[Jeff Song]

Originally Posted by alese

Could not agree more, but...
I also understand and agree with Raphael.
The problem here is not so much that every man made thing/device is not perfect, the problem is that too many devices, especially mobile devices are manufactured and sold to users with, to put it mildly questionable decisions (features).
Stuff like 32 Mb RAM in Treo, strange connectors, missing features (A2DP) and most of all rushed ROM images full of bugs really give the impression that if you buy early device, you are going to pay the manufacturer to be it's beta tester.
Like many of you here I would not mind to beta test stuff, if I would get something in return, but when I buy 500+ EUR device I would expect it to work wihout waiting for ROM update...

I agree that palm giving users only 32mb (and only 15 free) was a complete mistake on its part that should have never happened.

But things like A2DP - well this usually isn't advertised and its more or less a nice feature to have for some, but most users probably won't take advantage of it anyways. Now of course it would be great for us if every company just adopted the use of miniUSB plugs for everything, but then companies wouldn't have anything left to sell to us, and you know that they make a lot of money on accessories. Also, there are usually reasons for the choices these companies make - the 200mhz processor in the wizard/prophet for example, was used to give better battery life. As I was saying, a device that is perfect to you might be quite the opposite for me - as companies are trying to appeal to a broad market and trying to make a profit, we as consumers/end users have to get used to the lack of some features (or design flaws) until we're in a position to change them.