Just because you have extraordinarily low expectations for a phone doesn't mean the rest of us are stupid for deciding to stick with a smartphone with much more power.
Let em first say that I am a Treo user because I am in the "extraordinarily low" number of people who actually can justify using one. However, classifying an iPhone user as "having extraordinarily low expectations for a phone" is a gross misrepresentation.
Definition "Extraordinary": beyond what is ordinary or usual; highly unusual or exceptional or remarkable
The features of the i-phone are far more than what the "ordinary person", the "usual person" wants, needs or even dreams about for a "phone"....emphasis on the word "phone".
The iPhone is intended to do five main things:
1. Make phone calls
2. Provide Internet Access
3. Provide IPod features
4. Provide e-mail
5. Provide an easy to use interface for the above
The 1st it does as well as anyone, e-mail it does adequately and the other 3 it does, without question, a better job than anyone else.
What the IPhone also has done is give a big piece of the world a hard case of buyer's remorse. I'm talking about that forum active group who can never seem to stop playing with their gadget, who waste more time doing that in a week than any productivity gain they might realize over 10 years, looking to improve their social standing and get attention paid to them by running around "ooh look at my cool gadget" and thereby hoping some of the gadget coolness rubs off on them .... these people are now very disappointed when they are showing off their gadget now and getting "Yeah, but my friend has an iPhone" responses.....only recourse is to go back home, log on and blog up a storm.
It's akin to snobby Prius owners running around talking about saving the planet and their SUV friends responding "but can it carry 7 people" ? No it can't but if you're single or married with 2 kids of what significance is the 7 people argument.
No it don't do all the Treo can do but it does do a lot of things that the Treo does better. And you know what, Apple gives a poop about the Treo market. They current goal is 1% of the phone market and if they gave one free to every crackberry and Treo owner, they wouldn't get close to that.
It's not about whether the iPhone is as good as a Treo.....it's about the fact that there are some 70 million AT&T customers and there's what ?....maybe 300,000 of them are using a Treo ? Well AT&T now has 3 times as many people forking up $20 a month for a data plan on their iPhones than they do on their Treos.
I have 3 kids, a dog, a mountain bike rack, a boat, am a little league coach, and cubmaster and I am an engineer by trade requiring me to be on construction sites. You're in my shoes, where 4 wheel drive, towing capacity, room for construction equipment that never leaves the car is a "real" necessity, you buy a SUV, it makes a lot of sense.....but I can't walk around saying that people who only need to carry 2-4 people have "extraordinarily low expectations for a vehicle" ... the fact is the great majority of people don't have my needs. The great majority of people will be better served by a smaller, more fuel efficient vehicle.
You're a roofer and banging thousands of nails every day, yes that air nailer makes sense. But Joe Husband also doesn't have "extraordinarily low expectations for a nail banger", he just wants / needs a hammer...in fact he has very "ordinary", "usual", "common", "most popular" expectation for a nail banger. It is the roofer who has the "extraordinary" expectations but I'll bet when wifie puts the "hang a picture of mom in dining room" on his "Honey-Do List", he doesn't go out to the truck and start setting up his compressor.