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2009 Best Phone
Lupin:
Apple can't be wrong you know! ::)
iindigo:
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--- Quote from: iindigo on July 02, 2009, 12:24:08 PM ---Yeah, now that OS 3.0 and the 3GS are out, the iPhone has become quite the contender. It still has a few minor flaws, but they're just that; very minor, and I'm willing to overlook that for access to the 55,000+ iPhone applications on the app store (source).
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55000 apps and like 4 that are useful to most people not counting games
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That's an incredible exaggeration. Take a look at this breakdown:
http://148apps.biz/app-store-metrics/?mpage=catcount
Only 32% of iPhone apps fall under the "Games" and "Entertainment" categories. All remaining applications (68%) fall under the categories of Books, Utilities, Education, Travel, Lifestyle, Reference, Music, Navigation, Productivity, Sports, News, Business, Healthcare & Fitness, Social Networking, Photography, Finance, Medical, Weather, and Strategy, in that order.
In a nutshell: 68% of the ~55,000 iPhone/iPod Touch apps belong to one of a spectrum of different non-game categories. "Nothing but games" is totally bunk.
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reading comprehension ftl! ::)
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The way he worded the sentence wasn't completely clear (for example, one might think he was inferring that games were within the useful portion when reading it).
Besides that, it doesn't make the statement any less bunk. You're looking at around 30,000 programs when not counting games. If most people can't find a few out of that number that they find useful, then holy crap, they must have a really freakin' specific definition of "useful".
--- Quote from: Lupin on July 02, 2009, 05:44:47 PM ---Apple can't be wrong you know! ::)
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They can. I disagree with them on a number of things currently. It's just kind of silly when people start attacking their products with insubstantial statements simply because they don't like the company for some odd reason.
For example, if someone complained about the lack of carrier variety with the iPhone, I'd wholeheartedly agree with them. Basically, if you want to complain, please do so about a real issue.
kyanwan:
I don't like apple, particularly, however the iphone is a very cool phone.
If it were available on != AT&T - I would use it.
If the price were around what a NORMAL phone costs, I would use it.
By the way - I wonder if the iPhone takes a drop to the floor as good as -other phones- do. (doubt it.)
My major beef with the iphone though - is the SDK is Mac-only. That bites, because I prefer to use a computer (rather than a status symbol/fool impress-er/sex toy) to do my development. (BTW: stab.)
I wonder how many mac owners have the sex0r with their mac?
I'm leaning somewhere towards 70-90%.
fohfoh:
iPhone isn't a phone I like. Why? It's a media player that just happens to have a phone function. I personally like a phone as a phone. I don't give a shit for data plans. I don't need to google shit every 20 seconds or send something to FB. IMO the iPhone is a media player and not a phone. It just happens to have a phone function.
It's honestly like the PSP that someone hacked a phone into back in the day. The phone is a side function, the actual thing is just a media player.
iindigo:
With all the apps, it's more like a modern PDA with a phone function. It even shares a LOT with its spiritual grandfather, the Newton Messagepad.
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