I just ready an article that was written by a Windows user that has chosen not to switch to a Mac because of the problems he’s encountered with the iPhone 3G. His arguments against the iPhone is very warranted. I didn’t have a first generation iPhone and when I got my 3G, I was really excited, but still have been very frustrated with a lot of the little problems.

Calls drop all the time (although, I don’t think I’ve dropped more than 1 call since I updated to 2.0.2 almost a week ago). The GPS is flaky at times and takes it’s sweet time finding a signal. The 3G signal is spotty at best. The keyboard lag was a TERRIBLE inconvenience when I first got the phone (again, most of the lag there has been resolved for me with the 2 updates released).

I don’t blame him for being upset with how Apple has handled all of this. They bit off WAY more than they could chew when releasing the iPhone 2.0 software, App Store and MobileMe all at the same time. I would love to see an official statement by Apple that says “Hey, we screwed up, we’re very sorry but we hope to have all this resolved very soon”. Something like that.

All these things are very understandable and even a Mac user like myself is very frustrated with the bugs and how they are being handled. What I don’t get is his declaration that he does not wish to give a Mac a shot any more just because of a new software’s initial bugs.

I bought my MacBook Pro when MacOSX 10.4 Tiger was in it’s late stages. The bugs were pretty squashed at this time so I was very happy with it. I upgraded to leopard around Christmas time last year and was, again, very happy with the new OS but ran into some small bugs that annoyed me a little bit. These have been mostly fixed by now. Windows XP and Vista both had the same problems with they were released. Vista is still suffering.

The iPhone 2.0 software wasn’t a small update to the OS. As much as things look very much just like the 1.0 version, the update is a lot more like the upgrade from 10.4 to 10.5 in MacOSX. Bugs are almost guaranteed. It sucks that most of the bugs showed up in the most frustrating places but the phone has been out for a month now and the 2 updates that have been released in this last month seem to have cleared up a lot of the major problems. With 2.1 just around the corner, I can comfortably assume that all the major bugs will be gone and there will be Apple nirvana again in my life.

So with that, Mr. Adam Frucci, I implore you to still give an Apple laptop a shot. The Operating system has been around a while and has been quite perfected. Apple computers really do ‘just work’ just like the iPhone 3G will ‘just work’ in the very near future. So give it ago! Like you said already, do you really want to move to Vista? Blech!