Another reason why I will ALWAYS buy an iPhone.

[Old Mill Tree Care]

Your other points I thought were valid and fair enough but this last one just sounds like you have a rather large chip on your shoulder.

 

Re: chip on the shoulder.

I wonder if there is a very angry soul lurking?

Apple, pubs, smoking, child labour, monopolies.........

 

Time to hug a tree Treenuts. Chill and let the love flow dude.

[Dean Lofthouse]

I can get 5 days out of my battery, quite easily

[TreeNuts]

Treenuts, this battery disaster that you can't let go of is not an issue for me (and everyone I know) because when I get home I plug in the charger. Hey presto!

Shall we start ranting about electricity companies next?!

 

Well, all I can say is that it is for me and others I know, not all, but enough to make it worty of mentioning.

 

Personally, I prefer not to be so reliant on a power source and the action of plugging in to recharge when on the move. If I forget to charge by the morning and there's only half a day's charge left, then I have to find a power source and be without the phone during the charging period, which is more time out of my day compounded with the inconvenience of being out of contact for said period.

 

So perhaps we should just agree to disagee on this point because everyone's experiences and tolerances are different.

[TreeNuts]

Re: chip on the shoulder.

I wonder if there is a very angry soul lurking?

Apple, pubs, smoking, child labour, monopolies.........

 

Time to hug a tree Treenuts. Chill and let the love flow dude.

 

Dude, I'm all about feeling the love

[skyhuck]

We upgraded all our phones a few weeks back, me and two sons went for iPhones, my mrs went for a blackberry, before the 14 days were up we sent back my mrs's blackberry and got her an iPhone too.

 

She was having loads of problems with the blackberry, as soon as she got the iPhone she had no problems and is very happy with it.

[Hodge]

I love apple products and I don't care what people think!! people should get a life instead of getting so worked up slagging apple. after all we have freedom of choice and free speech in this world. What's the big deal?

[Stereo]

I've never pushed my battery to be honest so I don't know how long it would last. The could times I have forgotten to put in on the dock at night, I have used it all the next day and it's still going strong. No idea how long before it finally died.

 

Re. Blackberries. I've spoken to several owners and the reason they chose a Blackberry over an iphone was that it could do email. Er........

[Arran Turner]

The apple Iphone

 

A smarter gadget than its buyers.

 

:thumbup:

[TreeNuts]

I love apple products and I don't care what people think!! people should get a life instead of getting so worked up slagging apple. after all we have freedom of choice and free speech in this world. What's the big deal?

 

I know I'm perpetuating this Apple discussion, which is something I don't like to do, but as I see it, one of the main annoyances with Apple (putting the technical and pricing issues aside) is that the company is everywhere and continue to be invasive.

 

Like so many other unethical companies I could name, they try to associate and attach human emotion to a gadget through arrogant, hardcore advertising, tapping into the consciousness in order to persuade. I know Apple aren't the only ones, but they are the dominant force with one of the biggest budgets to thrust their products in our faces, and nothing, nowhere and no-one is beyond their scope, even kids. Just think of the children yanking on a frustrated, financially strained parents trouser leg because the subtle use of language and imagery on the goggle box has them by their little balls.

 

I think what Apple does is a form of exploitation, although some would disagree because we each have the free will to decide, and especially what we choose to buy.

 

I remember when this were all fields. Grumble grumble

[TreeNuts]

I can get 5 days out of my battery, quite easily

 

If you're talking about an iPhone, then you're the first person I've heard say that. Are you sure you have it switched on?