I still think its funny that all those iPhone FUD spreaders went off on how the iPhone didn’t have real PUSH e-mail support.

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Archie, I know I have to make allowances for your limited reading (despite writing so copiously) but dont you know that the data that correlated the GPS position to the cellphone tower locations were collected by Google using smartphone users with real GPS using Google maps?

Dont you know this at all? I am really disappointed in you.

Surur

Where’s the gratitude Archie, where’s the thanks?

SururUmmm… your delirious. “Maps” and the My Location feature is technology developed by Google and Apple. I don’t know why you want credit or a thank you.

I believed, or at least wanted to. Turns out I was only partially right to do so, which isn’t enough.

Where’s the gratitude Archie, where’s the thanks?

Surur

Yes, I can probably be seen as an Apple fanboy (and so knowing this, I oblige by referring to myself as such). And yes I am willing to pay their bills. But I do so knowing full well that Apple has the best products for me on a consistent basis — that and having made hundreds of thousands of dollars off of their stock performance over the last four years.

Disclosure aside; I have never had anything on my home machines standing between them and the outside world except for a router. They are just inherently designed to be more secure, plain and simple. I have been able to use the Macs at work and at home with every bit of confidence and next to nothing for upkeep and maintenance. They have proven to be more and more stable with every OS release since 1997. The amount of Mac OS X development now overshadows Windows machines in both quantity and quality.

I do want to interject here by noting that this may sound like I’m lecturing but that is just my lame-*** tone in my writing style, so please read on.

I have been attending or watching or listening to every Apple keynote for the last 14 years. Having seen the presentation last year showing off the iPhone, I knew (and trusted) that the iPhone would perform above and beyond as shown for the keynote. Nobody (at TreoCentral and other Microsoft oriented sites anyway) seemed to believe this to be the case. They didn’t want to believe it anyway.

To continue, I used to hold some loyalty, to a degree anyway, to Treo products. I loved the Handspring Treo 180K and then the Handspring Treo 600 was another huge leap. BUT THEN, Palm bought Handspring; then the Treo 650 was released. I had owned previous Treos so I decided to follow it and make the purchase (with some reluctance and little confidence in Palm preceding the purchase). It was complete ****. I couldn’t take a picture without it crashing. The phone was so incredibly slow. It was ridiculous. I had to wait to dial… even after every key press. It was painful to use. Palm took a good product and made it worse but had the guts to refer to it as an upgrade; less stable, less memory, slower operation. They even took away syncing capabilities AND also made it incompatible with Macs. I returned it after 3 weeks. Had I waited one more day, I would have needed to explain why it was in multiple pieces after having thrown it against the wall.

I got a Blackberry to tied me over until the iPhone’s release – up to September of 2006 anyway. Didn’t like that either.

Anyway, back to Palm. I have no confidence in Palm. I cannot believe that they will ever give us an iPhone class phone to say nothing of “long ago” had they not wasted their last 3 or 4 years.

But to return to my original thought, the reason I am loyal to Apple is because THEY are loyal to their customers. They listen AND they are capable of performing accordingly. That, and they have this incredible ability to surprise by innovating and creating products that we did not realize we should be using. They show us better ways to do stuff. Those with closed minds might refer to this as drinking the kool-aid. Myself, I refer to it as innovative, and in the case of the iPhone, I refer to it as revolutionary.

iPhone is getting the same functionality as the recent Gmaps app, but a few weeks ans umatchef client-side fit snd finish later. Palm and WinMo gotta skate real fast past where the puck is going to be in 2009. (Really, as Apple can get as lazy as anyone without legit competition in innovation).

I suppose if you count the last day of November and the first day of January it would seem like “MONTHS” to you. Though I personally would say one month ago.

So tell me more about this Tilt that is so superior to the iPhone. Yeh, I know the Tilt is twice as thick with only half the battery life, but really…

I know it doesn’t matter that the iPhone’s screen only has twice the resolution and 32 X the memory and that what really matters is that the Tilt uses the tried and true, time-tested USB 1.1 connector to sync. And you know what, screw plain old phone functionality; it doesn’t matter that phone functionality is incredibly user-unfriendly because most hardly use it for that anyway. Screw one-handed ease of use. I too would rather have the larger, yet unwieldy, keyboard that still only allows for half the typing speed of an iPhone. Yes, what really counts in typing is not the speed and accuracy, but the squeaky, creeky, keypress pops you get when pressing the keys is what is truly satisfying. I like the familar desktop paradigmn that comes with the Tilt too – that being the start-up and shut-down times. And all the applications remind me of the good old desktop too. Yup, the applications take just as long to start up too.

I particularly like how they put the speaker on the bottom of the Tilt so that when you set it down next to you, the ringer doesn’t scare you to death — it gets muffled. And the slow response of the screen probably helps save battery life too.

I also like the added touch of AT&T constantly providing the option of partaking in their many little software offerings for only small charges. And the way they break up all the functionality into monthly subscriptions is nice too.

Standard voice services $39.99 a month Voice Mail $1.99 a month SMS $9.99 a month Data Connect $59.99 a month GPS $9.99 a month Detailed billing $1.99 a month

Seriously?

My wife and I have two iPhones with unlimited data for each including more than enough SMS messaging, and superior voice mail service by far, AND detailed billing AND 700 minutes all for 1 flat fee of $89.99 a month. I can’t believe you ragged on the iPhone for being so expensive. This thing is twice as expensive per month and exponentially increases with each month passing.

Oh, and the iPhone’s camera blows away the Tilt’s.