Android's Shortcomings Proves Brilliance of iPhone

What an asshole you are, Vic, changing the newsgroup replies are posted
to, yet again....

Subject: Re: Android's Shortcomings Proves Brilliance of iPhone
From: Larry <noone@home.com>
Newsgroups: alt.cellular.t-mobile

4phun <vic.healey@gmail.com> wrote in news:d962737c-a761-4789-8604-
5d628b66ff6f@y38g2000hsy.googlegroups.com:

> he iPhone had shortcomings when it launched, too, but all of those
> (save cut-and-paste and video recording) have been addressed since
> then. It rocks because its software and hardware are optimized for
> each other and for its most important features. Apple kept software
> and hardware in-house and is miles ahead of the market as a result.
>

I could stomach the fanboi shit up to this point. But, alas, let's not
make it a total lie.

The iphone HAS shortcomings SINCE it launched, too, that have never been
corrected, including cut-and-paste, video recording, video and audio
codecs that are standards throughout the industry, except at Apple to
sell more iTunes. These haven't been addressed and a NEW, serious
hardware problem, previously poopooed by the corporation has new
evidence.

These shortcomings include, but are not limited to:

The lack of a USER REPLACEABLE BATTERY, so the user can carry an extra
battery or two that can be easily swapped so the device will run all day
without having to plug it into the wall to keep it from going dead if
heavily used, or even used for its intended purpose without turning
those purposes off.

The lack of USER SWAPPABLE MEMORY CARDS so the user can easily change
music, movies, databases, whatever the user desires by simply unplugging
huge memory cards and plugging in new ones, like Android's G1, at the
flip of a door.

The lack of a QWERTY keyboard in case the user wants to do any kind of
word processing, text entry longer than a line or two, edit documents in
any kind of document format such as pdf, doc, even txt. Editing any
kind of document on iPhone is a long tedious process because you cannot
see what you are typing and what words you are replacing over the one
line on the awful finger keyboard.

The lack of VOICE ACTIVATED DIALING taken for granted on all but the
really cheapest of sellphones carriers give a way for free. No other
premium phone has this omission any more. Hacking the phone to include
it, of course, voiding the warranty and upgrades and locking yourself
out of the company enforced app and itunes stores in the process not
included.

The lack of a RECALL to replace the defective sellphone IC causing poor
connectivity with ATT AND OTHER systems, worldwide.

The lack of free and open software the USER provides, which may threaten
Apple's extra revenue and ATT's lack of providing real bandwidth to its
customers.

The list goes on and on and on and never has been "addressed" as you put
it.