Well my main point was that unjailbroken the iphone is pretty much a regular cell phone with some bells and whistles. If that's how you use it then I can completely understand that, although I bet the WM tinkerer in you is always fighting you inside to jailbreak it!! I can picture the devil and angel on each shoulder both making their points.
I'll tell you what, I'm quite surprised at the instablity of the iphone unjailbroken. I get more surprise resets, freezing and unexplained slowdowns than I did with my HTC Touch. Jailbroken for some reason it actually runs more stable, don't ask me how. Or possibly it's just with every update Apple gets that much closer to being stable.
I still see most of the apps as, well maybe not useless, but just fluff. I mean how many tip calculators can you have? Seriously. There are many apps though that are useful, but I've found the real hardcore ones are JB apps. Take Cycorder for example, just to have video recording is hugely useful. Or Winterboard/Customize, not required, but for Apple to take away the creativity of changing the screen, icons, UI around is just daft.
In the end I am still undecided overall about WM versus the iphone. There are so many things I miss about WM, and so many limitations to the iphone where Apple just plain out missed the boat in a big way. BUT... the iphones screen is just so freakin nice, and of course with it jailbroken it really gives back a lot of what Apple took away with it's vanilla iphone.
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Originally Posted by jpmihalk
Hmmm... I do come from that world of hardcore WM devices and trying to get them to max out their potential. My biggest problem with all of it is that I need a reliable phone first, and the unjailbroken iPhone does that. Everything else is gravy. And to say that the vast majority of apps from the App Store are "semi-useless" is an opinion and probably an assumption on your part.
I agree that the potential is there with or without jailbreaking to make the iPhone the best device ever. Jailbreaking allows users to modify the iPhone in ways that App Store apps can't - in the UI and other areas that Apple says are off-limits. I don't see anything wrong with the UI and am quite used to it. But that's just me. If I felt I needed a change that would make the iPhone more productive I would consider jailbreaking it. But not at the expense of losing the stability of the device. It is my ONLY phone. And when I had previously jailbroken my 1st gen iPhone, I found it to be lacking in stability as many of the apps caused a reboot or a sudden freeze. I am not willing to take that chance now. It does what I need - it's a phone with solid internet access and email, which is just what I need. Everything else is simply nice to have.
So... the bottom line is... to each their own.
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