mdwh2 wrote:
Don't get me wrong, I've nothing against the Iphone - I just don't see why people give it so much hype and free advertising over all other phone models, as if it were the only phone that could do these things.
Well. Hmmm. You make some valid points, and on the most part, I agree. The only thing I would say is that -- for me -- yes, other phones can do most anything the iPhone can do. HOWEVER, like the olden days when the Amiga actually had a prayer on the desktop, it's not that the iPhone does anything different, it's just that the integration of all these things seems to be 2x better and easier than the others.
Note of course that a lot of the phones we see nowadays did, in fact, steal ideas from the iPhone (the Instinct comes to mind as the most prevalent). Like Mac OSX, it's just 10x more usable and friendly to me and I'm at a point in my life where I just don't enjoy having to futz around to get computers to do stuff.
I have a thought, I hit a button, it works the way I expect. Something Windows has never done, and the Amiga has never had the opportunity to do since Commodore died.
It's like Windows 95 all over again.
That's a perspective issue. I actually have fond memories of Windows 95. I was the first adopter of any of my friends or fellow club members and I don't remember having the problems others reported.
Judging by Windows 3.1 before it, and even AmigaOS at the time (I believe 2.1 had just been released??), Windows 95 did just fine if you bought hardware for it, but isn't that the way of ANY Windows version?
Would I go back to '95? No way in hell, but then again, I specifically asked work to buy me a Mactop so I could actually work and not have to deal with XP or Vista.
Wayne
