge people for ipods, rip people off BIG TIME through iTunes, and totally boned the 6 million original iPhone users with their crappy 2g functionality and pricing/network schemes. People like to badmouth Microsoft, but as bad as MS is, Apple has brought new meaning to the "Fleecing". I'll never EVER give one red cent to Apple.

  • Posted By: jane.simpson.wilson @ 07/11/2008 11:16:02 AM

    I am an IPhone H8tr with no excuses. If I want a computer, I can use my laptop. I just want my phone to be a phone. Besides, if you look at the demo of everyone lining up today to get the latest "first," they all want to be the boy who wins by dying with the most toys. I feel sorry for those who can't resist the latest IPhone. Just think, in six months they will come out with a bigger, better, more bells and whistles version of what they are selling today for half the price. The IPhone junkies are like women who get pregnant the second time and have fortuitously forgotten what a pain it is, literally, how much it costs, and when hard labor come, want to kill someone. IPhone lovers, don't go postal after me with buyers regret six months from now.

  • Posted By: swiskus @ 07/11/2008 9:57:55 AM

    There's a really interesting article today about the new iPhone and its Chinese origins at The Relevant Elephant:

    http://therelevantelephant.com/blog/entry/made_in_china_introduction/

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