The iPhone is a damn pain in the ass.

Recently, I've come across several nifty little apps that come in both android and iphone versions; the idea being that I can say, create a grocery list that can be added to and edited by an iphone user. This is helpful, because it means my daughter can add things to my list in real time. Especially since I do the majority of the grocery shopping while she's in school. Yay, right? Only here's the thing: adding apps to the iphone is often a long, drawn out process. First, I have to open itunes, which my computer *fucking hates* - as in, itunes often crashes. I have a disturbingly large music and video collection, like 100 gb (you'd be truly amazed at the number of free song promotions you can use, if you're willing to invest the time) so it takes roughly five billion years to load under the best circumstances. Then, as I said before, it often crashes...

Step two is locating the app I want in a sea of irrelevant and pricey apps in itunes, since the free ones are often hidden, if they exist at all (most FREE android apps ARE NOT FREE in itunes).

Step three is making sure the app is backward compatible (that is, installable and runnable on an unlocked and jailbroken iphone 3g updated to ios 4 - don't get me started on the functionality of that one), and waiting for it to download. As I said, my computer does not play well with itunes (or any other apple product, of course). So even though I have high speed access (for distance edu, mind you), the download takes FOREVER.

Then, I get to coax my computer AND itunes into recognizing the iphone (which SHOULD be easy, but never is).

The final major step is the waiting about a million years for itunes to trickle the data over the itty bitty firewire (the only one the damn iphone will accept, since its proprietary). And then coaxing the system into releasing the iphone.

You know, I know I'm a but spoiled by my G2, but jesus... All in all, the process usually takes nearly an hour, if not LONGER.

So, I'm not much a fan of apple these days. I like the fact that I can practically magically add any damn app I want to my phone in SECONDS. EAT THAT IPHONE!

Posted via my G2. That's right bitches.