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I like the iphone as well, but yeesh... Did someone shove a reality distortion cattle prod up his gnomish bum?

Since applying the recent update, my iPhone has stopped hanging up whenever I delete lots of email messages, though I was forced to reset the phone to factory settings because I was so bold as to add a ringtone.

Pirillo's been pretty negative of late in his posts, so this outpour of positiveness on the iPhone is pretty impressive.

Some say it's the RDF, others say it's just the Apple ease-of-use, just-works, magic. Whatever it is, people who leave behind, uh, escape from, the other many featured but poorly designed stuff for Apple stuff have high likelihood of getting gushy like him.

This gushiness doesn't happen when they just compare feature lists; they have to try it, and try it with a somewhat open mind. Then look out!

"Apple has nowhere to go with this thing but up...."

True. True.

Between the iPhone and Global Warming I keep wondering is Joseph Goebbles alive and doing PR and we just don't know? Am I just immune to the alien mind control device? Was I the only one not invited to the last Kool Aid party?

I rent a room to a Mac hater. At least he was up until a week ago. He played with my iPhone for about 30 minutes. All he said was, "Cute." I said come on, the difference in the UI and most other phones is like the difference between DOS and the original Mac. He just grunted.

A week later he owns an iPhone and a new 17" MacBook Pro.

It's like invasion of the body snatchers!

DON'T BLINK!!!
THEY'LL TAKE YOUR MUM!

Comparing the iPhone to Barrack Obama? Possibly, depends on what you mean. Statements concerning "flash and substance" come to mind, but taken in context of the article... uh... I have got to arm myself. Someone is taking over your minds!

"Pirillo writes, "Don’t buy it for the hype - TRY it for the hype, but buy it because you’re tired of the shit everybody else keeps shoving into your pocket."

Beautiful. :D

"Apple has nowhere to go with this thing but up"

I think he meant that as a compliment but in his dizzying array of compliments got it backwards. Usually left to describe something crappy.

Can't we all just get along? I don't understand the Apple haters. You'd think they would be mad at the other phone makers that have sold such crap for so long. I am pretty pissed I've spent so much money in the past on such hard to use, crap phones. I guess having a company bring out something so cool just pisses people off because they wish they hadn't bot their current phone. Well, point your anger in the right direction!

I think my Treo 600 is TRYING to get me to buy an iPhone, just so I can put the Treo out of its misery. Lately, using its miserable web browser, I can't look at more than two or three web pages before getting an "out of memory" error. Recently, I took a grand total of seven small photos with the built-in camera, and the memory got so clogged I couldn't even OPEN the browser. I went and purchased a 1GB memory card, but of course the Palm OS can't use it for anything other than media storage.

I used to love the Treo when I first got it, but can't wait to dump it. Only inertia and the $600 price tag is making me wait. (Hoping for a holiday price cut...)

Every time someone plays with my iPhone, they always say, "Wow, it's just like on the commercials." Which I find amazing. People are so accustomed to being sold impossible wonder produces that turn out to be crap, that they're overwhelmingly surprised when a device works as advertised. All I say in response is, "That's Apple." I've sold three iPhones like that, and two MacBooks.

Go, Steve! You da man!

I'm guessing he meant EDGE and not EVDO in his comment. He'd rather have Apple's GUI and EDGE than Windows and 3G, right?

I listed 60 "pros" (and could have gone further) to the iPhone when countering a BS Info Week piece a couple of weeks ago:

Page-hit-generating BS Info Week iPhone article

Flipping for the sake of flipping is also flipping nutty. Why, WHY does this have to be so… addictive?

Is this the same "flipping" as when you flip widgets in Dashboard to change preferences? Man, he needs to get Mac OS X!

The iPod turned us into ear bud toting antisocial misfits.

The iPhone, with it's wonderful connectivity methods, will get us back into the mainstream of human interaction.

Welcome to the social indeed!

No, he meant EVDO. I'd also rather have the iPhone with EVDO. He knows it's the crappy edge system.

'...Every time someone plays with my iPhone, they always say, "Wow, it's just like on the commercials."...'

Unless they're using the Internet on Edge that is. Then it's, "How long does it take to display a web page? Why does my blackberry display the page faster? You sent the e-mail? It's still sending? Really? Is it finished yet?"

I'm sure the next $600 iPhone will fix that, then all of us early adopters can lay out another $600 for a finished product.

Don't set your expectations too high when moving from the Treo to the iPhone. Yes the Treo runs out of memory but consider that I just went to Macnn.com on my iPhone. I waited and waited and waited for it to finish displaying that page (I'm on WiFi with a 15Mb downstream, sitting right next to the Airport Extreme), when I finally gave up because I just want to click on the RSS feed link, I hit the X to stop Safari. Page went blank. Had to start over. This time I waited and waited and waited while Safari attempted to display all the stupid advertisements. Finally it finished and I could scroll around on the page. I touched the RSS feed link for MacNN, Safari crashed and I was taken back to the main iPhone screen.

Totally a Barrack Obama kind of experience IMHO.

"the iPhone to Barack Obama last night"

The iPhone wants to randomly invade Pakistan?

"The iPhone wants to randomly invade Pakistan?"


I know I do. It's been a secret fantasy since I was twelve.

This seems to be a common attitude from typical Apple bashers. They find many reason to not like the iPhone... until they actually try it. Then they find many reason why they were wrong. For every Chris Prillio who actually admitted be was wrong, there are probably ten who will refuse to try an iPhone (or use one "covertly") because they can't bring themselves to publicly say they like an Apple product.

The same attitude exists for Macs and Mac OS X. Even Dvorak decided he liked and could recommend Macs to others, once he actually used an iMac for an extended period.

With iPhone, iPod/iTunes, and Mac, Apple is in from a great ride.

Another have come the light at the end of the tunnel




*An Apple a day keeps Windows away*

"Flipping for the sake of flipping is also flipping nutty. Why, WHY does this have to be so… addictive?"

Heh, heh, heh! Cackle, cackle! Now we've got you right where we want you! Lost in the reality distortion field and at our mercy!

Maybe Pirillo's real problem is a touch of Puritanism: if you're having fun, it must be sinful and wrong. Poor devil!

I did make a few minor corrections and additions to the original post (including the EVDO / EDGE error). Wrote it after pulling a partial all-nighter.

I wonder if he is going to podcast his change of heart on youtube?

I will send him some Camel's Milk!

Lovely dog his got!!! Some Soy sauce will go down well with it!!!!

Pirillo's been pretty negative of late in his posts, so this outpour of positiveness on the iPhone is pretty impressive.

Of late, it took him months to figure out how to use it, too much time on Windows.

He's been complaining about OS X and Applle for years.

I haven't opebed one of newletters in years, wouldn't be surprised if it still hasn't been updated since then either.

Good call!

The thing that really surprised me about the iPhone was the UI for its iPod function. It turns out, that it really is possible to come up with a far better UI than the original iPod had, and to do so without a scroll wheel! So, this really makes me wonder why all the also-rans in the music player business did such a lousy job of it.

-jcr