most people i know (read=mac obsessed fanboys) have been waiting eagerly for months for the announcement of the iphone, sure to be God's gift to the computer using world (read=everyone). now that they can finally put away their mock-ups and feast their eye's on the real thing, however, the shiny object joy of the touchscreen and the sheer mac-ness of it all seems to be wearing off under the decidedly not so shiny glare of reality. as a person who has worked fairly extensively with both mac's and pc's, i have to say in the interest of full disclosure that i generally consider myself to be more of a pc person. i will say, though, that mac does what it does well, and that they have an absolutely killer marketing strategy. i won't list all my pros and cons of each here, but in my last laptop buying consideration process i came thisclose to a mac but just couldn't bring myself to make the switch...to me macs are an illusion somehow, and they never quite live up to their expectations in day to day use. plus i make my living fixing broken pc's at the moment, so who i am to complain about shaky os's?
at any rate, initially the iphone does look pretty effing sweet, but it looks like it might be better as the new ipod (though apple won't be the first working this touchscreen) and not so much as a phone. the good cnet bloggers over at crave have put together a pretty good list of why the iphone may just be good for shiny object lust and not so much actual use...sorry mac fans, but you can't be all right, all the time.
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