Apple has always implicitly (and sometimes explicitly) asserted you should use their products because they’re better than the competition in the ways that matter to users. Apple’s products frequently don’t win on a feature-by-feature comparison, to which Apple fans tend to reply that sealed batteries have turned out to be not so bad in practice, that we can actually find all the software we want for our iOS devices no matter how philosophically objectionable the App Store is, and that we really don’t care that the iPad has no USB port and that the iPhone cannot be used as a wifi hotspot, HD projector and five-speed blender. There is a large subset of tech users who go into apoplectic fits at that, seeing it as proof that we’re brainwashed morons. So be it.
Brilliantly put.
That fact that people are taking this personally is ridiculous. It’s a damn phone, which works fine. Works great in my experience. They will give you a free case if you want it. If it doesn’t work where you live, don’t buy it, or take it back.
One final note. Dear tech pundits, Get a life. Spend some energy about something that matters, like the oil spill in the Gulf.