Why I WON’T be buying an IPhone!

I’m tired people, tired of the constant attempts by ‘big business’ to strong arm people into wanting a product simply because they can’t actually buy it when it launches.  I’ll admit that I am an Apple afficianado, I love my Mac, have four IPods and seriously considered getting the logo tattoo’d on my bum for a time but now, now I’m just annoyed and disgusted.

On the day of launch the online store was sold out, all O2 shops had like 30 phones with about 80 people queuing outside and if you were chosen person enough to get one, ITunes shut down, the one program essential to get the IPhone running and it croaks due to ’server overload’.  I don’t imagine there were too many IPhones actually trying to sync up in the first place due to the shortage of supply but there you go, sweet move.

I’ll bet the vultures are really circling the ebay carcass right about now and I’m sorry but if you can afford to shell out £1000 for an item that in about five months will cost £100 then you are too damn stupid to have that much money!

As for me, I’m exhausted, between the Wii hunt and the IPod Touch search I’m done being frustrated and annoyed with not being able to get what when I want it so I got something else, a 5 Megapixel Camera Phone with 3G, slapping the IPhone’s scrawny 2 Megapixel offering, has bluetooth (which the IPhone doesn’t).  Getting it on Monday.  I MIGHT get an IPhone next year as a contract upgrade, IF the camera improves and I don’t feel that Jobs is still deliberately crippling his product to squeeze more money from those wanting a slightly better phone than they already have.

~ by anhara on July 13, 2008.