Today I have listened to the 138th episode of the Engadget Podcast. I have been listening to the podcast, and actually enjoying it since I have noticed that I have been spending too much time sifting through various RSS feeds a few months ago. I have deleted much of my RSS feeds, and switched to the podcasts so that I could listen to them while driving.

This last episode, however, was a complete symphony of whining. They did not stop for almost an hour and talked about how Dell Adamo was meaningless, and how iPhone OS 3.0 was mostly catch-up with the other contenders in the smartphone arena.

Well, unfortunately guys, this is how Apple operates. They do stuff, and they do it very differently from the other people. They are for people who think different literally. Besides the good looks, shiny finish and elegance their stuff is really cool technically. And you know that.

Don’t get me wrong. I don’t want an Apple fanboy podcast from the Engadget and I am sure you won’t be that way even I tried hard for the last 5 centuries or so. Also, I am not an Apple fan myself. But the recent trend in Apple anti-fanboyism is just bad as the other.

Yes, even the MacBook Pro has its own set of problems wrt the OS, like lacking a real Office suite (that is one of the thing MS has been doing the best). So it is quite obvious and expected that the two year old iPhone platform has its own set of problems. But that is not copy-paste, not MMS. And with the new push-notifications, peer-to-peer connection and custom interfaces over bluetooth and the data connector things are just looking better and better.

PS: I have rumors on a qwerty keyboard for the new generation iPhone. I am not sure they will add even one button, let alone one for each letter in the alphabet and everything that comes with it…