Reasons not to buy Apple's new iPhone 4G
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1) It’s expensive: Agree
2) It’s anti-technology: no surprise there from Apple.
3) No Flash: Putting a proprietary feature onto a proprietary platform - two wrongs don't make a right. Elsewhere, I read that Flash on Android is slow and a battery hog. It feels that this is less about wanting Flash on the iPhone, and more about a backlash against the iPhone's closed platform per se.
4) No multitasking: Tried multitasking on a Windows Mobile? The phone reduces to a crawl. I looked around Android Apps and noticed quite a few memory and task management utilities - I want to use my phone, and not think about killing apps hogging CPU/RAM in the background.
5) Its battery life is terrible: Possibly because people play with their iPhones throughout the day. Possibly because power consumption is tweaked for performance rather than economy. Possibly because users are accustomed eye-candy interfaces that impose much overhead.
6) Developing apps for it is costing you money: At least when I use that app, it has a high probability of working. My WinMob has these browsers: Opera, Opera 10, Skyfire, IE, Opera Mini, Opera Mini 10, Bolt. Why do I have so many? Because none of them are much good at rendering reliably. I'm by no means a fanboy - much the opposite, I'm quite an Apple Disliker - but I want Things That Work!
7) It comes with offensively bad headphones: Most likely true
8) It’s not very well designed: "It’s a computer that happens to have a phone bolted on" - as are most smartphones now.
9) It charges for satnav: I didn't know this. But I thought Google Maps had turn by turn satnav?
10) Those iPod docks are holding back better technologies: Completely agree. Get rid of that silly connector and use the micro USB connector!
What phone do you have and what will you get next?
Bad headphones? Dealbreaker.