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[Grassy Knoll]

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[pinboy3niner]

1. Or is it iPhone iHaters?

iDon't know.

[GObamaGO]

2. Sorry, I love my Android phone

Not a big fan of the iThings.

[RiffRandell]

15. I fried my Droid at the pool and it was replaced with an iPhone.

As soon as I can upgrade, I'm going back to a Droid.

[Ron Obvious]

3. Bizarrre...

Bizarre, for several reasons. For one thing Edison didn't invent the light bulb. For another, there's nothing revolutionary about the iPhone.

[tkmorris]

4. No, I don't remember that

How old are you anyway?

Do you remember when Pet Rocks (Beanie Babies, Furbies, Cabbage Patch Kids, Teddy Ruxpin, etc) were all the rage and everyone had to have one only to eventually realize that they only had to have because OTHER people had one and they were measuring their self worth by whether they possessed an object that was never worth what they paid for it and was, in the end, a fad?

Yeah, iPhones are like that. Moderately more useful, but faddish in the extreme. There are currently at least a half dozen Android phones that are superior to Apple's latest offering. iPhones aren't bad mind you; I'm no hater, but they are in NO way worth the adulation the fanbois bestow upon them. Nor the price paid for them. If you want to pay a premium to solidify your "cool kids" cred, be my guest, but if you want the best mobile device for your money on the market you might want to have a look at Samsungs. Or perhaps Huawei. Even LG is building a solid lineup.

[leeroysphitz]

13. xD

[Egalitarian Thug]

49. LOL! Exactly.

I briefly knew the Teddy Ruxpin guy when I lived in Atlanta, pretty nice fellow 20 years ago.

[Skittles]

5. no it isn't

nice try though

[defacto7]

6. Uh.... no..

[XRubicon]

7. I like my windows 8 phone.

Nokia Lumia 920 - great camera.
I do hate iPhones...

[ProdigalJunkMail]

8. wow... talk about your religious conversions

The iAnything Apple zealotry is becoming more annoying than any religion.

sP

[JHB]

9. "Did we give up when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?"

"Forget it, he's rolling."

[HappyMe]

10. No, it's not.

[actslikeacarrot]

11. I had an Iphone for 6 months...

...it sucked in the one funtion I needed it to have...the phone part. Apps were awesome though. I'm sure it has gotten better, as I had a first gen iphone, but the whole "once bitten twice shy" thing keeps me from getting one again. I'm in no way hating on apple, I think the ipod is a great device and I own two of them.

[Logical]

12. Lol, typical apple cult member. Hit and run poster.

[stevenleser]

14. If you had said "Smartphone" haters, I think you would have gotten more support.

By limiting your suggestion to "iPhone" you just look like a fanboi/fangirl

[WinkyDink]

31. Not from me.

[stevenleser]

63. Not from me either. But I can marginally understand that viewpoint and it isnt brand worship. nt

[hobbit709]

16. The purpose of a phone is to make and receive calls.

When an iPOS does that as well and as cheaply as my Tracfone I might think about getting one.

[nolabels]

19. I look at it as asset, a phone is just part of it.

I have 4s 64g it has plenty of storage, can port the internet okay, can play videos, calculator, instant access to my 513 music albums, takes messages, access to most any radio station, has cool mapping, has a clock and calendar that is never wrong and can take and store short videos and pictures on the fly.

I had another nokia smart phone about three years prior, it sucked and seemed it could hardly half of the Iphone can do and cost almost as much. I paid off the contract to verizon, quit it and did without a cell phone for few years. The Nokia seemed like too much money for not as much value.

What i like most about the Iphone is seems bullet proof, has good support and lots of tweaking with software updates that have seemed to make work better all the time

[hobbit709]

21. I don't need any of the other crap and my eyes ain't good enough for that little screen.

i keep all my music on a 64Gb flash drive and the stereo in my truck has a USB port. I can calculate in my head about as fast as you can push the buttons. I don't worry about "Death by GPS" When I walk out the door, I don't want to be bothered, 90% of the time I don't even have my phone turned on. And it only costs me about $8/mo.

And I don't get so distracted by what I'm doing on the phone that I step out in front of traffic. Which I have seen more than once.

