Of Apple, iPhone & The Truth
My friends are well aware of my love for Apple & it’s products, yeah it’s intense! Dad recently paid $600 (~29,640 INR) for the Jesus phone aka iPhone. Before owning the iPhone there were things that I didn’t know about it and honestly things that quite surprised me considering it was an Apple product. I was gifted an iPod, though no matter how it has helped me, I still find it behind the Zune. Coming to some facts that no one will tell you about the iPhone –
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After-sales Service:
The day dad bought it I read a tweet wherein Vodafone asked for 13,000 INR to fix up a fallen Sleep button, still under warranty; whatever that is. 13k for fixing a God damn button! Now, this is when I was enlightened to that, for the iPhone it’s NOT Apple that provides you after-sales service, it’s the stupid operator. Without getting into how retarded the guys at the operator help-desk are, it is surprising that Apple has out-sourced ‘collection’ of crapped up iPhones.
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The Contents:
A pair of ear-phones, wall-charger & a USB cable. I got the ear-phones & the USB cable with the iPod too and this when I realized 2 things:
USB Cable: Take a look at these images,
| The iPod cable | The iPhone cable |
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There is an Apple logo on the USB end, which is not on the the cable provided with the iPhone.
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The other end is bigger with press-buttons to release, which again is not on the iPhone cable. Here is the thing, the iPhone cable is stupid; I got to friggin’ wrestle with it to release the iPhone.
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The 2 pieces on the top – covers for the 2 ends. Again, not with the iPhone.
Ear-phones:
Along with the iPod I got ear-phone covers, which look like this:
(Hey pervert, they are not condoms.)
I actually love these and surprise surprise, they ain’t shipped with the iPhone,
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The iPhone itself:
Take a look at the bottom end of the iPhone and you shall see 2 screws. This was a Holy Cow! moment. I searched all over the iPod and did not find a single screw starring at my face.
The battery is pathetic. It is horrible on the 3G. The damn thing doesn’t even run for 8 hours on a full charge with Wi-Fi off. Dad’s already fuming at the battery life.
Off course this post will be rubbished off by the Macboys as a rant, but they should sit back and think. The Apple logo on the cable, service not from Apple directly. Bad signs, Apple is losing it’s niche. Premium product, I don’t think so.
But hey it’s still a crApple product.
You know… there still are a lot of things that you will learn about the phone.
“Abhi toh sirf shuruvaat hain“
The after sales service reminds me of 3Uk where all the problems are sorted out by the operator and not the manufacturer. What the manufacturer does not know is they are damaging their brand by letting the operator handle their after sales service. samsung ,LG had so many problems in the UK.I hated it when the manufacturer said this is not our problem you have to talk to your service provider.
Excellent article ! thanks for sharing.
I still can’t believe the guy who’s famous as “the one who yelled iPhone sucks in on a YouTube video” actually bought an iPhone.
Newer hardwares doesn’t have the Apple logo and the 2 other differences that you pointed out. Nothing to do with iPhone.
@Ashwin that is why said, Apple’s losing it’s premium status IMO.
@Sathya :D
@Sam These companies don’t realize it or maybe they are jsut fine with it.
@Preshit :lol:
lol at comment #3 :p
There is such a thing as overbranding. Use the apple logo everywhere, and the brand loses its value.
The coveres for the USB cable, well, do you really use them? The extra plastic, which while nice to see initially is just something that will go down in history as a piece of junk left behind by us.
The iPod cable is an *improvement* over the earlier ones. All the new iPods feature it. Works well with the iPhone 1G, but I did find I had to struggle when it came to the 3G.
The after sales thing sounds really horrible. I can’t believe they’ve actually left you at the disposal of the carrier. FAIL! (that seems to be the latest word being thrown around)
I’ve not had any battery life issues, but then again, I’m not one to use the iPhone extensively all over the place (where no power supply is available). However, even if the bloody thing had 1 hour of battery life, I’d still go for it. No other phone compares.
Putting a logo on the 2 pieces of hardware that you give in the package does not constitute to over branding. The Apple logo on the USB cable did not come across as over branding as a matter of fact it actually makes the cable special.
The thing is such cables which look exactly the same are available in the market, but it as this logo that gave the Apple cable authenticity, which now it loses.
The first thing I asked Preshit was that does his cable have the logo ‘coz I feared I was duped.
I still have and use my plastic pieces for the higher purpose they are meant.
Also, iPod Touches don’t come with a Charger!!