Someone Took the Cranky Pill This Morning: Maddox On the iPhone
- July 17th, 2007
- 4 Comments
Those of you in an office: be glad I cropped this picture.
Because our faces are all up Apple’s warm places, we rarely step back and examine competing viewpoints. For example, famous blogger Maddox thinks anyone who likes the iPhone is a huge moron and he believes the Nokia E70, with its flip out keyboard and hot appz, is the best thing since agape love.
His article begins:
First of all, the E70 has a full keyboard, not some shitty stripped down, tap-and-pray smudgy piece of shit. Nokia uses a technology that’s even more advanced than the iPhone’s tap screen, allowing you to actually feel the keys you press as you’re pressing them! The technology is called “tactile response,” and it allows you to do things like dial a phone number without staring at your screen like a shit-chucking ape. In fact, every other cellphone ever made has this technology, sometimes called “buttons.”
And ends by insulting your mother. A must read!
The iPhone is a piece of shit, and so is your face. [TheBestPageintheUniverse]
Lonelygirl15
1 year ago
Maddox is a genius! I am in love with him. I am pregnant with his child. Yeah, he’s amazing! Iphone is stupid, and so are you if you are reading this.
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Chuck (Who am I?)
1 year ago
Funny article.
If you step away from the hype and screaming….and I mean step way back, this is what I think the iPhone brings to the party.
1. Although it may be lacking alot of features that most pedestrian phones have, the iPhone has stood up and proclaimed that it’s OK to be different. It does this with it’s biggest feature, that cool mutlitouch big LCD. The iPhone dares to not flip, or click. It dares to rethink how we access features. Apple spent so much time being daring and working on whats different that they had little time to work on the common place.
2. It does show that American Industrial design is alive and well. Right or wrong it’s nice to push the envelope.
3. It does raise the bar as to what is expected from the next gen phones, engineers at Mot and Nokia are probably loving this. LG and Samsung engineers are probably confused as to what to copy next.
4. Apple has a good year or two of work ahead of them to make the next gen (probably 3rd or 4th gen) iPhones what they should have been to start with. When that happens you should be selling your RIM stock. Until then RIM is laughing all of the way to to bank.
5. The iPhone is a crappy feature locked PDA with a poor choice in phone service. My old HP Win CE PDA can kick the iPhones ass with add on applications, but my HP pales in comparison to the eye candy interface and gee wiz touch screen of the iPhone.
I think I’ll keep my phone and PDA for now, but maybe in a year or two when gen 3 or 4 of the iPhone comes out I could be a Kool Aid drinker too.
glevik (Who am I?)
1 year ago
Having owned an e70 for over a year, I can attest to the fact that unlike the iPhone e70 does not get one laid, a feature Maddox carelessly, or embarrassingly, overlooked. That, in turn, may explain Maddox’s hyperventilation.
Mr. Gunn (Who am I?)
1 year ago
I sent his brilliant rant to a friend who loves apple and rushed out to get an iphone.