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Originally Posted by ericthehalfbee
^ Pretty good video for being shot on a cell phone.
What's really funny is reading all the Apple haters posting comments on Youtube about how the video must be fake and some of the shots were done by other cameras blah blah blah....
What's worse: the fanboy who buys a product simply because it's made by a certain company or the haters who blindly criticize any product from a certain company without even trying it out? Or when a product does a great job at a certain task they have to claim fake instead of giving credit where it's due.
Seriously, the haters are getting a little tiring. You go into any thread on any forum about the iPhone and the haters outnumber the fanboys by at least 10:1. Go check out Tom's and click on any iPhone thread for numerous examples. So who's more pathetic? I'd say the haters.
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I couldn't agree with you more. I'm no Apple fanboy (I'm a BB user) but it almost absurd how many anti-Apple fanboys hop on the bandwagon because "it's what the cool kids do" and not because of any specific technical reason.
Apple has built up a huge user base with the iPhone which has spurned a big developer base (and as a result a large number of apps) as well as a huge hacking community. This is good for progress from a technical and from a user perspective. People (at a consumer level) are now flocking to smart phones (Apple or otherwise) and are becoming more technically aware because of the iPhone.
There's no denying that the iPhone has it's faults, but in all fairness, it's issues are the same that almost all other smart phones have as well. The industry needs companies like Apple to make smart phones (and the associated features) popular to spurn innovation and bring new features to the general public. Otherwise smart phones will just be the domain of tech geeks and the business users and technical innovation in the smart phone market will become stagnant.