Are Apple really that good?

I've just started a new year of college today so this is a late blog and since there's nothing going much in the tech world, i'm going to have a rant about my iPhone 3G.

I was using my iPhone 3G last week and i actually thought it was dead, since it has no power button or any physical button available, the only way i'm able to turn my device on is using the headphone jack, I've gone into the internals of the phone and made it so when you plug an earphone jack into the port, it boots up the device, and then it turns on the display when its turned off. it's not the best iPhone ever, if you press the screen, the display flickers and displays a spectrum of colours, If you lift your finger off, you can see what you're doing but as soon as you touch it, it flickers so games are completely useless. That gets me on my next subject, if i'm playing games or browsing the internet, after about 5 minutes after doing these tasks, the device locks and it gives the warning screen, "the device needs to cool down before use". The battery life as well is absolutely low, if i leave the screen on constantly, the device runs out of battery in about 2/3 hours. When i used to use it as a phone, when it was enabled on 3G, the battery percentage when down by 1% every 20 seconds and so there's not much battery life when using it as a phone. The charger port at the bottom of the device is dodgy as well, if you want to charge it up, you've got to use a clamp so you can connect all the pins together and it's much harder to achieve connectivity with the computer so i can transfer music via iTunes. I think it's safe to say i need a new iPod. I've got an iPhone 3GS that's just collecting dust in my room and when iOS 6 comes out of beta and available to download for the general public. If it fixes the battery life problem i've had with the iPhone 3GS running iOS 5.1.1, i'll be using that as an iPod and i'll be selling my iPhone 3G (if i can sell it).

Using activator with a jailbreak tweak, where you can assign, swipe gestures to open apps, or reveal the notification centre, there's a lot of tasks you can perform with activator. Using activator actions, i've assigned a long press on the volume up button to go to the next track and volume down for previous track so you don't need to activate the screen, double tap the home button so it brings up the iPod controls, and then you can switch the song, you can just do in your pocket, But since the volume buttons have disappears, i've had to sink my teeth onto the volume up button every time i've wanted to switch a song or when that doesn't work, pull out the earphone jack and put it back in so it activates the screen and then switch the song.

This is also my first Blog solely created on my Macbook Pro, Yes this is the same mac that i got for my birthday on the 21st July, I've had problems with it, like it's been overheating doing virtually nothing and also some of the keys on the keyboard stopped working like the space bar and the backspace bar, and they are the most used keys on the keyboard, so without those keyboard, it rendered the mac useless.

Thanks for reading. This has been my proper rant for quite a bit now, With the problems i've encountered with apple products, i've lost a little bit of faith on apple products but still for these two weeks and these two weeks only, i'm an Apple fanboy.