Rob from SMSTextNews writes about the iPhone:
I used to work for an agency that believed that Macs were better at everything. It would spend a fortune on a Mac and then only use it to do MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and the interweb. It did seem like a waste of money, especially as the company in question wasn’t the best payer out there.
Oh man, when you read this, you know that the article is going to be more fluff than content. Obviously you don’t need a Mac if you’re just using email, a web browser and office productivity applications. I mean why would you want a Mac – aren’t they just the same thing?
No, Rob, they’re not. Even if all I did was use Word and Powerpoint and Excel and Interweb, I’d still want to be doing it on a Mac. Inability to fathom the difference this would make just means that the rest of your post can be easily categorised into “He just doesn’t get it”.
You see, apparently the iPhone is now being adopted by more companies as an all-purpose communications device.
I’m not that surprised that it’s being adopted. Having tried both I think I’d still rather have the CrackBerry 8120 especially as it has WiFi on it. It’s not pretending to be something else.
I have an iPod (two in fact) and so never listen to music on the phone. I have a camera. I have a phone. I don’t really check the web on my phone because it’s rarely that urgent. So, that leaves me with the need for email and, quite simply, Blackberry is perfect for this. Especially as it has keys to easily type one.
Having used both BlackBerry and iPhone within the last two years, I see little evidence to suggest that having keys makes it easier to type. In fact, the presence of keys just seemed to eat up real estate on the device. For someone who wants to carry two iPods, one camera and a phone and who has no need to web browse on the phone, a BlackBerry might make some sense. For me, the availability of my media, the ease of use of email and the web, the flexibility of the App Store, the sheer screen real estate and even the fact it has a camera, albeit a poor one, make the iPhone the convergence device for me. I don’t carry other devices out and about (and when I do, it’s the full gamut of 17″ laptop, solar chargers, maybe even the N800).
I guess “He just doesn’t get it”.
Yeah, isn’t it great when people up front state you can basically skip the rest of the stuff they’ve written?
Oh all the people who brayed at the Mac in 1984. But when Windows came out, suddenly it was “just like the Mac” and GUIs were now OK. Eejits.