The iPhone in many ways reminds me of the Guess brand of jeans of the late 1980s: all flash, no substance. Back in those days (in the 1980s), I wore Levi's jeans because they did their job which was to (oddly enough) be a pair of durable blue jeans, fit well, and cost a fair price. But, there was another brand of jeans at the time called Guess jeans, about twice the price of Levi's and didn't last as long and weren't as comfortable. Well, people loooooved Guess jeans, wanted to be seen wearing Guess jeans, wore them with the label proudly displayed, and didn't really care that they weren't a good pair of jeans.
My college roommate called up his parents and whined at them to buy him new pairs of Guess jeans, because everybody wore them. "But, dad, I need to have Guess jeans! You don't get it! I neeeeed them!"
See:
Dr. Mac: iPhone not really a good phone
Here's a quote:
That all changed Saturday afternoon when my 1-day old iPhone 3G had a catastrophic failure and froze at the Apple startup screen. I tried every trick in the book to no avail before swallowing my pride and heading to my local Apple Store at The Domain in Austin, TX.
And, see: BusinessWeek: iPhone not really a good phone
Here's another quote:
Complaints over dropped calls and choppy Web connections on Apple's iPhone 3G have sparked a wave of debate in the blogosphere over the root cause of the problems. Two well-placed sources tell BusinessWeek.com the glitches are related to a chip inside Apple's music-playing cell phone.So, the iPhone doesn't have Java ME technology, but I've come to realize from the latest reports that is only one of the many major faults of the iPhone. It's really a mobile phone for vapid and vain people who want to be seen with a designer label, not have a phone that works. Just like Guess jeans in the 1980s. "Yeah, it can't play all the cool Java ME games and run the all the important enterprise Java ME apps, no it's not reliable enough to trust having as your mobile phone when your wife's pregnant, yes it drops a lot of calls much of the time, and yes it crashes and hangs a lot."
"But, it's an iPhone! I neeeed it! I look coooool because I have one."
Gag me with a spoon (popular quote from the 1980s). I'll just keep wearing my Levi's jeans and use my Java ME cell phone (which works, by the way). I'll leave the iPhone for the tragically hip and the hopelessly dialtone-less people of the world. :-)
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