Here is why you should hate the iphone
I never really wanted the iphone. My Ipod experiences were not excitingly great. I didnt like the Mac all that much other than the hardware and I was/am exceedingly in love with the freedom & choice of open source.
But, few things captures a woman’s mind as iphone. And I have two women at home to impress. And so, I have two iphones
. But the problem? I have two iphones to fix.

Try doing something, anything that Apple does not prescribe. I shall tell you a few and I promise this will not include the standard crib about Jail breaking, unlocking, video recording and the likes.
- Transfer contacts from iphone to a reasonably dumb phone that cannot be connected to a computer. Try it.
- Send a file from computer or another phone to the iphone over bluetooth.
- Connect the iphone to a linux computer and try syncing photos or music.
- Try exporting/backing up text messages to another phone.
- Try to sync only your photos and not everything else.
- Try to manage two iphones with one laptop.
- Add a “+91″ to the front of the number you just typed in the phone dialer without deleting anything.
- Type any setting information, all in caps (say the APN of your cell network)
- Copy paste text into SMS app and try to edit it.
Obviously, this is a list of cribs at the top of my mind. Also, there are solutions to all the above, but with headache.
Stay away from Apple products if you want to do stuff with your gadgets. When they say, buy an Apple product and forget it, they literally mean it.

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11 Aug 10 at 6:26 PM
So it isn’t just me. Thank God for that!
There’s more -
1. Messages getting deleted randomly and arbitrarily. I’ve had this happen to me at least twice already in a few months of owning one.
2. Custom photo albums disappearing after the upgrade to iOS4.
By the way, editing text is a pain not just in the SMS app but everywhere. For the life of me I can’t get the cursor to the middle of a word. I probably managed that just once out of the umpteen number of times I tried.
And these are just functional issues. I won’t even touch the performance-related ones.
I see myself switching over to something else very soon. Just waiting for Phone 7 to come out to see how it is, before I decide which platform gets my vote.
Prashanth
11 Aug 10 at 6:27 PM
not too good advertising by google – next to a i-hate-iphone article , saying wholesale iphones at $149 with free shipping
wrong relevance – eg http://www.businessinsider.com/googles-worst-ads-ever-2009-8#hear-fluffys-last-meow-3
Suvankar
12 Aug 10 at 1:32 PM