iPhone – Why Do You Have to be a Douche?
Posted by Stephen on
February 11, 2009
Sorry about the lack of updates, but I’ve been busy with Futurelooks and all the work that CES 2009 has caused. I’m not complaining. It’s definitely a good thing to be busy, especially when a lot of people are worried about their jobs.
I have to say that I do become more and more happy with my Blackberry as each day goes by. The real QWERTY keyboard is great and I’m not messing with trying to Jailbreak it (after every software update bricks it) to give it features that a cutting edge smartphone should have in the first place like “cut and paste”. Instead of mucking with useless apps, I’m getting stuff done, usually before I even get out of bed in the morning. It just does what it’s supposed to do without complaint.
Of course I’ve been surfing the Interwebs for even more things I can do with the Blackberry BOLD and have come across some pretty cool sites like CrackBerry.com. While perusing the site, I came across this video that absolutely cracked me up. I’m sorry iPhone Gary, but this is just too funny…
For the record, iPhone Gary is NOT a douche like the gadget he worships. In fact, he’s a very cool guy and friend. However, he is one of those guys that shows us a whole lot of useless iPhone apps all the time. I would love to see him come up with some useful apps to show off at upcoming Dot Com Pho’s, like an “iPhone Is Useful Dot See Eh” segment. Just leave the useless apps for John Chow to go with his Fart Apps, Beer Apps and the even more useless Twitter Shout Outs.
Bahahaha. John’s twitter shout outs are SO useless. Does anyone actually watch the video and go ‘hmm, I should type all these out and visit them!’?
Otherwise, I love College Humor – and the iPhone is super douchey, but I still love mine. I used a CrackBerry the other day and couldn’t get the keys down, I type so much faster with the iPhone.
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Oh, and nothing beats the app store.
Suck it.
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Yes, the BB doesn’t have an App Store yet, even though there are tons of apps out there for it that people don’t know about. That will change in March, but it will take some time for it to hit critical mass.
The desktop software for OSX might hit around that time, but who knows. RIM desperately needs it.
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LOL! Hilarious, thanks for that one.
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I love my iPhone. I don’t have useless apps nor do I even bother trying them out. All apps I have are productivity apps I use on a regular basis.
I also have a blackberry curve 8330 which work pays for. I don’t like how the keyboard buttons are small, but I couldn’t live without it being QUERTY so I am glad about that.
I do think it’s dumb how my iPhone camera sucks and doesn’t natively take video. Cut and Paste would be nice, but I havent had a use for it yet on my iPhone or my blackberry.
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I use cut and paste quite a bit actually. It’s absolutely essential for me. Used it in WinMo too. As for the QWERTY, I’ve actually been forcing myself to touch type with it so I’m slower than I should be ATM. It’s going kind of slow, but 50-60WPM is achievable apparently. It’s feeling like keyboarding class all over again, but then I could type looking at you, like I’m paying attention soon
If the iPhone got everything right, I’d consider it again. I hate paying for something that has a lack of standard features. It’s like going into a car dealership and buying a car that didn’t have power windows and locks when every other car out there has them today for the same price. Non-Stereo bluetooth definitely points to older or, shall we say, “mature” hardware being used in the iPhone chassis. That turns your purchase into an upgrade promise right off that bat because you’re starting with a bleeding edge design with guts that slid off the edge long ago. I also tend to keep my phone for a couple years at least and that’s something I couldn’t see myself doing with the iPhone because of this.
I’m not about useless apps and of all the thousands of apps on the app store, most tend to be of this genre. There also seems to be a quality control problem at that store. Remember the shiny stone app for $999? How the heck did THAT get in there? You seem to have found the useful ones, but they do seem to be few and far between, percentage wise.
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I saw that video the other day and I had my share of laughs, definitely well done!
Using the touchscreen keyboard on the iPhone seems tough if you’re just testing it for a minute or two. But with time, the speed you can generate typing is incredible because of the awesome auto-correction. It’s a “learning computer” (insert Arnie voice) that learns your vocab and gets it right. Next time we need a WPM showdown…ready?
