Reply to: Apple ad banned again for dishonesty

[TheFaQQer]

I've held off getting an iPhone as it doesn't have a keyboard (Crackberry all the way for me), but I got a Touch as soon as they came out as I like to watch movies & TV on the go. For that it's brilliant, and now that the application platform isn't that web-only tulip they came out with initially I've got nothing but praise for it.

I think the iPhone is a great platform, that seems to be suffering from o2's lack of investment in it's network.

And as for £40 a month for all you get on the iPhone tariff, that's a bargain - my blackberry tariff is over £50.

The lack of keyboard (plus some features that I would like, e.g. forwarding a text message) was what put me off - I tried to type on their touchscreen and couldn't do it.

The Google G1 is my first touch screen phone I've had, but the full keyboard means that it's useable as well!!

[BrianSnail]

Was that directed for me?

[expat]

I'm still trying to make sense by it!

Why don't youse all feck about!

[Spacecadet]

Was that directed for me?

I'm still trying to make sense by it!

[tay]

Don't get me started! [Frothing at mouth smiley]. Why do people seem to think that all prepositions are interchangeable? Maybe we should just have one preposition: work out for yourself what relationship is meant.

Exempli gratia:

You are bored with something if the point of the statement is your boredom.
Less commonly, your are bored by something if the point of the statement is the action it performs of making you bored.
All too commonly, you are bored of something if you can't be arsed to work out what it is that you are saying or what relation should use what preposition, so you just dumbly pick by comparison with other, quite different, phrases like "tired of".

Was that directed for me?

[expat]

directed for people

at ? I assume.

Don't get me started! [Frothing at mouth smiley]. Why do people seem to think that all prepositions are interchangeable? Maybe we should just have one preposition: work out for yourself what relationship is meant.

Exempli gratia:

You are bored with something if the point of the statement is your boredom.
Less commonly, your are bored by something if the point of the statement is the action it performs of making you bored.
All too commonly, you are bored of something if you can't be arsed to work out what it is that you are saying or what relation should use what preposition, so you just dumbly pick by comparison with other, quite different, phrases like "tired of".

[Moscow Mule]

It is directed for people who prefer style over substance.

at ? I assume.

Regardless, I think the iphone/ipod touch platform has a lot of merit and a long way to run yet.

I've held off getting an iPhone as it doesn't have a keyboard (Crackberry all the way for me), but I got a Touch as soon as they came out as I like to watch movies & TV on the go. For that it's brilliant, and now that the application platform isn't that web-only tulip they came out with initially I've got nothing but praise for it.

I think the iPhone is a great platform, that seems to be suffering from o2's lack of investment in it's network.

And as for £40 a month for all you get on the iPhone tariff, that's a bargain - my blackberry tariff is over £50.

[tay]

Well, your ire should probably be directed at o2ey but hey ho. The iphone is obviously for metrosexuals only...

It is directed for people who prefer style over substance.

[stingman123]

Well, your ire should probably be directed at o2ey but hey ho. The iphone is obviously for metrosexuals only...

Whatever, I suppose you know best, the last I saw, it was the latest fasion accessory, in a Stabucks in Kings X, full of spotty student types, obviously happy with their 24 month, £40 per month tariff. The funny thing was most of them couldn't connect to the internet?!!!?!?! It was the only sentence I could hear, "I got no connection"... I assume they meant the internet?

And they can still afford to sit around drinking? Ah the joys of London...

[Moscow Mule]

Ah! The center of the universe? Sorry, I live waaaay up in the north east where all phone's seem to work OK bar the iphone, and yes....it is only the iphone, more like iphoney

Well, your ire should probably be directed at o2ey but hey ho. The iphone is obviously for metrosexuals only...

[TykeMerc]

The adverts don't appear to have been banned.

[Bob Dalek]

Apple/whoever: can't be as bad as T-Mobile's Web-n-Walk.

Web-n-Wait... forever, more like.

[stingman123]

Do you live in the sticks? A couple of my mates have got and say it's fine (round that London way)...

Ah! The center of the universe? Sorry, I live waaaay up in the north east where all phone's seem to work OK bar the iphone, and yes....it is only the iphone, more like iphoney

[Moscow Mule]

The problem is, nobody wants to sit watching a 8 min ad while the iphone is attemting to connect, load its homepage, you type in your url, then wait. There is also the option of waiting @20 mins for it to find you with its GPS?

Don't even get me started on the mail....

Boring and laughable

Do you live in the sticks? A couple of my mates have got and say it's fine (round that London way)...

[TheFaQQer]

I'm getting one next week - can't wait!

It's no G1, I'll say that for it.