In a previous post about the iphone, I questioned the reasoning behind buying a device that did not serve its primary purpose of enabling communication. It appears now that I am vindicated since my co-worker, much to his chagrin, had to confess that his iphone has crashed and rebooted numerous times due to the instability of the applications. Even BusinessWeek recently reported that the iphone was “more fun than phone” with lots of people reporting problems from activation to application failure to most popular complaint of dropped calls. In that story, one user who was expecting a baby started carrying two phones so that he wouldnt miss the all important call to rush to the hospital.
To me this is all a little ironical since I am actually a fan of Apple products. I used their powerbook for years and have never found another laptop as good (I am pushing my current employers to buy me a mac as well). But I think while the Iphone is a great product, its not a great phone and call me simple, but you wont see me buying one until it actually works well as a phone.
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