Howard Brazee <
how...@brazee.net> wrote
> My phone is an iPhone because of these reasons:
> 1. It synchronizes all of my calendars and my wife's calendars easily
> and accurately (We don't use the "On My Mac" calendars because they
> don't synchronize). (I wish it didn't purge old calendar items though)
> 2. It synchronizes our contacts easily and accurately.
> 3. It synchronizes my iTunes.
> And more important than any of the above:
> No other phone has intelligent spam filtering of phone calls and
> e-mail either.
> If someone else came up with a way to control incoming phone calls, I
> would give up all of the benefits of going Apple. I hope Apple is the
> first company to do so. Real Soon Now
My phone is an iphone basically because the user interface
is a lot better done than with anything else available.
I hate some aspects of it, particularly that Apple gets any say
at all on what I can easily run on it, and the fact that they are
doing the most flagrantly illegal retail price maintenance in
my country, and that its very difficult to do even the most
basic maintenance like swapping the battery or one of the
switches if they stop working yourself.
I love the wealth of choice you get on apps, and that the
more exotic apps do tend to show up first on the iphone.
I love the resale value, but that's likely academic tho I might
use that to swap to an iphone 6 when they show up and
have shown that they haven't fucked anything up too badly.
I don't like the fact that it doesn't trivially appear as a disk
drive, and that you can't network it to the Win7 systems
as easily as you can with other Win7 or 8 systems, but find
that the skydrive system works pretty well for the simpler
stuff like the notes I take with me for a doctor's appointment etc.
I don't like the fact that there isnt any easy way to see just
what is using the cellular data by app when I am out of the
house and wifi is not available.
I just don't get any spam calls at all and don't expect that
I ever will. I don't get enough spam to matter on the main
email addresses that matter.