Sunday, April 20, 2008

Annoying Iphone Downloads

By Charlie Reese

Are iPhone Software Downloads More Annoying Than iPhone Users?

Granted, there are very few things in life more annoying than a diehard iPhone user. Even things like tornadoes and typhoons are more tolerable, since they are forces of nature which are impossible to avoid. But what about the senseless pain of being stuck on an hour long bus ride and hearing an iPhone user screech in delight at an endless stream of inane chatter? Perhaps the iPhone software downloads are even more annoying.

No Batteries Included

Once upon a time in the old days, when you got a phone, all you had to do was choose the phone and the Phone Company did all of the rest. No more. Although today's phones can do a lot more than just receive and make calls, with more complexity has come more responsibility. It is now the customer who has to get the phone working. And the phones do not come with everything included anymore.

One of the reasons an iPhone is so labor intensive is because it needs iPhone software downloads from Apple in order to do all the great things its advertised to do. When the iPhone was released, demands for the iPhone software downloads crashed Apple's web site (the only source of the downloads) for days. You also have to log on to Apple's website in order to unlock your iPhone to get it to do anything except be a conversation piece.

For Geeks Only

One of the problems people are having with the iPhone is the iPhone software downloads. They don't always seem to speak the same language as the phone, making it behave slowly or erratically. Although this will normally happen if you use pirated or illegal iPhone software downloads, there have been problems with the official versions, too.

Another big problem of iPhone software downloads is that they are so complicated to work. The iPhone itself is very complicated for the average consumer. So far, the only fans of iPhone are technophiles known not nicely on the Internet as "fanboys". They are used to taking an hour and pages of instructions in order to get anything done. The average person can't even be bothered to read prescription medicine instructions much less instructions for iPhone software downloads.

This makes you wonder just who the iPhone was designed for. Quite possibly for annoying iPhone users, who tend to have a large disposable income. It certainly was not made for the average person. This writer has two college degrees, and I can't even figure out the iPhone software download instructions.

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