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Listed below are comments made by neilhoskins between Tuesday, 31st March 2009 and Thursday, 11th June 2009.

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Video: BBCiPlayer on N95 2:11pm on 11 Jun 2009 Without the ability to download it's useless.
Mobile Day: 8.32 a.m. 2:05pm on 11 Jun 2009 I don't see any 'download' links, so it's streaming only, which defeats the object (if I'm at home on WiFi I may as well watch on the Wii or PC). It's really only taken N95 owners back to earlier versions, before you blocked us because we can't be trusted not to run up huge bills and need you to hold our hands for us. The live streams would be good if they worked, but don't seem to go through firewalls too well (not at all here, actually).
Apple - angering the fans? 12:22pm on 09 Jun 2009 For a while there, this was almost a tech blog. However, you've now gone back to being a fanboy blog*, with four out of the last seven posts being Apple-related. I no longer see any point in the RSS feed taking up valuable resources in my browser.

*or possibly a cynical, tabloid, fanboy vs anti-fanboy rabble-rousing blog
Growing appetite for mobile data 1:36pm on 15 May 2009 We could have been in this position years ago, but the operators continued to charge stupid money for data and to try to restrict us to their rubbish walled gardens. The operators' greed continues unabated, as they sell dongles to the gullible public when a tethered 3G phone will do the job better.
How smart is Nokia? 11:19am on 20 Apr 2009 Yes, the N97 will find itself overshadowed by the iPhone because you will ensure that that happens. How much is Steve Jobs paying you?
BBC iPlayer now available on a toaster 12:47pm on 01 Apr 2009 Given the BBC's weird choice of devices to support with iPlayer, and their utterly bizarre decision to block the 5800 from downloading, this story is entirely plausible and therefore not a particularly funny April Fool's gag.
Is Skype on the iPhone a big deal? 3:42pm on 31 Mar 2009 @ neilephipps

... the slight difference being market share. In the case of PC's/Macs/Linux, they concentrated on the device that had the majority market share. In the case of iPhone/S60/WM they went straight for the device that had the smallest market share. When they did finally provide it for another make, it was for a euro-centric device (N96) that's unlikely ever to sell in any numbers in the UK because it's main raison d'être (DVB-H) is unlikely to be available any time in the next century. If ever. Say what? And now that the 5800 is selling like hot cakes, for some completely unexplained reason, they (the BBC) have removed from it the most important bit of iPlayer functionality (download for viewing later).

Honestly, I've tried very hard over the last two years to steer clear of iPhone-related over-hype, free publicity, and preferential treatment; and I learned not to feed trolls many years ago. But there are times when you just get SICK of it, especially when it comes from a publicly-funded organisation like the BBC. Judging from previous comments, even from happy iPhone owners, I'm not the only one.
Is Skype on the iPhone a big deal? 2:45pm on 31 Mar 2009 @cvan76

Duh... yes. Doesn't that rather prove the point? That the BBC favours that particular device?
Is Skype on the iPhone a big deal? 2:11pm on 31 Mar 2009 @greenstarthree

Don't start me on mobile iPlayer. They made it available for the half dozen iPhones in the country before any other device, but have just REMOVED the download option from the 5800, making it utterly pointless.
Is Skype on the iPhone a big deal? 08:12am on 31 Mar 2009 No. It's not. And I'm not even going to bother to read the feature. Nothing about the iPhone is a big deal except in the heads of the fanboys and the media that support them.

How about a feature on SIP on the N95?

Oooo... goody... a press release on the iPhone... I'll be able to write something about it on my blog. And it's a win-win because as well as the fanboys who want to read about it, there's the anti-fanboys who'll rant about the fanboys and the unbalanced coverage.

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