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By Steve
I bought an iPhone. I feel dirty.
Addendum: Here’s my horrible iPhone purchasing story. I went by the nearest AT&T store on my way home after work last night, and at about 6:30 there were literally hundreds of people outside the store waiting. I didn’t want one that bad, so I went home.
I got up this morning and decided to just go to the Apple store. Sure enough, the lines were huge. And by huge I mean non-existent; I walked in, bought the thing, and walked out.
The only dorky thing about the phone is that the microphone plug is recessed, and most headphones with an angled plug won’t seat properly. So they offer “extensions” from Belkin, which is just retarded.
June 30th, 2007 at 9:04 pm
Nooooooooo!
You’ve got cooties now.
June 30th, 2007 at 9:08 pm
But they’re cooties of cool.
I can feel the black turtleneck-ness oozing from its screen.
June 30th, 2007 at 10:00 pm
Not cool, man. You move back out west and turn into one of those hipster doofuses in love with their gadgets. A cellphone. An iPhone. Next you’ll get a GPS system for your bike.
June 30th, 2007 at 10:16 pm
Wait, they have GPS systems specifically for bikes? I may have to head down to REI tomorrow!
(I might need a bike first, though.)
June 30th, 2007 at 10:25 pm
They must have them specially designed for bikes. Why not?
And if not, you can just put it in the basket up front.
June 30th, 2007 at 10:32 pm
Of course they do.
And add another $20-$30 to mount the thing. What a bargain!
July 1st, 2007 at 12:45 am
But do they have them for your Segway?
July 1st, 2007 at 1:44 am
Of course you get one when you buy a Segway.
July 1st, 2007 at 2:03 am
Frankly, I still don’t see any reason not to just carry a real laptop around. It would even be Windows based. =)
Phones are for talking. If you honestly can’t just borrow a cell phone from the nearest passerby, why not just get the oldest one you can still find that makes calls? If I ever have to get one, I’m finding the most generic real ringing noise I can get, and in my house, I’ll have a corded old school phone that I can slam down when I hang up and that makes loud obnoxious rings.
I think my hate of Apple comes from my jealousy of Final Cut Pro. I hate Womble. I finally finished the last cut in my Enemy at the Gates edit, and just one little audio fix took me two hours, because I had to deal with such terrible software. The Apple ][ was cool too.
July 1st, 2007 at 2:10 am
My laptop weighs 9 pounds. It also doesn’t fit into my pocket. Or make calls. Or connect to worldwide networks without wi-fi.
I had an old phone. This one is prettier. And it rings like an old phone.
July 1st, 2007 at 12:35 pm
I’m not saying it’s entirely useless (that’s why you got one), but I am saying I personally would have no use for it. I can borrow phones and go without the internet long enough to stay on Windows and not deal with anyone but my friend QWERTY.
July 1st, 2007 at 6:34 pm
I was in a lunch place the other day and some kid came up to me and asked if I had a phone he could borrow. I looked at him like he was crazy and said, “No.”
He then asked everyone else in the restaurant, and got no phone.
Kids these days.
August 14th, 2007 at 8:14 pm
> Phones are for talking.
No, they are devices to be used for as many tasks as they can handle. Why would you carry a laptop if you could carry something ten times smaller and lighter?
> I’m not saying it’s entirely useless (that’s why you got one),
> but I am saying I personally would have no use for it.
So what? I assume you are a student or something, because a PDA/phone is pretty much an essential business tool for many people (and why the iPhone currently fails as a device for professionals) but don’t presume that your situation is somehow applicable to adults.