[nolabels]

25. I had the music on the flash drives but the load and access is not as fast

I am not saying the Iphone is the best at anything but that is one thing i think is cool is how it displays all the music with the artwork of the albums and you can scroll through it really fast. I just had issue with mine recently. I am not really a techno geek so much but i couldn't figure out why it wouldn't ring when people called me. I mostly only make outgoing calls with it. I turn out the switch on the top left is kind of like an ordinary switch up and down that turns off the ringer (i guess it's fast that way).

Yea if i had lots of time i would geek around with it but like you said the screen is small, my fingers are too large and my eyesight is not that great. I do most of the tweaking and input to it from the desktop. I don't really fuss with it much or get distracted. It has shuffle with the music which seems cool. when on shuffle it will play some obscure stuff and lot of good stuff. I think its got some kind of formula that works on shuffle so it's interesting. I play it at work at a moderate level and most everybody likes it because i have all kinds of music on it so it shuffles well.

[OnionPatch]

29. I reluctantly traded my tracfone six months ago for an iPhone

And my only thought was "Why didn't I do this sooner?"

[sibelian]

17. I still hate them.

Bring me hammers! Let me smash them!

And I hate you for hating me for hating them. And I hate myself for hating you for hating me for hating them. And I hate you for making me hate myself for hating you for hating them. And I hate this thread. And I hate wasps.

Has anyone got any spare hate? I'm running out...

Fuck it I'll just buy one then, OK?!?!?! After that will you leave me ALONE??? You've got what you wanted. Are you HAPPY NOW? Are you HAPPY?

[XRubicon]

46. lol

[tarheelsunc]

18. This is more like comparing two different colors of candles than a candle and a lightbulb. eom

[RobinA]

20. Really

I never get this phonehate. I have an iPhone. I have an iPhone because it was the first (and only) smart phone I ever picked up and I had to have it. It works for me as a phone and as a minicomputer. I like it. Some of my friends have Androids and some have iPhones. I usually don't know what they have and most of them don't know what I have. So much for being cool. It's a peice of electronics for god's sake. How and why would someone "hate" a phone?

[union_maid]

22. Oh, let's argue about this!

But first, let's argue about whether we prefer Internet Explorer or Netscape 2!

[cherokeeprogressive]

23. Not an iFraud hater... just an SIII lover...

[edhopper]

24. Actually there was

general acceptance of electric lighting. It just took a while for the infrastructure to be in place.

[CBGLuthier]

26. OMG you still believe Edison INVENTED the light bulb?

Yeah and Jobs invented the computer too, right?

[HappyMe]

27. That's because there's

no app for either of those things.

[DetlefK]

28. How dare you, Sir! Lovelace, Zuse and Turing were nothing compared to Steve Jobs!

[Myrina]

33. +100

n/t

[bobclark86]

64. I bet he thinks...

Jobs actually had technical aptitude . HAHAHA! (Ask Woz about their time at Atari...)

This weekend, I watched the Star Trek episode "Space Seed," and all I could think about when Khan was manipulating Lt. McGivers was "Wow, this is how Steve Jobs must have felt..."

Apple is a cult that makes the Leica rangefinder crowd look like the liberal Catholics...

[WinkyDink]

30. Uh, no, Einstein, it isn't. Why not? Because we have A DIFFERENT PERFECTLY FINE telephone to use.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

32. Looks like someone is really anxious about the Samsung Galaxy series

[randome]

39. I'm on the horns of a dilemma!

I need to upgrade. Do I get the GS3 or wait a month for the GS4? GS4 sounds cool with the gesture software built in.

[RedstDem]

52. If I were in your shoes

GS3 without a doubt.

[Skidmore]

34. It's posts like this which make me fantasize that

Klaatu and Gort show up and put an end to this madness.

[Marrah_G]

35. I like light bulbs and candles

[dipsydoodle]

36. I like

my fixed home phone and pencil.

[darkangel218]

37. Omg, are you serious???

Android phones are 1000% better than the Icrap! I know cuz I use an Icrap 4s for work, what a joke that thing is!

[Orrex]

38. I remember when Steve Jobs electrocuted and elephant

Got to love that AC power!

[Apophis]

40. The most recent iPhone is has a dual-core processor.

and retina display. Whoop-dee-doo.

The latest Android phone are at least quad-core (the Galaxy S4 is an octo-core) and 1080p HD displays.

