Fuck You Too, Apple
Apple came out and announced iPhone OS 3.0 a few days ago. It’s got some great new stuff in it, including (finally) push notifications, copy+paste, MMS (picture/video messages), turn-by-turn navigation, and more. Reading the news, I thought to myself, “Great, I’ve been wanting MMS since this thing came out.”
Honestly, how is it that a $600 phone was ever released doesn’t have one of the most common features in existence? I’ve heard arguments that it wasn’t required, because the phone handled email. After all, email is better than picture messaging, right? Apple was one of the first companies to stop putting floppy drives in their computers, because they were ahead of the curve. Such is the case with MMS, right?
Wrong. Dead fucking wrong. As long as you have friends out there who have and use MMS, email is worthless in filling the void. It certainly has its place–after all, I use email on my phone all the time. But almost none of my friends or family have a phone that does email. Nope, they all have regular phones that “only” to MMS. It’s bothered me since the day I bought my phone.
Great, right? They’re finally fixing a fundamental flaw with the phone by adding in a missing feature. Oh wait, there’s some small print. “Only available on iPhone 3G.” Huh? So because I was there in line on the first day, giving Apple my money without ever seeing the phone in person, I got fucked. Well, fuck you too, Apple. I’m buying a Pre as soon as the damn thing is released. Ironically, that likely means Palm will screw me somehow, too. But, at least they haven’t done it yet, and Apple has.