I can still remember Steve Jobs comparing iPhone with the other Smartphones in the market. How can he be so deceptive? And with all this iPhone hype, all we get is the same old big brother they’ve shown thirteen years ago.

The most frustrating part of buying an iPhone is it being solely tied to wireless provider AT&T, which not only narrows down the type of provider that could give you iPhone services, but also the country where you can actually use an iPhone. And yes, Jobs already announced before that Asia will be getting the iPhone early next year. We are now in a globalized community, and how do you think Asians and the rest of the world would react to this? Not to mention a few iPhone-ers who have been complaining about the bills that AT&T are imposing on them. Seems like the iPhone is not that of a smart choice.

Lately, we were disturbed by Apple’s announcement that unlocked iPhones could be expensive bricks in the future after the new firmware update. OK, we get the “no warranty for tampered iPhones” bit in the contract, but to actually let the gadget be ruined by this software update is totally irresponsible, albeit, big-brother-ish for all owners. Instead of preventing not to destroy the iPhone, Apple has actually, and “bravely”, faced all the anger that the entire Apple-converts community could give in exchange of locking their customers around the neck, and carrying them around as Apple wanted like helpless chihuahuas. I get the if-I-buy-a-Mac-I-need-Mac-OS-X bit, but at least they should at least give more effort on researching how to make iPhones work on any telco providng the standards the iPhone supports. If the feature can’t be supported because of lack of support by the telco, just disable it…

Not ruin the entire thing for making it work! Apple can’t even assume that the entire package works, even on a majority of users. As if everyone likes AT&T or something.

Seriously!

You must know by now why I’m angry. (Cry out loud!)

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