Stereo bluetooth is not a big deal because I don’t use BT headphones. In regards to the app store, there are tonnes of productivity apps, ones like OmniFocus and Things to name a few GTD apps.
Overall, I love the iPhone because I can do work on it, plus have fun too. I just don’t see that happening with a Blackberry because of the horrible UI…it’s a major turn off. The QWERTY keyboard is a waste of screen real estate. Touchscreens are the way of the future.
20,000 apps in 9 months. Yes, of course there can’t be 20,000 useful apps, but most of them are pretty useful and fun. I can only wait for fart apps to show up on the upcoming BB App Store…you just wait!
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Hey Stephen, How’s your new scooter doing? I had my Yamaha dealer install a Dr.Pulley Variator and their 3gr sliders along with a 140/90-10 rear tire on my C3 scooter.I’ve been working with a company, KS Power trying to get it to run 50mph. I’m Going to pick it up today and ride it 45 miles home from the shop.(with my gps velcroed to the left sleeve of my armored jacket!) It should run 46-48mph. (to go faster requires an exhust system) The Yammy shop foreman told me on the phone that it climbed this serious 5% grade half mile hill down the road from his shop at 35mph. We’ll see! How do I get to the blog about your old scooter? It should be interesting. Be Blessed! Gabe
Just fired up the Kymco the other day. It’s been too icy in my hood to ride it, but I’ll be back on it soon.
You should be able to search for “Yamaha C3″ or “HappyScooter” to bring up the old posts.
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I’ve got jailbroken iPhone and it ROCKS! Really. Quick, intuitive. Lots of good apps, lots of games and the best of the best – it’s so simple!
When it comes to phones, I would rather grab a phone that is not being marketed by phone companies. Companies like HTC are selling their PC phones for a high price, but consumers are buying like crazy.
As for the stupid applications, it doesn’t matter how stupid they are, the Dot Com Pho seems to promote them
-Mike
I think that John Chow and iPhone Gary promote them. We just stare stupidly at them
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Hehe, there’s nothing wrong with having some cheap laughs. You know, it’s hard surfing the net on the best mobile internet on a device, ever.
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I think it’s the apps that makes the iphone so fun to have. no matter how useless the apps are, i find myself just hitting that fart button over and over again laughing at my co workers. plus when im sitting on the “throne” i can play real soccer and other crazy games on there.
In my opinion, IPhone is not as good as people think. Mine’s had broken down after a week. My friends are also dissapointed. I’d rather buy a less expensive but more durable phone.
This carton was fricken hilarious! I love the fart button app as the tag to the cartoon. But my gawd how true it is…hell if mine had a little hair around it…I’d have sex with it twice a day!
I love your opinion. I have had the same phone the verizon LG 1st gen V-tech phone. I had all the bells and whistles TV clips, ringtones, and all the other stuff. I love the full keyboard and yes the phone is a bit big, but at least I can find it in the bottom of my purse.
I cut off the bells and whistles and have just what i need and its 4 years old and works like a charm. I have even had a whole pint of beer spilled on it and it still works.
I admit i want an IPhone but still they keep changing it and adding things so ill wait till they are done adding everything, then I might get one.
Hi there no new post for a while now i see?
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Haven’t had much time with Tax Season and all the new reviews going up at Futurelooks. I’ll definitely be getting back to this blog once things settle down more over there.
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Yeah I don’t understand the whole praise of iphone. It’s an ok device but it’s nowhere near as good as people make it up to be. It’s just a phone with a touch screen that’s all. The only thing that makes it stand up is insane ammount of money put into marketing the thing.
I just noticed that you put a huge knock on twitter shout outs at the end.
hahahahahaha.
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Oh and by the way – really great cartoon
I still can’t get over this video!
And Swingers Comment was great!
Hey @dating: I never got into the V-Tech stuff…at all. But like I said, if my iPhone had a patch a hair…I’d have sex with it many times daily.
With the VTech, I would feel like I might get electrocuted! lol
So go with it, I say help make that cartoon viral. To hell with the rest of the phones of the world…
To the iPhone… Touche’