Background processes is over rated. I used to use nothing except for BlackBerry devices and hated how my battery took a dive just because jivetalk was running in the background. Or the fact I had to restart it manually when I had to do a battery pull. I have an iPhone now, and I can run as many of those kinds of programs as I want and have them all notify me WITHOUT killing my battery because they aren't running. On a BB if I wanted to run multiple programs I would have to suffer constant battery drain. I wish BB would implement some sort of push system like iPhone has so I can keep jivetalk and other programs out of the background, while still getting messages. And no ... having them send an SMS text message or email is not the same. That just gives me the extra task of having to manually remove email or messages in ADDITION to the chat in the program. And if you get lots of messages ... it is tedious.

The ONLY real advantage of background apps compared to iphone push for everything is the fact on a BB I can listed to Pandora while writing messages.

LOL I was thinking the same thing myself. Either he has really bad eyes, poor ability to differentiate objects in an image, or just plain worships monstrous murderers wearing masks. Nothing against people worshiping murderers. It's just not my thing. :P

No. The commercial is a Christmas one, and the land of toys only fits the season. I saw absolutely no insults against iPhone as a device. And there was even a few positive mentions in there. Lots of people love the iPhone because of all the apps ... me included. And that commercial enforces the fact iPhone has a lot of apps, which is what Apple is using as a selling point in their commercials. Why would they bash iPhone by putting it in the land of toys, then clearly enforce a huge selling point made in the Apple commercials? I think you are reading too much into it.

This was a blow to 3G coverage, nothing more. Land of toys is a seasonal prop for a humorous delivery.

@Thomas
Actually, Droid DOES have Verizon customization. It has the Verizon logo. I can't see Verizon allowing a phone without ANY customization ... and this includes a brand on the phones they subsidize. Apple, being very critical about their image, will not allow any branding of any kind. My AT&T iPhone 3Gs has NOTHING on it letting you know it was sold on AT&T.

I think that just because exclusivity is over and Verizon COULD sell it ... they wont. All because Apple won't allow the Verizon logo on it, and VZW is too stubborn to let the device go without their mark. And I don't blame Apple. If I had a product I was proud of, image was important, and there are enough customers I can turn down your business without it effecting me ... I would drop you like a rock.

@Definitely Not
Wow. You are poking fun of a misspelled word, yet you somehow think comprehension and spelling skills are somehow synonymous? I think that before you knock someone for spelling, you should look up the difference between comprehension and spelling skill, and realize that people can have excellent comprehension, yet crappy spelling. You ... apparently, are one with crappy comprehension and good spelling ability. :)

It's funny how the comprehention skills of some readers are lower than my 12 year old sons. This was not a shot against iPhone. The entire thing was against the 3G coverage. The iPhone was just a recognizable prop for a humorous delivery of the sparse 3G map.

I just asked my son what the commercial was about, because they are doing this wiu reading comprehention on school. He said it was about the map because he frowned after the bubble appeared and everyone else reacted.

This isn't even an anti iPhone ad. The other toys ask why he is here and says a couple of positive things about iPhone. Never a genative. The iPhone in the ad spits out a sparse 3G coverage map in reply. That is a shot against AT&T. The coverage map has absolutely NOTHING to do with the iPhone.

You can't really change the connecter on iPods and iPhones. It would end up pissing people off more than make them happy. One of the reasons people stick with iPods is the fact they have many accessories they have spent money on. LOTS of cars have built in iPod connectors, stereo systems have iPod connectors, boom boxes where I slap my iPod on the built in connector. TONS of things use that connector. And no, you can't exactly say "just make all those devices with USB and it will all be compatible." No, they won't. It will cause more trouble as people plug in their devices and the remote control features won't work because it doesn't know how to work with your device. The brilliant thing about iPods is they all have the same connector AND the same control interface so manufacturers can make things that can control your device .. AND IT WILL WORK.