* Posts by Matt Robinson

2 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Jul 2007

Harry Potter and the Virus of Doom

Matt Robinson

Not so rich?

Something tells me Harry might have trouble getting to his mountain of gold after his last visit to Gringotts.

Apple emasculates the iPhone

Matt Robinson

That sounds like a good idea

I'd love to leave my phone plugged into the sound-system at a party. That way everyone will know when I get a text message, and they won't mind at all when I stop the music to answer a call.

Regardless of whether the ranty mac-fans agree with you or not on whether these drawbacks exist or are easily surmountable, I can't imagine that they make the device as appallingly bad as you make out. I mean, it still plays music and does phone calls, which (for a device combining mp3 player and phone) sounds pretty well-hung to me.

As for playing music to your friends being perfectly legal, the record labels will get around to fixing that loophole soon enough.