Why my iPhone still rocks and why iLife ’08 sucks ass!
So, I ‘m 2 months in with my iPhone. I’m settled. And I am pretty much (already) to the stage where you would have to pry this thing from my cold, dead fingers. Most of the pros and cons still stand from my initial post on the subject, but I figured I would update you on a few things.
First, they did a firmware upgrade, and the crashing thing is almost non-existent now. Thank sweet baby Jesus. Because I really was crashing at least once or twice a day. Like, brainfarts out the wing-wang.
Second, I will reiterate: The Edge network is SLOW AS FUCK for web surfing. I sincerely hope that AT&T uses the oodles of cash they made from this deal to upgrade their network. The good news I am surprised how much WiFi I get (like, did you know that Cherry Creek North blows out 3 hours of it for free?)… AND I am REALLY surprised at how many people do not password-protect their personal broadband. Whatever, dude. Then you deserve me jumping on and sucking it up. Slurp slurp.
What also is surprising is how many “No Service” errors I get. They are fleeting and mostly happen on the west side of town (damn huge-ass rocks jutting into the sky)… but as I read more about it – there seems to some issue with the SIM cards and people getting Apple to make major repairs related to this “No Service” thing. To be honest, though, it doesn’t happen often enough to spur me into Apple and demand repairs. I am more mad at Apple right now for other things, as you will see below.
OK, one more complaint: Syncing is touchy. Sometimes iTunes see the iPhone, sometimes not so much. It’s like they are two squabbling 3 year olds and I need to make them understand that they really do WANT to play together, that it’s more fun, and *if* they place nice, we can have a snack with Teddy Grahams later.
Oh, and my only other major negative is that I keep hanging up on people with my face.
On to the positive.
First, I am getting used to the earbuds (even though I am still searching for my dream headset, and no, it’s not Jawbone, although Jawbone is fun to say. Jawbone. JAW! BONE!) But mainly, the other wonder is how much I am using the iPod component of the iPhone. I mean, I had my Shuffle but I forgot how nice it is to listen to EXACTLY what I want EXACTLY when I want to. The speakers are even decent (decent being a relative term) to put the iPhone in my cupholder to let me rock on the commute. It’s just so funny that I have turned into one of those people who walk down the street with white cords hangout out of my ears.
Second… if your phone can handle Google Maps – GET THEE TO A COMPUTER RIGHT NOW AND DOWNLOAD GOOGLE MAPS. It is the most fucking cool thing in the whole planet. Sitting on the street corner in your car? Wonder what street the restaurant is on? Type in “Sushi Tazu Denver” and it will pop up on the map. All the info you need is RIGHT THERE. With the iPhone you can just touch the number and it’s calling ahead for shrimp tempura. Motha-fucking brilliant, I tell you! 411 is a fading memory.
And otherwise, basically I have just totally come to depend on all the things that the iPhone was meant for. And everyone around me has come to depend on it too. Danielle will regularly ask me to look something up for her as we are sitting at dinner. Pretty soon I am just going to hand the damn thing to her at the start of an evening and say “HERE! LOOK IT UP YOURSELF!” Obviously I am kidding because no one touches my iPhone but me.
So there you have it. Two months of euphoria.
Now… As for iLIFE, on the other hand…
DO NOT, I REPEAT, DO NOT UPGRADE TO iLIFE ’08 UNLESS STEVE JOBS HIMSELF SHOWS UP AT YOUR DOOR WITH ROSES, CANDY, AND A VERY GOOD EXPLANATION FOR HIS BEHAVIOR.
What in the holy hell is UP with this upgrade?
iPHOTO
A virtually non-existent upgrade. Except to make this more cumbersome to edit photos (Yes, I do use iPhoto every once in a while as opposed to Photoshop. It’s been known to happen). Oh, OK there are a few more adjustment tools. But that’s it. Yeah, that’s worth 80 bucks.
iMOVIE
This application got a COMPLETE overhaul. Now it acts more like Final Cut. Which makes absolutely no sense, because Final Cut has a lite version (Final Cut Express) – all made by Apple – so, are they setting up to merge them all? And if so, why are they doing that? iMovie is supposed to be the EASY movie editing program. It is not supposed to be set up for professionals. No grandma could pull this program out of the box and easily edit videos of Little Jimmy’s baseball game. I am seriously bummed.
iDVD
OK, here is the kicker. I finally waded through all this crap and got videos ready to be burned last night. Remember? The videos that are eight months late? I clicked “burn” and kept getting errors saying that the songs I put on the DVD “were not authorized” and that I had to authorize this computer for iTunes (it already is). Round and round and round, and I end up on the Apple forums.
