Two friend of mine became iphoned in recent weeks, and i am hoping the CDC will find a vaccine quickly. I've been in close vicinity to them both, and am more and more concerned about the virus.
I carry a raz(o)r. So 2005. While it does a fine job of making and receiving calls, and takes the photo or video I every now and then require, that's about it. My friends never tire of telling me about the wonders of their new toy. "There's so much on it!" the wife told me, "my husband stays up late in bed finding new features!" And there are hundreds, no thousands of little programs you can download. There is a graphic opinion piece in today's N.Y. Times that pokes fun at such an expensive toy in such a deflated economy. I think it is terribly humorous, but I suspect my friends will think otherwise. Apple people are like that. No sense of humor about their pride and joy.
I'm the same way except 180 degrees in the other direction. I think the TV and print ads that compare PC's and Apples are insulting. As I've asked before, when did it become a cool marketing tool to insult your potential customers? My Apps (as I've begun to think of my friends with the iPhones) think I'm being too sensitive. They think the ads are a riot. What do you think? Oh...you're an app too?
[UPDATE!!!!!! Apply Corp. reads my blog, slashes prices for the iPhone! (OK, only the second part is true..)]
[UPDATE: The Sociological need for a "smart phone" in The NY Times.]
Coupla' comments on this one, ol' buddy!
ReplyDeleteFirst, I'm a Mac man. Been one for a L - O - N - G time.
NEVER had to worry about a virus, or whatever is making the rounds of PC-ville.
NEVER had to be concerned that what I did on my 'puter wouldn't work on another machine.
NEVER had to be concerned about the .dll, driver for this, that or the other.
NEVER had to be worried about 99% of all the crap that Mircosoft's Gatesville has created.
Been using my l'il Mac laptop for a long, long time, and was doing digital music and Photoshop BEFORE it was all the rage.
The humerus is a long bone, and it's only funny if you hit the ulnar nerve. Then it's hilarious!
Why would someone play with a phone in bed, instead of with their spouse?
Sure, it's expensive... but they can afford it! (Also known as conspicuous consumption.)
Yes, it's a toy. I use an OLD Nokia. (And, I have 18,000 rollover minutes. YES, 18,000.) About the only thing I haven't done to it is drop it in water. It's a ROCK solid, fairly slim phone only. You see, I can go into secure areas with it, whereas some of my friends cannot.
Still have a Treo 650. It's the multi-function QWERTY mini 'puter gizmo. It's a WORKHORSE. Used it to surf the 'net, send/receive e-mail, txt, jpg/gp3 etc. Don't know why Palm abandoned their truly innovative and cool OS in favor of (arrhg) Mircosoft.
My dad recently bought his first 'puter. It's an iMac. Smart... very smart. (He's also the MOST educated man in our family. Said the reason he didn't get a PhD was because the state BoE wouldn't pay him any more. So he stopped at the AA Cert.)
The long-term costs of ownership of a Mac versus a Windoze OS have been, time and again, shown to be significantly lower.
It's a marketing machine, Tim. How do you unbrainwash folks?
And yes, you may be just a bit overly sensitive at the ads... unless you really enjoy ads about tampons and menstrual pads (that use BLUE water - Blueblood?) and toilet paper by bears (bears shit in the woods)!