well.. well.. here we go again
not liking the ifone is a result of reviews i have read and a dislike of apple marketing tactics. Just looking at the way the company comes up with 'revolutionary' services nd products nd then shoots itself in the foot is soo damn funny
Steve jobs said that they wouldn't have any 3rd party apps on the ifone. nd now they've released a SDK for it.. they lock the fone nd give it out..Orange in france calmly announces that the model to be sold in france will be unlocked.
They came up with the iTunes store, and said that they were doing the audio companies a service by giving only DRM'd music...
then they go ahead and launch non-drm stuff nd that too at a premium!!
nd to make matters even better, they've slashed rates no so that they are comparable to drm'd music.
The ipods seriously have issues.. the bundled earphones are very bad.. even someone who aint much of an audiophile can make out the difference between the pods earphones nd those that come bundled wid a lot of other players.
iRivers and the new creatives nd the meizu are way ahead when it comes to features such as fm tuner, sound recorder, formats supported nd most importantly sound quality.
Point here being that i am not a apple-antifanboi like you might perceive. I still think that they make some of the most beautiful looking products with really good interfaces(no one currently can do better than apple on that front).
Just that Apple as a company has to try and shrug the crappy elitist image they've got. Coz, decent though their products might be, they just ain't worth the money ur plonking down on them.. coz there are a lot more alternatives available which make a lot more sense..