If you want innovation, Apple doesn't offer that anymore. Samsung is innovative. I'm typing this on a Galaxy Note 2 . This phone blows the IPhone 5 out of the water.

[RedstDem]

41. no more apple for this guy

I learned my lessons after giving apple a whole lotta money.
they got all they're getting from me.

hello Samsung.

[baldguy]

42. It's not a "lightbulb vs. candle" kind of thing.

It's a "lightbulb vs. another lightbulb which can do all of the same things and more, do them first, do them better, at a lower price and without all the arrogant stupidity" kind of thing.

If Edison were in this business, he wouldn't be working for Apple.

[JustAnotherGen]

43. No

JUST because someone opts for Android or Windows does not mean that one hates Apple.


Question - Remember what happens when there is zero competition in the marketplace?

If everyone ONLY owns an iphone - or if Apple gets a monopoly on handsets - then what next?


Apple lovers NEED those of us that select less expensive devices and those of us that don't have a need or a desire for itunes and such. You need us to make sure Apple gets to continue doing business as usual - but with competition in the marketplace.

[RobinA]

55. What Next?

Microsoft.

[PasadenaTrudy]

44. Who cares?

You want an iPhone, get one. You want a Android, get one. To each his/her own. Do people really have nothing better to do than argue about smart phones? Jeez.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

50. Totally

It's a phone, not a political system.

Get what works for you and what you like. Period. And don't feel you have to justify it to anybody.

[RobinA]

58. On DU

everything has become a political system. Where you shop, what you eat, where you get your dog, what car you drive...

[PasadenaTrudy]

61. Seems that way

The boys like to have their pissing contests

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

57. Agreed.

Great quote here from a dedicated Mac columnist (who just converted from iPhone to Android, actually)

"If you give half a damn about which multi-billion-dollar corporation “wins” a totally made-up contest, then you need to drop acid and spend some time in an ashram."

-Andy Ihnatko: noted author, columnist at The Chicago Sun Times and Macworld

[Soundman]

45. Recently bought a Samsung galaxy what a pos.

Give me an iPhone any day. The android os is trash plain and simple. Battery life is crap. Phone is buggy and reminds of my youth. When I was a kid samsung made cheap crappy electronics. 35 years later they are still making cheap crappy electronics. And the navigation, well google regularly gives me wrong directions or can't find my destination. Give me a break, if apple put out such a big piece of shit they would never hear the end of it. This my 4th and last android phone. Pure junk. Not too mention how unregulated the apps are. I recently downloaded the apple app for a popular free poker game. I then downloaded the google play version, what a joke. The google version nothing but an endless supply of spam, the apple version is nothing but poker. Coming from a die hard pc guy praises for apple have been rare. But the longer I use apple products the more I love them.

[darkangel218]

47. -1000

[Apophis]

59. How did Apple maps work out for your navigational needs?

You have no idea what you're talking about when it comes to Android phones.

[MurrayDelph]

48. I have a very basic reason for not having an iPhone

I drive a lot. If my car breaks down on a two-lane highway, and I pull out my iPhone, only to discover that the battery's dead, I'm boned. If I pull out my Android and discover the battery's dead, I pop the back, put in the spare battery that fits easily in my pocket, and call AAA.

[RedstDem]

53. that's a good point

take that crapple lovers!

[bowens43]

51. No its not like that its like..

there's a major disaster, someone drives in a truck load of what they claim to be water in bottles and then charges 10 dollars a bottle. But they wont actually tell you what is in the bottle and they make make very sure that when its empty you cant refill it , they make you buy another one.......it's more like that

[Tommy_Carcetti]

54. Yeah, the Iphone's no lightbulb. Sorry about that.

And for full disclosure, I do actuallyown an Iphone. Which I use. To make phone calls (and the occasional text and pictures). And that's about it.

Never understood the hype surrounding them.

[Gin]

56. Only reason I dont have an iphone is

I dont want the monthly bill......

I have a prepaid phone.

[AgingAmerican]

60. Corporate identity

sucks

[LanternWaste]

62. I'd imagine that a person who hates a phone is almost as absurd,

I'd imagine that a person who hate a phone for its own sake is almost as absurd as are those who love a phone for its own sake.

That being said, enjoy being in love... with a phone.

[Rex]

65. No. I don't think that is true.

I bet people could not WAIT to get the latest upgrade in electricity!