Ridiculous isn’t it! The iphone only offers one programming language to build what you want where smartphones allow multiple development environments using C/C++, Python, Java and so on. Another reason to avoid the iphone like a plague.

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Story via [Wired] via [The Flash Blog]

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Watch their promotional video below for a good laugh:

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The iphone was really invented in the sixteen hundreds

Its well known that your typical iphone owner believes apple invented a lot of the features the iphone possesses like apps, a touch screen, web browsers on mobile phones etc. Apple really don’t mind this, in fact they want you to think they are cutting edge, even if they are not. When MMS and copy and paste finally came to the iphone many people were convinced Apple had invented them.

It’s also well known by those of us who have been using decent phones for a while now that these features have been available on plenty of smart phones years before the iphone came out. So to celebrate Apple’s ability to pull the wool over Joe Sixpack’s eyes here’s a list of features we believe will be in the next generation iphone. A list the iphone fan boys will no doubt have a great time claiming apple came up with all on their lonesome:

A bigger screen
480×320 AKA HVGA is so 2002 which makes the iphone look like a dinosaur compared to some of the latest phones coming out. Here’s betting that Apple will adopt the WVGA standard and claim some sort of new era in high resolution wide screen mobile video. Even though all the other touchscreen phones are already using it.
Wireless syncing
No longer will you need to dig around for your iphone cable to plug into your computer to sync your phone. Apple will invent the wireless connection. If only everyone else hadn’t been using it long before the iphone
Front facing camera
Video calling on mobile phones never really took off due to interoperability issues between carriers and the exhorbitant prices charged for calls but if done right Apple could reinvigorate this area with the power of the internet. What’s more likely to happen though is they’ll introduce it on the iphone and keep it proprietary but still tell everyone it’s totally revolutionary.

Multitasking
This one is still a maybe but if they do finally catch up you can bet they’ll make it look like they came up with it. Even if jailbroken iphones have been able to do it since the beginning

What do you think will be in the next generation iphone and do you think Apple will try and con us into thinking they invented it again?

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Called Ikee the worm itself isn’t malicious, although it could well have done a lot of damage. It exploits a vulnerability on devices where the secure shell (SSH) password has not been changed. Once on the system it changes the wallpaper to a picture of Rick Astley – also known as Rick Rolling then looks for other hosts on the internet to infect.

So think twice before you consider the iPhone for serious use. It’s good for music, entertainment and the occasional  phone call but it’s not for the enterprise world.

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• Are more concerned about their partner’s range of gadgets rather than education
• Have no “netiquette” with over 1/3 having broken up over email or SMS
• Are turned on by gadgets
• Amazingly 1/5 iphone owners admit to accessing porn with their phone. Amazing considering the phone skews towards female ownership
• Are tossers. Apparently they like to think they play more sport and label themselves as intellectuals and extroverts. Which is all kind of difficult when you spend so much time with your head stuck in your phone

Our own extensive studies conducted by iphones suck.com have also drawn the conclusion that iphone owners are:

• Extremely sensitive towards criticism
• In denial about the money wasted on their purchase and the lack of features on their phone
• At least 95% of people who own iphones and a mac want to have Steve Jobs’ love child
• Likely to cry when they read this article

Retrovo would like you to draw your own conclusions from the study’s data – so we have. Our conclusion is: iPhones really do continue to suck.

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However, 99.99% of these apps are just trash. What’s left of the apps available mainly consists of some games and apps simply not required on another smartphone because they come pre-installed.

Appsfire as a company that tracks the number of installed and actively used applications on the iphone has suggested that pretty much no one uses anything more than the top thousand or so applications on the iphone. Their argument is that no one can find the good applications. In reality it’s because most of them are useless.

iphone apps can be broken down into a number of types:

The junk or toy app

This segment is by far the largest on the iphone as the barrier to entry is low and it seems you don’t need to be original. The torch, lighter, fart, lantern, buzzer, flute, piano, drum etc etc apps. There’s millions of them and all they do is entertain the purchaser for about 2 seconds until they’re left to rot. Never to be launched again.

The copy cat apps

Most of these also belong in the junk application section as developers try to emulate the success of some of the more useless apps out there. A quick search for fart on itunes yieled 400 apps. The only reason I found 400 was because that’s the limit for the number of results itunes will return.

Web shortcut “apps”

These apps just ain’t apps. They just install an icon that when tapped either fires up the web browser or pretends to be an app but really just contains an embedded web browser.

Itunes is chockers with these as every digital media publisher and blogger jumped on the iphone bandwagon. Although there’s no clear numbers on exactly how many of these there
are, it’s fairly clear that every man and his dog has got one. My guess is that there are 20,000+ shortcut apps.

News Readers

These are essentially RSS readers but customised for a site. These are usually produced from app templates in their hundreds. They are completely useless and could all be replaced by one RSS reader.  At last count there were 2000 of these in the news category on the app store.

Workaround apps

This category requires some explaining. You see Apple in their infinite wisdom decided to create a great browsing experience with Safari but they forgot to include a few features that web browsers have. Like Flash and Java – Two key parts of the browser experience. Without them many of the websites you use day to day are useless. For example youtube. This is why Apple had to write a youtube app. This is also the reason why many of your favourite sites also had to write an app. I’m not dismissing the value of these apps to an iphone user but most non-iphone smart phone users simply don’t need
them as the browser will happily load third party plugins. This area is very hard to judge but there’s no doubt there’s hundreds of them.

The useful apps

When you strip away the junk this is what you’re left with. As a “smartphone” the iphone comes pretty bare so the first thing a new owner needs to do is fire up the app store and try to track down the basic apps that make a smartphone a smartphone.

When someone next tells you the iphone is so cool because it has over 100k apps don’t let the numbers cloud your judgement. They’re nothing but junk.

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Today the tables have turned and it is Apple who wants to turn us into a world of white earbudded clones praying to the might of Steve Jobs, AKA Big Brother. Here’s a fantastic parody of Apple’s original advertisement along with a plug for doubleTwist which supposedly frees you from the tyranny of the iphone, ipod and itunes.

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When the original iphone was released it was at the high end of mobile computing technology. Now, even with the latest 3GS its tech specs are looking pretty dated. There are only so many new features Apple can tack on to keep people interested before they realise the iphone is just a pig with makeup on.

When the iphone gets to the point where it is seriously outdated. Which will be sometime late 2009/early 2010 Apple will have to drop support for the earlier generations of phones as they release a new generation. Suddenly all those millions who bought the earlier generation of phones will have to upgrade. We have already seen this kind of forced upgrade with the 3GS as the 3.1 firmware has made the earlier revisions of the iphone significantly slower.

Will you keep mindlessly upgrading? What if you don’t? Will you be left with an unsupported brick?

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Marie-Dominique Kolega, from Aix-en-Provence in France, has threatened to file a complaint against Apple.

She says her 18-year-old son was struck in the eye by a piece of glass when the screen shattered on his girlfriend’s iPhone.

According to Ms Kolega, the phone began making a hissing noise and the screen suddenly broke, sending pieces flying in the air.

Via News.com.au

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