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To: Tumbleweed who wrote (139703)	8/25/2012 4:13:29 AM
From: JP Sullivan	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213172

Apple's insistence on not allowing alternative dialling and texting apps in the app stores I don't know about dialling apps, but there is at least one texting app at the store: WhatsApp. I use it in place of iMessage when texting people who are not using iOS products. The case seems to be about copying icons and the like, but whats affecting me is not the icon, but whats underneath, the actual functionality. Apple is hardly always the first in introducing the next cool feature. I'm sure it has a long to-do list vis the competition. Perhaps the next release of iOS might address your concern; perhaps never. Who knows? One thing's for sure, there are compromises in every OS and nobody ever gets absolutely everything they'd like on their device. It's your overall experience and satisfaction level with it that counts, I guess.

To: Tumbleweed who wrote (139703)	8/25/2012 11:50:53 AM
From: Kelly G.	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213172

This is a good result for my APPL shares, but OTOH I just got an iPhone this week, and whilst there are some nice aspects about it, I am annoyed / disappointed that some aspects of it are woefully worse than my previous crappy Android phone and there is no way round these via apps from the app store. Can you be specific about the "some aspects"? And, since you just got the phone this week, don't you think it is early to pass judgement? Case in point. I have a colleague who has had an iPhone for almost a year now and we happen to be talking about the Apple court case yesterday. He mentioned that he had seen a new Samsung with a bigger screen that looked pretty nice. I told him a bigger screen would be nice for video. He said he wanted to bigger screen to make it easier to text his daughter and had trouble typing messages. I asked him if he knew that he could turn the phone sideways to make the key pad bigger. He didn't. Then, I showed him that he could just speak his messages as well as his email, notes, etc. He was dumbfounded. I guess my point is, as easy as an iPhone is to use, most people (including my wife) don't realize all of the things that the iPhone can do.