Apparently this issue has been known since Day 1 of the release and there has not been a peep out of Apple. People keep suggesting that you burn CD’s of your music and then reimport them into iTunes and then it will work. Excuse me? Do you even understand how much music I own?
And then finally, someone has called Apple and apparently, the deal is this: You must buy music from iTunes PLUS for is to be burnable in iDVD ’08. iTunes Plus does not restrict the number of burns like regular iTunes. It also costs $1.29 per song rather than 99 cents. Or, you can upgrade songs you have already purchased for 30 cents.
What. The. Fuck.
Apple, you can kiss my fat ass, OK?
I have always been a Mac Evangelical. I have always stood by you.
But if this is true, this will be the biggest bait and switch in marketing history.
Because to upgrade the THOUSANDS of songs in my iTunes Library will cost me THOUSANDS of dollars. Thousands of dollars that no one has said ANYTHING about while you go on you merry way advertising all about the integration of all the iLife applications.
I sure hope they are wrong.
Until then, I will be going back to iLife ’06.
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Thank you for helping me decide NOT to buy iLife ’08. 🙂
that is seriously unbelievable.
You might want to look into the program Tunebite. Thirty bucks and restrictions go away. Although I have a different music service, so I could just be talking out of my butt and it might not work. Thirty bucks versus thousands sounds like a risk worth taking though maybe.
feeling very much like a luddite, typing on my 7 year old PC.
Love my iPhone. Hate the short battery life. Hate the rip off international data plan. But it does what they promised. G3 or G4 can’t come soon enough, though. The EDGE is like watching paint dry.
Chris, apparently it *is* a SIM card issue on the phone and that is most confusing comment I have ever heard you make. 😉
Sounds like Steve took a page from Bill’s handbook. Fucker! First it is the processors now it is the software. What’s next? Maybe Bill Gates has the REAL Steve Jobs tied up in his own personal basement dungeon, while the Microsoft CLONE Steve runs about in the world fucking up Mac land. (It could happen!)
Definitely good to know re: ilife. We’ll wait.
I cracked the glass on my iPhone. It still works, but I’m a little bummed. I need to find out what it will take to get it replaced. Otherwise I’m happy. I wish that I could get wifi on the freeway (while Hun is driving, not me), but otherwise all is working well for me.
Odd that you complain about no service but yet last Friday when my phone dropped the call I heard you say buy an IPhone. It’s not the phone that drops the calls but the carrier. Interesting though.
Thanks for the iLife update comments. Pretty much won’t be doing that…
So jealous about the iPhone. So did you get a 300 page phone bill too?
Ok. I’m so not a MAC user. Not a Windows user either. I think Windows is only one step below Disney on the scale of evil empires. I’m a Linux gal.
But I SOOOoooo want an iPhone. I’m determined to wait until G3 or G4 comes out. I am totally getting on though.
If Apple can kiss your ass, I wonder what Windows can do!
I am SO jealous. I desperately want iPhone in The Netherlands.
ha ha Nadine, I have no comment on that! 😉
Thanks for the warning!
Thanks for the update notes! I was going to get iLife 08 this weekend, so I could get the new version of iPhoto, but it sounds like I made the right decision in skipping it. It’s really too bad about the iDVD issues. That happened with an older version of iDVD, but was fixed with an update.
I’m also having trouble with the new OS update. 10.4.10 does something that makes it impossible for me to mount the external HD I use for work. Given my work/home schedule, it’s kind of a deal-breaker, so I’m still using 10.3.9, which won’t run the new iLife anyway.
Ugh… you’d think we were using Windows or something, with all these little issues.
Still jealous about the iPhone!
DenverDad – you make me hopeful that the iTunes Plus thing is wrong! I sure hope so!!!
I read in the paper today that Apple dropped the price of the iPhone by $200. :o!
I would love to have one, but the hippie-granola-crunchy side of me does not want to be *that* connected.
Ah yes, they did Shelly!!! And no Beatles iPod as was rumored.
However, with the pricedrop now I am pushing Bryan to get an iPhone too. 😉
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