Damn You, Apple, I Want an iPhone
Today the iPhone comes out. I know this because for weeks now every freaking TV show on the planet has played iPhone commerical after iPhone commercial. And you know what? They sold me.
If somehow that silly phone actually works as smoothly as they tease on the commercials, I don’t see how I can live a meaningful life without one. Surely I’d be an empty shell of a man with my stupid clunky old phone and its neutered web browser.
I’ve never owned an iPod. Hell, I don’t think I’ve ever purchased an Apple product. But this just may be the way they lure me into their sick little cult.
I won’t buy one today. I won’t buy one tomorrow. But sooner or later, that cursed beauty will be mine.
C’mon, Microsoft. Where is the ZunePhone?
This entry represents the power of marketing and advertising at its finest.
When you get your iPhone, you need to make sure everyone, everywhere you go, knows you have an iPhone. It is the new status symbol – and how can anyone take you seriously as a developer if you don’t have one ? In fact, I may stop reading this blog if you don’t get one STAT.
Honestly I have hidden motives behind wanting you to get an iPhone. I just want you to be the next busted guy in the bathroom:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=9lo2gb7zFRQ
I think Jeff has a great post about this: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000896.html
You’re lying to me! iPhone is better than anything, ever. Stop being such an Apple h8r.
And Raly, you’re right. I’m a shitty developer until I get my iPhone.
I want an Iphone. I just bought a new cell phone too, right before these came out:( Suxxors:( But I got the LG Chocolate in mint green, which I prefer to call fairy green, but then again I guess that makes it fairy chocolate which is pretty gross.
Its not the commercials or anything that making you want it… Steve Jobs Reality Distortion Field has gotten much much stronger every since Bill Gates said he was stepping down…
I mean its in Wikipedia so it has to be true
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_distortion_field
Or better yet, open your eyes to the wonder of Google and find one of the dozen or more PDA phones that does all the iPhone does, and more.
Revolutionary? Feh. It’s just shiny, with an Apple sticker. Whoop.
The difference, HTC, between an iPhone and all the PDA phone, is their targetted markets.
PDA phones target the high end data user, mail and internet users, people who’d normally be using their laptop and wifi hotspot subscriptions at a lower price, with a more portable device.
The iPhone is ignoring that market. It’s not promising to be a smartphone, or a laptop replacement.
It’s a phone for the average consumer. It’s got a great bunch of phone features, for example, enhanced voicemail interfaces. It’s got the ability to read and send email. Heading out the door, but need a map? Google maps connects to your router and get that map, rather than rebooting the PC you turned off before you left the house. Or if you’re out and lost in the middle of Barstow… you can even get maps over the cell network.
AND to top off it’s few consumer friendly technofeatures, it’s got an iPod thats even BETTER than one of the best selling consumer gadgets on the market already.
Yep, that widescreen video iPod will hold your downloadable episodes of Lost, and the touch screen sure looks flashy and functional, doesn’t it?
Yup. They’re aren’t selling it to you, HTC. You’re obviously too leet for their marketing schemes.
But they are going to sell it to MILLIONS of consumers who aren’t as leet as you, and 95% of the people who buy it will LOVE it.
Apparently the phone blends pretty well. I’d buy it.
http://www.psstit.com/share/will-it-blend-iphone.html
Can you believe they did that to a brand new iPhone?