iPhone

People either love or hate iPods, and by extension the iPhone. I myself am a big fan, although i dislike the mini, and the 2G nanos. In all likelihood, I will get one the moment they come out in Australia, preferably without being confined to a single phone company.

This isn't to say that the iPhone is perfect. It isn't. The thing is expensive, coming in at US$500. Thats very expensive indeed. It can only accept programs written by Microsoft, it lacks a memory card slot, its 2.5G's! That's not nearly enough G's!

Everybody remember how their iPods batteries went flat? And we all hacked the backs off to change the batteries with commercially available batteries that worked just as well? And Apple said the whole point was to keep the form factor. You could buy them in a store for much less than the US$79 figure Apple wanted. Well, they did it again. Maybe it's a different battery. Frankly, I don't care. The batteries should be user replaceable or affordable. Some of the people who bought these products had to save. Simply the starting expense of these Apple products is not an excuse for high prices.

So come on Apple. Give us some credit.