Having experience from a resistive touchscreen smartphone (Sony Ericsson P800), I was exactly like this guy. It wasn’t as bad as pocketpc because at least they put some thought in designing a “touchable” UI and didn’t assume that the user is always using a stylus like on pocketpc, but typing on the keyboard fucking sucked for any word with more than 3 letters.
Then, one day, in an electronics store they had a kiosk with the iPod touch (Apple skipped the iPhone 2g in my country) and I tried it with superiority “let’s see how the typing experience fucking sucks”.
For the first minute I was like a monkey. Unable to type anything. My experience with resistive touchscreens condutioned me to touch the screen with the tip of the nails, so the presses didn’t register.
Then I realized that I could just touch the screen with the finger. My mind was blown. I HAD to buy it, I bought it on the spot, without any research. I even bought a Philips alarm clock with the iPod dock. Spent too much money that day.
And from that day I started to hate Apple with passion. The demo unit had the email client installed so I justified myself “well at least I can read emails on this on WiFi, it’s not only for music and playing the Happy Orange game” but the fucking assholes put that behind a 18 euro DLC. And the assholes even charged for iOS updates! They had the courage to ask me 8 euro to update to iOS 3! The worst part were all the fanboys on the forums defending Apple saying that they were forced by some obscure American law, because being sold a “music listening device” it would have been illegal for them to give free software updates and they HAD to charge the customers. (???)
Yes and no, because no other manufacturer in the world ever charged for firmware updates.
Example Sony and the psp. They added new features but didn’t charge a cent (users were even forced to update to run new games)
Or Microsoft and the Xbox.
Or when Apple itself sent a free update to the previous iPod to add games support. New feature not present at purchase time, but free update.
It’s simply that the apple legal team intentionally chose to use creative accounting in a way that then they could say “oh no, the revenue recognition law of the united states’ is forcing us to ask money for updates, we’re so sowwy, please insert your credit card number”.
The law didn’t impose them to charge that much money (18 euro for an email client on a 300 euro device is a lot, IMHO)
And that excuse they used “the iPhone is a carrier subscription device so it can get free updates according to us law” is shaky as it was sold standalone in most European countries at the same time or the iPod touch.
Btw I didn’t give them any additional money, jailbroke my device and added the feature that I was promised for free. And paying for iOS 3 losing the jailbreak? LOL
and then when they realized that they couldn’t block jailbreak users, they put iOS 4 for free. Suddenly that American law vanished in thin air
Having experience from a resistive touchscreen smartphone (Sony Ericsson P800), I was exactly like this guy. It wasn’t as bad as pocketpc because at least they put some thought in designing a “touchable” UI and didn’t assume that the user is always using a stylus like on pocketpc, but typing on the keyboard fucking sucked for any word with more than 3 letters.
Then, one day, in an electronics store they had a kiosk with the iPod touch (Apple skipped the iPhone 2g in my country) and I tried it with superiority “let’s see how the typing experience fucking sucks”.
For the first minute I was like a monkey. Unable to type anything. My experience with resistive touchscreens condutioned me to touch the screen with the tip of the nails, so the presses didn’t register.
Then I realized that I could just touch the screen with the finger. My mind was blown. I HAD to buy it, I bought it on the spot, without any research. I even bought a Philips alarm clock with the iPod dock. Spent too much money that day.
And from that day I started to hate Apple with passion. The demo unit had the email client installed so I justified myself “well at least I can read emails on this on WiFi, it’s not only for music and playing the Happy Orange game” but the fucking assholes put that behind a 18 euro DLC. And the assholes even charged for iOS updates! They had the courage to ask me 8 euro to update to iOS 3! The worst part were all the fanboys on the forums defending Apple saying that they were forced by some obscure American law, because being sold a “music listening device” it would have been illegal for them to give free software updates and they HAD to charge the customers. (???)
IIRC they had to charge money for iOS updates for the iPod touch is because of the law at the time.
Yes and no, because no other manufacturer in the world ever charged for firmware updates.
Example Sony and the psp. They added new features but didn’t charge a cent (users were even forced to update to run new games)
Or Microsoft and the Xbox.
Or when Apple itself sent a free update to the previous iPod to add games support. New feature not present at purchase time, but free update.
It’s simply that the apple legal team intentionally chose to use creative accounting in a way that then they could say “oh no, the revenue recognition law of the united states’ is forcing us to ask money for updates, we’re so sowwy, please insert your credit card number”.
The law didn’t impose them to charge that much money (18 euro for an email client on a 300 euro device is a lot, IMHO)
And that excuse they used “the iPhone is a carrier subscription device so it can get free updates according to us law” is shaky as it was sold standalone in most European countries at the same time or the iPod touch.
Btw I didn’t give them any additional money, jailbroke my device and added the feature that I was promised for free. And paying for iOS 3 losing the jailbreak? LOL
and then when they realized that they couldn’t block jailbreak users, they put iOS 4 for free. Suddenly that American law vanished in thin air