Some of the iPhone negatives
Here are more negatives to add on the ones listed at gizmodo.com:
Just as any other Apple product, it’s locked to iTunes, it doesn’t support full DVD quality DivX, XviD, Mpeg2, WMV, AC3, vbr-mp3, RM, Mpeg1, Ogg Theora, GVI.. It only synchs through iTunes, forget about copying some files from a random computer that doesn’t have iTunes installed. No TV-out, no TV-in.
The iPhone being sold in the USA is also locked on an outdated 2G data service plan and Americans are thus forced by law to continue paying for that data service for two years. Minimum price is 2000$ in all. Even if there are 3G, WiMax alternatives already available or imminent, every iPhone owner is forced to stay on a crappy data service network and are forced to keep paying for EDGE for two years even if one quickly gets tired of such a slow bandwidth (after like 5 minutes of browsing on EDGE speed you get sick of it and probably won’t like to do it again ever) Thus this is gonna be just an expensive WiFi browser with an EDGE service plan nobody needs but are forced to pay for.
Also it’s locked so users cannot do VOIP on the iPhone, nor IM and bad Javascript support means a lot of Web 2.0 apps are never going to work on the iPhone.