Comments on: The iPhone: Slouching Towards Costa Mesa http://www.misanthropytoday.com/the-iphone-slouching-towards-costa-mesa/ Because If You Don't Hate Others Nobody Else Will Thu, 18 Mar 2010 08:03:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Skwerl http://www.misanthropytoday.com/the-iphone-slouching-towards-costa-mesa/#comment-137 Skwerl Mon, 03 Dec 2007 18:07:07 +0000 http://216.104.43.74/~misafox6/?p=38#comment-137 i've used macs for most of my life and am usually pretty down with the shit that apple puts out. the iphone is a big fucking exception. i got one the first or second week they were out. i never had a cellphone before (no shit), and i needed a new ipod. but i hated the idea of having two fucking stupid gizmos on me at all times, so i went with the thing that was both. i had heard a lot of hype about how fucking amazing the thing was supposed to be but basically i was just looking for an ipod that could make calls and that's what i got so i don't really regret the purchase. but at the same time, i expected a certain level of usability from apple. they have always been like the experts at making sure the shit they put out does every stupid thing you hope it would do, plus some other things that are extra rad. not so with the iphone... first of all, the mac address book is capable of communicating with a phone via bluetooth to make outgoing calls and field incoming calls. guess what, it works with a whole bunch of phones except for the fucking one that apple made. what's up with that? i saw a demo like a billion years ago where steve jobs was showing this functionality that never appeared. aim: none. what the fuck? sms: you can't delete individual text messages. you can't forward text messages. you can't send messages to multiple people at once. you can't view sms messages with pictures. what the fuckity fuck? every other phone can do this. apps: fail!! you know what apple's solution is to putting handy apps on your iphone? developers: make it a web page. users: go to that web page with safari. how fucking low rent is that?! this wouldn't suck tooo bad if you could add shortcuts to these apps to the desktop. which you can't. and you can't even rearrange the ones that are already there. since when does apple not give you like infinite customization options? fucking lame. for awhile i did the hack that let you install cool apps like aim, pseudo-gps and a nintendo emulator, but apple insists on bricking them and they made the damn phone crash even more than usual so fuck it. ipod: cool. fine. but what the fuck. only 8gb. that's barely enough to cut it. but don't tell everyone that it's the best ipod ever. plus it crashes. i like my mac because it never crashes. the phone, not so much. also, edge network blows chunks. i'm probably going to end up getting a blackberry and a new ipod. and it will suck that i will have two things to carry around rather than one, but whatever. the blackberry can do pretty much everything the iphone can do and more. and there are like a million other phones that you could say the same thing about. iphones don't suck for the reasons most people are saying they do, and they're not cool for most of the reasons the other people are saying they are. but they do kinda suck. or at least they're not $600 worth of cool. i’ve used macs for most of my life and am usually pretty down with the shit that apple puts out.
the iphone is a big fucking exception.
i got one the first or second week they were out. i never had a cellphone before (no shit), and i needed a new ipod. but i hated the idea of having two fucking stupid gizmos on me at all times, so i went with the thing that was both. i had heard a lot of hype about how fucking amazing the thing was supposed to be but basically i was just looking for an ipod that could make calls and that’s what i got so i don’t really regret the purchase.
but at the same time, i expected a certain level of usability from apple. they have always been like the experts at making sure the shit they put out does every stupid thing you hope it would do, plus some other things that are extra rad.
not so with the iphone…

