iPhone is unstable and lack features. Why?

My friend Steve had a Samsung music player. I had a Sony music player. We both agreed that they are both horrible products compared to the iPod. The device interface was horrible and their desktop software was buggy and looked like some programmer who took C++ 101 put it together. I went through 2 Sony players and both crashed using their own software.

My comment which Steve shared was "It's not like there isn't a successful product (like an iPod) already in the market that they can just look at to see what they have to build to. How can they release something of so poor quality and expect to compete?" Do they think that because they are successful CE companies that anything they can produce can out-compete Apple, a computer company?

So now we fast -forward to 2008 and I wonder if Apple is making the same mistake. Because Apple has been so successful with the iPod, did they simply think they can build a better phone than Nokia and Blackberry?

Don't get me wrong. I think the iPhone is a very nice, feature rich device. It is innovative in design and in how they combined the iPod, the phone and a full featured browser.

But after experiencing all the bugs and all the missing features, did Apple seriously analyse what makes Blackberry a Crackberry? And why Nokia has #1 market position in the world? These guys set the bar and why couldn't Apple match and then go beyond to truly make a world-class device? I just wonder if Apple just rushed the 3G to market before it was really ready.

Recent security flaws (including the one I reported to Apple),
3G issues,
no cut and paste,
MobileMe's launch issues and weak feature set,
No real Push (how can a company like Apple make such a claim and have to retract it?)
3rd party app issues,
sub-par battery life,
inability to tether (I still don't understand this one),
inability to unlock for international travel,
and prob dozens of common features found on Blackberry and Nokia.

I really want to like my iPhone and hope they will release some big fixes soon. But if I was to do a iPhone vs Blackberry comparison, Blackberry comes to the top when it comes getting the rock solid device to market. iPhone is starting resemble the PC in Apple's PC vs. Mac commercials.