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Smartphones: The Mobile Industry Is About to Get 'Blown Apart'

Oh sure, the rocker switch and mute switch work fine within their capabilities. The rocker switch does not produce high enough volume for a person with less than very good hearing or when located in noisy areas. There are some hacker supposed solutions but none I can get to work. Oh well. It's still smart to be long Apple.


On May 19 12:11 PM lovethelanguage wrote:

> @O'Kane: can't increase the ringer volume on the iPhone? As in,
> w/the big rocker switch on the side, next to the physical (thank
> you, Apple!) ringer mute switch?
>
> Omissions from my earlier post; thanks for the reminders:
>
> - agree, it's way more than a phone
> - the podcast ease of use has turned out to be unexpectedly huge
> for me
> - I'm long AAPL w/no plans to change soon

Smartphones: The Mobile Industry Is About to Get 'Blown Apart'

Charts, graphs, statistics, analyses and conclusions all tidy and laboratory clean. Nowhere do I see any mention of quality, flexibility or control. All the doodads are great when they work. If there is no telephone reception the best phone is useless. Pokey connection speed is an anathema. If one can't operate two screens at one time we aren't flexible. If, as with an iPhone, one can't even increase the ringer volume then there is no control. It boils down to quality of design, standards and execution. The mobile industry will not get it right until they get past their almost sacerdotal reverence for prettiness and sheer number of features regardless of quality.
O'Kane