first of all, the mac address book is capable of communicating with a phone via bluetooth to make outgoing calls and field incoming calls. guess what, it works with a whole bunch of phones except for the fucking one that apple made. what’s up with that? i saw a demo like a billion years ago where steve jobs was showing this functionality that never appeared.
aim: none. what the fuck?
sms: you can’t delete individual text messages. you can’t forward text messages. you can’t send messages to multiple people at once. you can’t view sms messages with pictures. what the fuckity fuck? every other phone can do this.
apps: fail!! you know what apple’s solution is to putting handy apps on your iphone? developers: make it a web page. users: go to that web page with safari. how fucking low rent is that?! this wouldn’t suck tooo bad if you could add shortcuts to these apps to the desktop. which you can’t. and you can’t even rearrange the ones that are already there. since when does apple not give you like infinite customization options? fucking lame.
for awhile i did the hack that let you install cool apps like aim, pseudo-gps and a nintendo emulator, but apple insists on bricking them and they made the damn phone crash even more than usual so fuck it.
ipod: cool. fine. but what the fuck. only 8gb. that’s barely enough to cut it. but don’t tell everyone that it’s the best ipod ever.
plus it crashes. i like my mac because it never crashes. the phone, not so much.
also, edge network blows chunks.
i’m probably going to end up getting a blackberry and a new ipod. and it will suck that i will have two things to carry around rather than one, but whatever. the blackberry can do pretty much everything the iphone can do and more. and there are like a million other phones that you could say the same thing about.

iphones don’t suck for the reasons most people are saying they do, and they’re not cool for most of the reasons the other people are saying they are.
but they do kinda suck. or at least they’re not $600 worth of cool.

]]> By: andyfox1979 http://www.misanthropytoday.com/the-iphone-slouching-towards-costa-mesa/#comment-141 andyfox1979 Sat, 28 Jul 2007 09:07:03 +0000 http://216.104.43.74/~misafox6/?p=38#comment-141 Jeremy, Amen. Sir, GOD himself will forgive you for all sins only because you wrote this glorious post. Jeremy, Amen. Sir, GOD himself will forgive you for all sins only because you wrote this glorious post.

]]> By: Jeremy http://www.misanthropytoday.com/the-iphone-slouching-towards-costa-mesa/#comment-143 Jeremy Fri, 27 Jul 2007 00:23:01 +0000 http://216.104.43.74/~misafox6/?p=38#comment-143 My only comment on the iphone is this: We have a responsibility as consumers to determine what is and is not an acceptable selling price for any particular item. If we are willing to pay 600 crispies for a fucking phone, pretty soon all of the cool phones will be 600 crispies. It works like a gas station. Even if Chevron could sell gas for 1 dollar less than the competition, why would they? people will not have a choice but to pay whatever the going rate is. So the bottom line is, if you are willing to pay that much money for a goddamn cellphone, when there are people starving to death on the street, than you are an asshole. You faggoty, overpaid hipsters that actually bought that shit should be ashamed by your gullibility and irresponsible economic actions. You nerds all deserve wedgies of the atomic variety. My only comment on the iphone is this: We have a responsibility as consumers to determine what is and is not an acceptable selling price for any particular item. If we are willing to pay 600 crispies for a fucking phone, pretty soon all of the cool phones will be 600 crispies. It works like a gas station. Even if Chevron could sell gas for 1 dollar less than the competition, why would they? people will not have a choice but to pay whatever the going rate is. So the bottom line is, if you are willing to pay that much money for a goddamn cellphone, when there are people starving to death on the street, than you are an asshole. You faggoty, overpaid hipsters that actually bought that shit should be ashamed by your gullibility and irresponsible economic actions. You nerds all deserve wedgies of the atomic variety.

]]> By: andyfox1979 http://www.misanthropytoday.com/the-iphone-slouching-towards-costa-mesa/#comment-142 andyfox1979 Wed, 25 Jul 2007 02:25:00 +0000 http://216.104.43.74/~misafox6/?p=38#comment-142 minor update: chuch is mostly neutral about his iPhone. It didn't summon the second coming of jesus i'm afraid minor update: chuch is mostly neutral about his iPhone. It didn’t summon the second coming of jesus i’m afraid

]]> By: Willem Dafoe is a Shithead http://www.misanthropytoday.com/the-iphone-slouching-towards-costa-mesa/#comment-140 Willem Dafoe is a Shithead Fri, 29 Jun 2007 13:15:03 +0000 http://216.104.43.74/~misafox6/?p=38#comment-140 http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/978.html Someone drew a picture of you. http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/978.html

Someone drew a picture of you.

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