The official iPhone is a waste of money picture thread!

ValiantVenality · Post by **ValiantVenality** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 1:35 am

Ok. If your like me who thinks the iPhone is a waste of money then poste some of your hate pics here. I just recently sold my enV and iPod Touch because I realized theres no reason to have something so expensive, when i can get the same thing for cheaper plus an extra laptop. So now what ive got is an iBook G3, iPod first generation, and a SLVR. How cool is that? Anyways, poste your pictures here!

http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/6155 ... cksec6.jpg

Harshboy · Post by **Harshboy** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 1:24 pm

Best iPod I never bought besides the 2 iPods I have shoved in my desk. I do think the iPhone is a waste of money, but it's not the money thats stopping me from buying it, it's Verzion.

iPod Touch + MotoKrzr is the way I'm going, and I'm halfway there

Post by **bicostp** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 1:55 pm

2 gig 2nd gen iPod Nano + Nokia 2600 + Dell Axim X30 = My equivelant to the iPhone.

The Nano is great because it hold enough music, flash memory is durable, and it's small enough that you don't think twice about grabbing it on the way out the door in the morning. The Nokia 2600 is a good phone that pretty much just calls people, and the Axim surfs the web, does email, runs movies, etc.

There will be more of a point in buying the iPhone and the iPod Touch next year once Apple releases the development kit. Really they should have been a Smartphone and PDA, not just a cell phone and an MP3 player with a thyroid problem. They're a lot more like Palm Pilots and Blackberries than they're marketed as.

And of course everyone completely ignores the poor iPod Classic, where $250 will get you 80 gigs of music space to play with. (An extra $100 doubles the drive space to 160 gigs.)

I think Apple didn't release the kit sooner because maybe good ol' Steve is trying to save face. See, Apple used to make the Newton, a reasonably successful line of (huge) PDAs. When Steve Jobs came back into control in 1998, he dropped the Newton, Performa (bottom-end Macs intended for home users), and Mac clones (they were losing money like crazy). He probably just doesn't want to admit that killing the Newton wasn't the hottest idea.

Dr. KillGood · Post by **Dr. KillGood** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 2:04 pm

I have a CD player and it is better then a Ipoop

Post by **Triton** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 2:34 pm

~80$ zune plus 3$ motorola starTAC(that i might get service for!) = my version of iphone, or
lifebook b2630 +EDGE or other cellular internet card and skype = iphone (222$ laptop 40 dollar card and ~40$ a month STILL cheaper than Iphone! AHAHA)

Post by **Skyone** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 5:29 pm

Dr. KillGood wrote:I have a CD player and it is better then a Ipoop

Good one.

Personally I think the iPhone is a fair contender, not a bad product much at all (hell lot better than the vast majority of other phone, hands down). It's just grossly overpriced as per Apple's strategy with all of their products.

Kurt_ · Post by **Kurt_** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 6:22 pm

I don't have anything that makes sound except for a computer. I own a 256mb mp3 player that crashes whenever you try to move music onto it with the program it came with, and isn't recent enough to be detected by the computer via usb. That's my only portable electronic, and guess where that is?

Valium · Post by **Valium** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 6:33 pm

You could always buy an iFone if you hate the iPhone.

http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/20 ... clone.html

Super Cameraman · Post by **Super Cameraman** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 9:26 pm

bicostp wrote:2 gig 2nd gen iPod Nano + Nokia 2600 + Dell Axim X30 = My equivelant to the iPhone.

Hey, I got an X30, too! (You're probably the guy that told me to get mine!)

This thing is awesome. You can download stuff on it without risking breaking it, and mine only cost $90!! The screen is about the same size (although half the resolution...) and watching movies works perfectly fine on it! (Not that I have any movies on it. Just random YouTube stuff, and my own videos.)

Now all I need is a nice big SD card to put all my song, and... some songs... And I'll be all set!

samus · Post by **samus** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 9:35 pm

kyocera remix KX5
http://www.kyocera-wireless.com/slider-remix-phone/

black zen stone 1gig mp3 player
http://us.creative.com/products/product ... duct=16424

works just fine for me.

Post by **Triton** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 9:36 pm

Personally I think the iPhone is a fair contender, not a bad product much at all (hell lot better than the vast majority of other phone, hands down). It's just grossly overpriced as per Apple's strategy with all of their products.

jk if it was about 2-300$ cheaper i would get one, the ABSOLUTE MOST i would pay for any product of that sort is about 200$, thats aside the fact that a contract cost ~60+ per month

So Many Kinds of Bagels · Tue Nov 20, 2007 1:18 am

I don't hate it, but of course I think it's a waste of money.
I recently realized this; I don't hate Apple's products, I hate how they F*CKING ADVERTISE.

Dr. KillGood · Post by **Dr. KillGood** » Tue Nov 20, 2007 2:51 am

What the "we are better then everything copulate else" bullox? How could you hate a product that says "buy me because I am better then you!"?

Post by **Triton** » Tue Nov 20, 2007 7:29 am

because a product that says "buy me because im better than XXXXXXXXX" is a pretentious overbearing peice of crap versus "buy me i am high quality and people think higly of that" something that speaks for itsself, personally i hate apple, they make decent products but they think that you shold get a new one every year, that you should also pay a 20% premium for their pretentious brand name, and charge you out the ass to fix something when it breaks RIGHT AFTER THE WARRANTY IS UP. im with bagels on this one, apple marketing and their buisness practices are crap

Bibin · Post by **Bibin** » Tue Nov 20, 2007 5:30 pm

Well, their marketing scheme seems to involve insulting
competitors with petty insults that do not make much sense. Their products are good, but their attitude is terrible

on. Errrr... Posted from my new iPod touch.