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I’m looking forward to the first consumer reviews of the iPhone in the blogosphere this evening as people get home with their new phones. Lots of people are comparing it to phones that aren’t even in the same class saying how “bad” certain things are when they haven’t even used the iPhone.My only minor suggestions are.

1. Initially, don’t try and compare the iPhone to all the other existing phones out there. The iPhone is a completely unique device and should be “rated” on it’s own merits.
2. Before dismissing any specific feature, make sure that you haven’t overlooked anything.
3. READ THE MANUAL or use the online help to make sure you are doing everything “correctly”

Following these suggestions should ensure unnecessary posts about how bad this and that is and then people coming onto your blog saying “You need to do this thing first and then it’ll work…” type of comments. I just bought $4000 in Apple stock (AAPL) yesterday, so I’m hoping for a good return

(Obvious subliminal message: GO BUY AN iPHONE or 4!)

I have to give it to Apple… Shortly after releasing a beta of a browser that has never before been released on the Windows OS, an update came out that immediately fixed a major bug I had that I could find no one else experiencing.

Wow!

2 Thumbs up to Apple for a quick update!

I’ve installed the new Windows version of Apple’s Safari Web Browser on almost all my machines and it seems to run great, better and faster than Internet Exploder 7.0 and even faster or at least equal to Firefox, in some cases.

On my laptop though, I’ve encountered a graphical problem that I haven’t been able to find anyone else experience, most text, not text in images, but plain text seems to not display… I am running a Toshiba Qosmio with an nVidia 6600 GO video processor.  Here is a screenshot.

If anything else has experienced this, please leave a message…

I’ve been waiting for years for Apple to port over Safari to Windows, saying that doing so would perhaps, over time, persuade a person who was interested in Apple PCs to switch if they liked the software.  See excerpt from the press release…

ThinkEquity Partners analyst Jonathan Hoopes said Apple wants people to get a feel for how good its products are by using the browser on Windows. When they experience Apple’s “goodness,” Hoopes said they will feel encouraged to buy Macintosh computers.

iTunes went over quick because the success of the service depended upon it.  Now the PC version of Safari will make us users who love Mac feel better when we are forced to use PCs and the standard IE/Firefox combo at work.  I plan on looking to see how it is installed and see if I can get it to run off my thumbdrive.  “Portafari”.  I applaud Apple for finally doing this.  I’m sure perhaps they were waiting for the MacTel platform to stabilize so code porting would be minimal.  Guess it didn’t mac sense to port it from the original PPC version to x86.