I Need to Vent!

Sameer Puri

14 years ago

I'm about to come out of the closet and admit it. Many of you heard my horror story about how I waited in line almost six hours to get my new iPhone on the day it was released. Mind you, that's not what was planned. It was just that I had reserved it, and I thought I would just show up at the Apple store, they would honor my reservation and I'd be out in 15 minutes, tops. Well, apparently about 500 other people had the same idea. So there I am at 7:00 a.m., thinking I'd be first in line, and whoops, there is already a long line. Well, I had the day off; I grabbed my laptop from my car and decided to wait it out. I figured instead of 15 minutes, it would take an hour or so. Well, that hour turned into two hours and by then, it was too late to turn back and waste that morning, so I slugged it out. Bottom line is that six hours later, I had my new iPhone 4. Time for joy? Initially, yes. The phone was fast and the screen was great. Everything was dandy, until you actually had to make a phone call. Holy cow, the worst frigging phone I've ever used. It's one thing to drop a call, but multiple dropped calls a day??? And yes, I've had the stupid bumper from the very beginning, so Apple can't blame me for that. Great 'device' but a crappy phone. And don't even get me started on the iPad. At least I didn't wait in line for that thing. I'll share that story another time, but basically, iPhone sucks. Back when it first came out, the iPhone was the only game in town. Today, with so many great choices for mobile devices, if Apple doesn't clear up the call issue, I'm afraid it may be time to switch. This is coming from someone who is all in on Apple, iPad, iMac, MacBook Pro, etc., etc., etc. Get your act together, Apple. The competition is catching up!!!!