Benderoff: iPhone pickiness Sep17 '07
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# (2 of 2): Matthom
3 hours, 57 minutes after the fact. (Mon 17 Sep 2007, 6:46 PM CST)
Good points, Kevin. Yeah, I think people underestimate how much room they actually have. 8 GB is more than it seems. I bought the 4 GB model and I have plenty of room, although I only sync what I can fit into a day's journey.
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I find Eric Benderoff's "10 Things I Hate about the iPhone" to be a bit picky and unreasonable.
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# (1 of 2): Kevin M. Keating » blog.frivolousmotion.com
1 hour, 7 minutes after the fact. (Mon 17 Sep 2007, 3:55 PM CST)
The space issue is one of the things that annoys me most in iPhone (and now, iPod touch) reviews. Cries of "but a movie is 2 GB!" are just idiotic. First, yeah, let's assume that a two-hour movie is 2GB...this means you can fit 3 entire movies on your phone and still have 2GB left for contacts, calendars (which take up zero space), photos and songs. Now, you're starting to get limited in the number of songs you can cram in (200? My sister doesn't even own that many songs!), but the one very important thing that people miss is the fact that if you try to watch three movies, your iPhone will no longer work; that is, the battery will have died. Which means you'll have to charge it. And why wouldn't you have your computer to sync with? You know, your computer with a lot more than 8GB of space (maybe even an external drive or two). Then detractors usually say something about being on a road trip, at which point I try to imagine them driving along the highway, earbuds firmly (or flimsily) in place, one hand on the wheel and one eye on the just-about-ready-to-flicker-off iPhone. That, or making their friend play chauffeur to a silent passenger as they make their way from coast to coast.
Just because a few techno-geeks have a near-fetishistic urge to carry the entire contents of their external-drive-expanded-and-full-of-pirated-booty PCs on a device that fits in ones pocket and runs for weeks with full-screen video and wi-fi and doubles as a modem doesn't mean that this a)is even really possible yet, b) is anywhere near cost-effective, and c)has any amount of mass-market appeal. Yet. Yet. Yet. We digg readers and Google-freaks tend to forget that the "regular people" have very different wants and needs. Patience could be good. Patience that means resisting the urge to buy something that doesn't suit your particular needs just to be able to say that you own it.
The lack of expandability of the storage is one thing, but show me another cellphone that comes with 8 gigs of space and a battery that works well enough to view/play almost all of it.
And fingernails. Wow.
Straw men abound.
(sorry that was so long)