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Originally Posted by SysTaMatIcS

When Apple first launched the iPhone in 2007, it was leaps and bounds ahead of its nearest rivals. But now the handset is a triumph of marketing over functionality. And it’s so ubiquitous it’s not even cool any more.

Here are ten reasons why, whatever is announced at the forthcoming launch, there’s no point buying the iPhone 4G:

1) It’s expensive: Buy the top-of-the-range Blackberry or Android handset and you will still pay a lot less than the extortionate prices Apple charge. If the iPhone weren’t made by Apple, networks would have had to start giving it away on £30 a month tariffs years ago.

The Top Blackberry phone isn't efficient or nice as an iPhone, it's a ridiculous comparison

Originally Posted by SysTaMatIcS

2) It’s anti-technology: When the iPhone launched it was cutting edge – now as other manufacturers announce, for instance, that you can use their phones as shareable wifi hot spots, Apple says no. Not because of some spurious “user experience” argument, but because of economics. When will they learn that it’s customers – supply and demand – that should dictate feature availability?

would you ever use your phone as a sharable wifi hot spot?

Originally Posted by SysTaMatIcS

3) No Flash: The iPhone, the phone that promised to put the web into everybody’s pockets, can’t even show you most of it, because it can’t handle Flash graphics. Google Android can, in the latest version (OS 2.2), and it’s going to be available free on a lot of budget tariffs.

Adobe stopped supporting flash for mobile, Apple did the right thing of not implementing flash in the first place, check this Read Me

Originally Posted by SysTaMatIcS

4) No multitasking: Tried instant messaging on an iPhone? Oh yes, you have to open the app to see if you’ve got a message. Genius. If Apple announces multitasking next it will be an improvement – but there’ll be no apology for the way it’s treated customers in the past, and no guarantee it won’t behave similarly shoddily in the future.

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Originally Posted by SysTaMatIcS

5) Its battery life is terrible: This isn’t a problem unique to Apple, but look at phones by companies such as HTC – multitasking, better cameras, better screens, all draining their batteries far more – and yet the iPhone, with its undemanding technology, still only offers equal performance.

Not Really, Battery Draining is the always problem of Smart Phones

Originally Posted by SysTaMatIcS

6) Developing apps for it is costing you money: The special version of the BBC iPlayer, of Natwest Phone Banking, of Eon’s meter reader – developing all of these came out of money that could have been channelled away from a self-important minority and towards more generally useful ideas.

And you make money out of developing apps, people are making like 1M $ monthly of successful apps

Originally Posted by SysTaMatIcS

7) It comes with offensively bad headphones: Sit next to somebody using the original iPhone or iPod headphones and you can hear everything they can. It’s another example of Apple charging premium prices, but delivering a dressed up, budget product.

That's true, apple original earphones Don't fit into my ears...i like the in-ear earphones

Originally Posted by SysTaMatIcS

8) It’s not very well designed: Use the iPhone as a phone and it’s not got great reception, nor is it particularly comfortable to use for long periods. It’s a computer that happens to have a phone bolted on – jack of two trades, but master of neither.

that's silly, it's the sexiest phone on earth

Originally Posted by SysTaMatIcS

9) It charges for satnav: In an age when Nokia and Google Android provide completely free mapping and satnav facilities, the cheapest way you can turn your overpriced iPhone into a satnav is with a £19.99 app. Bargain.

Got mine for free

Originally Posted by SysTaMatIcS

10) Those iPod docks are holding back better technologies: As every hotel increasingly thinks it should provide iPod docks, the momentum behind this technology is only growing. But if it wasn’t for the iPod and iPhone’s ubiquity, there’d be more wifi radios, more new technologies and a range of different options, competing and driving innovation.

I didn't get the point from this?
And systa, stop posting such Anti-Apple posts that shows how technology retarded are you, i'm surprised how you give expectations for mobile industry when you post such an article, holding a HTC doesn't make you better than a blackberry 7ata, just recall how easy to setup 3G on an iPhone and how frustrating you found it on ur HTC ... and I don't hate HTC