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Link returned a 404 error for me? - asiriusgeek

Same here - borked link - metaverseoz

Good post Dave. While I love many of the iPhone features I still don't like the closed platform, short non-replaceable batter, and single carrier aspects of the product. Seeing people stand in line like sheep just amazes me, but it's their right to be able to get one and run home to show off to their friends, or perhaps to be part of the 'in' crowd. - Jim McCusker

Fake Steve Jobs prescient answer:http://tinyurl.com/ytfk68 Don't like walled gardens? Have fun w/ OpenMoko or waiting for Android - Steve Weis

Jim, not to be a fanboy, but to say the iPhone isn't the best phone on the market is misleading. I don't get camping out for a phone, but in a world of walled gardens and not, when the walled garden is the only good thing on the market, you bet that is where people will go. I would love to see carriers open up networks and platforms, but barring that, having one cell phone that doesn't suck is still a step forward. As in most things, "It works" beats out ideals in head to head competition every time. - Robert Cooper from twhirl

The iPhone is good - but it is not the best phone on the market for many people - and for many uses. It simply lacks a number of features that a lot of folks use on their phones every single day. No tethering, no MMS, no stereo bluetooth, no background processing for 3rd party apps, no copy / paste, no Java, no flash, no turn by turn gps, no tether to third party gps receiver for car use, no removable memory, no ability to swap for a spare battery. As a smartphone it is feature poor. - Soulhuntre

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Dont get me wrong, what it does do it often does brilliantly, but for peopel who need the features entirely lacks it doesn't work at all. - Soulhuntre

@Robert, the iPhone definitely has major differentiators from any other phone on the market. But the fundamentals of being a phone, like battery life & carrier choices, reception and sound quality are definite negatives that have been noted. For anyone who doesn't care about those issues the iPhone is by far the best. I personally think Apple can and will do better in future releases. - Jim McCusker

That's gold ;) - metaverseoz

That's one of the funniest things I've ever read :P - Sean Dunn

This is hilarious. Probably could be more obtuse (and a lot longer) to get the full effect. - Todd McKinney

Whoever controls the ability to exert veiled mind-control through pontification controls the strategic high-ground of meme distribution. That is why there is a dangerous nexus of power between TinyURL and Steve Gillmor. - Elliott Ng

well done, sir. - Jim Is Not Smart from twhirl

That was great! Something tells me that this will not get a "like" from Gilmor. - Michael Carter

Outstanding Duncan! That is first rate. - Hutch Carpenter

When I saw the title, I was grumpily thinking, oh no, not another [x] is better than [y] piece o' crap... but then I realized it was a parody and quite an entertaining one at that. Still, a little *too* intelligible. Work on making it more pompously obscure, please :) - Adam Lasnik

LOL. You should conclude each of these with http://heresabunnywithapancakeonitshead.com/ - Ryan Kuder

Its like comparing IceCream and Sugar. They both are sweet but serve very different purpose. - Vic Podcaster

On second thought, Friendfeed is piggyback riding on Twitter - while it is not true other way round. - Vic Podcaster

Vic, this is Steve Gillmor we're talking about, it's like comparing rice cakes to Jimmy Carter :-) - Duncan Riley

How to improve the writing style in one word: shrooms. - jeezler

@Vic While that may have been true initially, I think that Friendfeed is now capable of continuing to thrive even if twitter were to die. Friendfeed "share something" messages are, in essence, tweets after all. I've certainly seen people using them in that way, at least. The only reason I still use twitter at all is because I like to aggregate each day's tweets at my blog, like a... more... - David Adam

With Twitter i keep thinking someone has SMSed me. Then I find it's just some random twitter contact of mine ;-) - William Stewart

if you say so - Noah David Simon