Strand Consult to iPhone users: You're delusional and a big, fat liar too

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Ohh man, it's like having to deal with Bible belt christians listening and reading the comments of these Iphone-believers. As an old Ad-man, I must take the hat of for Apple, in how they have been able to tune into the chords of religious whackos to get them to use the Iphones... Really: it's just a funny little toy, that has been build to work as a multimediaplayer, that works lousily as a phone. Comparing it with my old Nokia Communicator is a laugh, because I used all the REAL apps that I needed allready 5 years ago.. Calendar, Mail, ( synchronized, those are, of course) Word, Excel, Powerpoints, GPS-location, it has all been there for ages. Of course Apple has reinvented the wheel again taking the touch-screen into use, as the Palms have had for the last ten years, but really, who the F*** wants to use pushing a screen, when the keyboard has been invented??? I simply cannot comprehend..

@Dogzilla: Except that iPhone isn't actually a smartphone. Multitasking is one of the basic features of smartphones and even the newest iPhone can't handle that, as far as I know.

One thing that bugs me about iPhone and all other phones without a real keypad/keyboard is that you cannot really type with it without looking at your fingers, like you can when typing on a computer or on a real keypad/keyboard of a phone.

@daniel

Dan could probably use the iPhone's maps and GPS to find the 3 nearest cliffs to jump from.

The funny thing is, I love my iPhone. I really can't imagine being without one and I don't really give a crap about persuading someone to buy one. I don't really give a crap what you use, it doesn't matter to me. All that matters is that I LOVE my iPhone and that's all I need...

My wife has a non-jailbroken iPhone purchased in Thailand. I have a regular non-smart phone. We both use T-Mobile for our phone service. Holding the phones side-by-side my piece of crap phone gets two more "bars" than the iPhone does. Or when I have two bars the wife shows no service.

The wife loves her iPhone and I love my iPod Touch. In the short time these have been out the apps for them have matured very quickly. But as a phone, the iPhone needs a better antenna or whatever gives it weaker reception than other phones.

As a Dane, I'd like to add some additional comments to this story.

Strand Consulting (owned by John Strand), is a self-declared mobile market expert in Denmark. He does some consulting for primarily the largest teleproviders in Denmark, but apart from that, he's basically never really right when he makes statements regarding the market (Especially statements that actually contain numbers that he may be proven wrong on, so he tries to avoid those).

He's been anti-Apple since the first rumors of the iPhone appeared online, claiming that Apple would never sell the thing, because it basically wouldn't have all the bells and whistles of the competitors. As he's been proven wrong about his anti-iPhone statements a lot of times during the last couple of years, I believe he just gets more frustrated and angry at Apple's success. And in general, when he's quoted in danish media, he always looks purely at the number of features in the phones, and not the actual usability and appeal to the public.

I really consider him to be the danish version of a John C. Dvorak. A grumpy guy who doesn't really like change, and who primarily looks at everything through "Well-this-has-a-higher-number-so-it's-better-glasses", and who will go to great lengths to achieve media attention (Primarily by acting in a provocative manner).

I usually just get a laugh at his statements, and then I have tears in my eyes thinking of the fact that some of the danish media actually use him as a serious expert ;)

Well my question is why does it needs the authority, i don't they actually do these thing in reality.Thanks for sharing this with us.

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Why does this remind of me the comic book guy on the Simpsons?

Once again, I have to ask why it bothers people which phone or computer I use? I quit reading the paper once it became obvious the author was engaging in a hasty generalization.

I like the iPhone, I like the App Store. I choose to spend my money there, just like some people enjoy spending their money on sports paraphernalia. Big deal.