Bummer — a friend of mine just got an iPhone without asking me first. I know a lot of his friends already have one and it's great to be in the pack and get the same thing everyone else has... but, *sigh*. I ended up having to completely erase and reformat TWO of his home computers and put Vista on one and a bootleg copy of Windows XP on another, just so he could run iTunes and sync his phone. And he had to cancel his account with T-Mobile and get a locked AT&T phone, even though AT&T spies on Americans.If he had just asked me, he would have known that the T-Mobile G1 with Android works perfectly with Linux, is completely synced automatically with his contact list on Gmail (and gets his Gmail direct to his phone), and has a videocamera built-in with upload to YouTube. Can't do that on an iPhone. Oh and it still has all the games and a beautiful touch-screen. And a slide-out full-size keyboard. And it's cheaper.
I didn't say a word to him about it, and instead spent the entire afternoon on Saturday doing computer maintenance for him so he could get his stupid locked-in Apple device to work.
Why do people listen to anyone other than me for technology advice? *sigh*.
3 comments:
i was totally going to get the new iphone. what are you talking about? i thought we were all on the fence the last time we talked?! As in, some good things, some bad...
The last time we spoke, the latest update of the G1 software wasn't out yet (it's called Cupcake). It's great.
But to be fair there are some negatives to the G1 -- it's thicker because of the pull-out keyboard, and the battery life isn't great. For me though, those are worth the tradeoffs because I LOVE having a real keyboard after using a BlackBerry for so long, and I really like the camcorder and Gmail integration.
This summer there will be a new model that's a bit sleeker -- might be worth seeing what it looks like?
will absolutely wait til the summer. i am a little concerned by the fact you had to reformat two computers, but wait til the summer we shall...
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