Here, presented for your amusement, are just some of the iPhone whines I have had to deal with from my clients over the last few years (ignoring battery life) listed almost word for word as they were spoken: 
1. here's my iPhone on O2, here's my iPad on O2, here's my HTC HD7 on O2, why the @*&# do the iPad and HTC have full signal strength and the iPhone has one sodding bar that regularly drops to nothing ?
2. what do you mean if I hold the phone like that it will drop my call ?
3. what do you mean Apple suggest I use a rubber bumper to boost the phone's crappy signal ?
4. what do you mean I can't use a personalised ring tone unless I hack the phone ?
5. what do you mean the iPhone (through iTunes) is one way synchronise only ?
6. what do you mean I can't explore the iPhone in Windows and simply drag and drop files and music ?
7. what do you mean it doesn't, in fact, offer the native support for Exchange it said it did ?
8. what do you mean Apple suggest I update the phone because the alarm didn't work from January this year ?
9. what do you mean I now have 7 copies of each contact in my Exchange contacts list because I updated either (or both) iTunes and/or iPhone software, like Apple said I should ?
And lastly, my overall favourite, from the MD of a very prominent company which was said with great vigour, beet red colouring, bulging eyes and quite simply, was:
"WHAT !?!?!"
I really like the idea of the iPhone. I just don't like the reality, but you have to hand it to Apple; they can market and sell absolutely anything. The iPhone is proof of that, and I now quite a few agents who are refusing to handle them due to their various 'idiosyncrasies'.

1. here's my iPhone on O2, here's my iPad on O2, here's my HTC HD7 on O2, why the @*&# do the iPad and HTC have full signal strength and the iPhone has one sodding bar that regularly drops to nothing ?
2. what do you mean if I hold the phone like that it will drop my call ?
3. what do you mean Apple suggest I use a rubber bumper to boost the phone's crappy signal ?
4. what do you mean I can't use a personalised ring tone unless I hack the phone ?
5. what do you mean the iPhone (through iTunes) is one way synchronise only ?
6. what do you mean I can't explore the iPhone in Windows and simply drag and drop files and music ?
7. what do you mean it doesn't, in fact, offer the native support for Exchange it said it did ?
8. what do you mean Apple suggest I update the phone because the alarm didn't work from January this year ?
9. what do you mean I now have 7 copies of each contact in my Exchange contacts list because I updated either (or both) iTunes and/or iPhone software, like Apple said I should ?
And lastly, my overall favourite, from the MD of a very prominent company which was said with great vigour, beet red colouring, bulging eyes and quite simply, was:
"WHAT !?!?!"
I really like the idea of the iPhone. I just don't like the reality, but you have to hand it to Apple; they can market and sell absolutely anything. The iPhone is proof of that, and I now quite a few agents who are refusing to handle them due to their various 'idiosyncrasies'.
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