The new Apple iPhone: Probably the most popular and well-known product around in today’s market. What will cause an ongoing problem with the iPhone; both the old model as well as the latest offering, is the buggy software platform developed by Apple which is currently being used as an operating system in all Apple iPhones.

Although many people swear by the iPhone and think it’s the greatest thing since sliced bread; there is a better product out there; and one which Apple both fear and beat into submission by gazumping the market with an early release, causing a buggy and underdeveloped platform to be issued to users ahead of the intended release date.

I discovered this fact today in the strangest and most unexpected of ways: The story goes like this:-

Today I went to town to buy a few things and tie up a few loose ends: It was a sweltering hot day with broken cloud and extremely high humidity. I so longed to be back in my air-conditioned office with a cool breeze from the fan; but right now I had several carrier bags tied to my handbag and was trapsing through the hot streets toward the chemist’s (Pharmacy). As I sat on the waiting bench in the shop in lieu of my prescription being assembled I thought I’d try out my new mobile device on the wi-fi hotspot nearby by posting to Twitter: That was easier said than done. I got through and was told that I was on a 30-minute session and that I had to sign up to The Cloud via McDonald’s which was where the nearest hotspot was located. This I did and was then shown hundreds of screens giving information on The Cloud. I emerged from the maze confused and bewildered to a web browser sponsored by McDonald’s that required me to log in again and provide loads of personal information, fill out a survey regarding my customer experience with McDonald’s, and give my impressions of their internet service. Having answered everything with the word “crap” I was sent back to The Cloud’s index page: Nowhere could I find a decent web browser and I just gave up.

Later on; sweating like a pig in the humidity and heat, whilst laden with carrier bags I made it to a taxi-rank and got into a taxi cab. Somehow I got talking to the driver about the Apple iPhone. I explained that I was a blogger and that I’d written an article or two about the iPhone; particularly regarding the buggy platform software that Apple had issued as an operating system, and although people were trying to blame the App developers for the failure of the software from the App store; it was the fault of Apple themselves. It was at this point that that the driver gave me the scoop:-

Evidently his brother-in-law was a manager at Apple and had revealed that Apple had rushed the platform development through to be out ahead of the release of the LG Viewty (Pictured above.)

 http://viewty.lgmobile.com/uk/ 

- A MUCH BETTER cameraphone with software that works properly and which would have wiped the floor with Apple.

In order to get their inferior product into full sale ahead of a decent much more user-friendly and higher-quality competitive product, Apple employed some dirty tricks at the expense of both customers and quality.

http://reviews.cnet.co.uk/mobiles/0,39030107,49292601,00.htm 

http://www.mobile-phones-uk.org.uk/lg-viewty-ku990.htm

Had Apple not been such a big name, and had they waited until their platform was properly de-bugged, the LG Viewty would have been incredible and quality competition against the iPhone: It’s similar-looking, more functional, and runs totally bug-less software. In the dog-eat-dog world of business however it’s no longer the better product that makes it; rather it’s the better-known producer with the snidiest tactics that gets the top spot regardless of the product.

So it is with (Cr)Apple: Dirty tricks and concentration on sales volume rather than customer satisfaction – The mark of greedy Steve Jobs, who somehow manages to sell a load of bad jobs for a fortune. Hola cowboy!

Just a cotton-pickin’ Apple-pushin’ gazumping cowboy. Yee-haah!