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Originally Posted by Happy Noodle Boy
This is like trying to sue a fast food shop for not serving you a meal that looks like the ones from commercials. You know the ones I'm talking about, the ones with oh so delicious perfectly cooked meat, perfect melted slices of cheeze, the right amount of fresh tomatoes and lettuce and just enough mayonnaise to finish it up. Actual meals NEVER look like that. Do I care?
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I bet that in these ads, the company don't slag off their competitor on a regular basis, and in the ads, they tell you what you're getting, and not what it will look like. In the iPhone ads they told (<- past tense) you specifically: really really fast, real internet. But apparently, that wasn't the case, as only one iPhone advert in the UK has been approved.
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Originally Posted by chris_3cr
So, I buy a Ferrari. Yet it turns out the roads and law enforcement won't let me drive it at the speeds it is advertised at doing. Do I sue Ferrari because they advertised a car which is capable of high speed yet the roads and law won't allow me to go that fast?
So why are people blaming Apple that the speed of the network is not good enough? Blame your service provider. With the right service, the iPhone is capable of those speeds.
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I don't follow you.
Of course you don't sue Ferrari because unlike Apple and AT&T and O2 and T-Mobile:
> Ferrari didn't make an exclusive deal with the road contractor so that only Ferraris can drive on their private roads. Therefore, they do not make claims that it is always really really fast! Apple
chose to make an exclusive deal with AT&T/O2, who they said were the "best" to host the iPhone ("best" meaning that they bid the highest. example- Vodafone have better 3G capability than O2.), then they advertise speed.
> Speed limits and law enforcement aren't there for for Ferraris alone, they're there for all cars. Seeing as the iPhone has its own private network of roads, why the hell can't I drive as fast as you said I could?
> You can make a Ferrari go as fast as you want at any time, be it safe to or not. Ferrari don't make ads that claim their cars to be the best /fastest. They say "top speed 170mph". You buy the car, go on the motorway, look around, and reach 170mph and be proud. An iPhone ad will tell you "speed of x kb/s, really really fast internet" with nice music playing in the background. You jump up in excitement, sign the contract, buy the phone, load a page.....then you have to gamble and hope for "optimal conditions" to get the magical advertised speed. Hardly Ferrari-like.
>You can choose where you want to drive your Ferrari, and with what fuel you want to fill it up with. You can't on an iPhone, you stick with the network they give you, and pay through the colon if you're abroad.
Bottom line- you can control a Ferrari's speed and direction. and you can't control an iPhone's (unless you jailbreak). I can't see an iPhone as a Ferrari of the mobile world; too many people have it, and it has had too many problems in comparison to a Ferrari for it to be called a "SuperPhone".
And no, the iPhone isn't that fast on any current service. In the UK, where 3G is faster and more widespread than the US, pages don't load that fast. Hell, those adverts (which were recently pulled, for misleading viewers) looked smoother than WiFi, let alone 3G. The adverts were misleading, and they were pulled from UK television the other week.