You've totally missed his point. Like his home, your iPhone came with several well-documented features. And like his house, while you knew that new upgrades were possible, you received no guarantee that new features would ever be added.
If I bought a home with a pool and it turned out the pool leaked and the filter didn't work for more than an hour at a time I might be disappointed. If the parties responsible said don't worry they would delight me and installed new chintz curtains in response I would be disappointed.
Can you share more info on the exact demographic? Age group is probably a huge factor, but what else?Working for a wireless provider, if you had access to the demographic profile of users who purchase 90+% of ringtones and wallpapers, you would understand
It's all in the "bling" factor. Unimportant to me but important enough to some to generate huge profit margins for the carriers. For every one of us who really couldn't care less about a ringtone other than that it can be heard, there are 20 who are more than happy to part with $3 to have their phone ring with Akon singing Smack DatTo this crowd, the .99 Apple solution is a significant bargain.
Rick
I agree, but that has nothing to do with the example. Just repeat to yourself, there is no pool.
Age group is a huge common factor (< 30) along with an ultra high percentage of purchasers not owning their own accounts (family plan, co-signer) or requiring deposits for service.Can you share more info on the exact demographic? Age group is probably a huge factor, but what else?
I agree with that. Business is businesss. I lost all my mods and I'm frustrated like the rest of you guys but please just understand that if you own a businesss you wouldn't like people using 3rd party apps on your product, of course you would want people to buy your applications. And besides, complaining won't do nothing because as a businesssman it's all about the law of supply and demand. Like a mere 20-30% is complaining about the update, so what they still have 70-80%. It won't make that much of a difference. And besides, they're already updating the features, no more bug fixes so I hope that the next updates will be more features like what people want from day 1. So just please be patient. What Apple needs to do is to make sure that the bricked phones from the update that was not modded or unlocked is gonna be fixed or something like that.
not really sure this is worth replying to, but...
I don't disagree that the blame falls on the end user, however I am trying to make a distinction between luxury and common features. Cut/paste capability is (or should be) a bread-and-butter feature, especially if email and texting are largely touted features of a device. I don't expect every house to have a swimming pool, however I do expect houses with two levels to have stairs, for example. I'd expect a device such as (and costing as much as it does) the iPhone that is capable of large amounts of text entry to have basic functionality such as cut/paste.
Ditto. Where is the undo feature on this update? Waste of time.just had to vent, I have been waiting on ICHAT, flash, cut and paste, deleting multiple emails along with a few other simple but basic and important features since early july after purchasing this freakin phone! is that really too much to ask for Stevie? I'm just stumped at this point, racking my brain as to why these basic features are still not implemented on a $600 device, Christ, what are they thinking?! this latest update SUCKS!
You did read at least some of the posts (or the actual statement by Apple) that this (then impending) update could render some phones inoperable - didn't you? Where is the trickery? For heaven's sake, they gave us all fair warning.
You weren't "fooled"... you have the option of updating... if you think the update is meaningless and a trick... DON'T DO IT! Plain and simple. It's the same as buying the phone, if it was lacking features you must have and still bought the phone anyway, then shame on you and it was a dumb move! And there were warnings about the possiblities of losing 3rd party apps... why not wait and see what unfolds instead of updating and then being pissed about it?! This phone has a great feature that allows the software to be easily updated, which is great! It allows us to get new features that weren't originally included instead of having to wait for version 2... if you call that being "fooled", so be it, but you didn't have to update OR buy the phone to begin with! Please, stop complaining!
couldn't have said it better...I know its hopeless to engage in font fights with some of these iRobots, who don't undertstand that if you need something sometimes you have to ask! or voice concerns. whether or not we purchased our phones with the exclusion of some applications, ichat etc, there are so many other simple and necessary features that the iPhone was not equipped with. Copy and paste in any of the applications is a perfect example, I doubt anyone was aware or even thought to ask if the phone was capable of doing this when they were looking to purchase. It's 2007 for god's sake! I mean c'mon on now. All the features that were included in this last update, I am not gonna say thay are all worthless but how can u add wifi store and all this other stuff and still exempt the basics !
But if you bought a house knowing it didn't have stairs, then the blame again falls to you.
