Study: iPhone “Worst Device Ever”
Based on current trends in Internet rumors and pre-release information, it has become obvious that the iPhone, once thought to be the most innovative and creative high technology device to come down the pike, is in fact the least good thing ever.
“I love the Zune HD!” raved the entire staff of Engadget, in unison. “It’s going to be so much better than that Apple thing! I mean, look! It plays movies! and it has an accelerometer! Sure, it doesn’t do HD radio, which is where it’s name comes from. And yeah, some of the menu items sometime gets cut off the edge of the screen, but how could Microsoft know how big that screen was going to be? Don’t listen to the haters. When Microsoft finally releases it it’ll be the best thing ever ever ever!!!!!1!!”(sic)
Meanwhile, Gizmodo was equally excited about the Palm Pre. “The Pre is going to change the way you communicate with the world around you! It comes with a revolutionary on-screen keyboard! Who woulda thought of putting your keyboard on the screen? It’s just so awesome! And from Palm! There’s a name that’s synonymous with agility and innovation! I mean, look at the Palm OS! Version 5 looks so much different than version 4! They’re hardly even identical! And now they’ve got a brand new OS based on HTML! It’s amazing! Well, I mean, the screenshots are amazing…I haven’t actually seen it yet… at least, not a fully functional model. But still, HTML!”
Meanwhile, the entire Linux world couldn’t shut up about something called “Cupcake” for the Android OS, but every time someone tries to explain it to us we get a headache.
Chris Pirillio got so excited about the onslaught of new devices that he had a little accident.
Clearly, in the face of such giants of innovation like Microsoft and Palm, the iPhone, with it’s billion downloaded apps, a community that is trying to get new apps into the store as quickly as possible, and a stable and profitible company behind it, hasn’t a prayer. Once you add in the enormous pressure that the Android OS is bringing to bear on the beleagured giant, and you can pretty much just kiss your sleek little device goodbye.
Somebody tried to tell the pundits about the possibility of Apple releasing updates to the iPhone at next month’s WWDC, but they were too busy drooling over grainy videos of people using the Pre to notice.
So can somebody explain this HD radio to me?
Love my iPod touche(s),
HD Radio is digital radio, much like TV just went digital. The upside is that you can have three “stations” per frequency, each with better sound than old radio. So where you used to have one pretentious college station (we’ll call it LEO) now you have three, (LEO-1, LEO-2, and LEO-3) each with their own programming and pretentious DJ’s. Usually the three stations are different formats, so one would do classical, one would do jazz, and one would do that terrible indy rock that only gets played on college radio stations. the downside is that you have to buy a more expensive radio receiver, and that you have to deal with three times as many college radio stations. I guess non-college radio stations can use it as well, they just don’t in our market yet.
Oh. Thanks.
Damn! I bought the wrong phone!
It’s galling to find that the device I use every day for dozens of different tasks is actually worthless. And nobody warned me that I was making the worst mistake of my life! I’m so embarrassed …