Living in an apple orchard ... talk about #Hivemind

A friend asked today whether I would recommend the Apple iPhone or not.  Here is my response (toned down a bit for the web).

I can't bear the Apple iPhone. Oversold.

Their technology is kinda clever, their designs are tactile and - mostly - user-friendly. But I don't understand why you spend a fortune designing and marketing a product that costs a fortune to buy, and you go and bloody-well give it Bluetooth, but leave it unable to connect to anything except another iPhone. Nada ... not even a headset. Not a PC. Not another manufacturer's phone. Nothing. AND why do you have to have iTunes installed to be able to do anything with the phone on your PC (which you have to connect with a cable, because - oh yes - it can't blooming bluetooth with it!)?

And while I'm at it ... what's with NOT supplying a manual with the phones? Is it meant to be an evolutionary miracle that, like animals, we actually all know what to do with the wretched things - if we just release our inner instincts? I know that's false, because I've had to help out a few new iPhone customers with their unwise purchases, when they haven't understood how it works and don't have the balls to recognise that that's a product flaw - NOT a quirky attraction. FOOLS!

Don't even get me started on the fact that the new iPhone is so clever, they've hidden the antenna right on the spot your hand goes over when you hold the phone to make a call. So, the iPhone can't actually - erm - phone. Nice. Considering paying a fortune for an iPod that takes a simcard? Hahahahaha!

So ... nope ... I guess you could say that I'm not that keen on the overpriced, over marketed, oversold, overly presumptuous, self-important, under-performing, priced-like-PC-performs-like-a-Walkman iPhone.