I do not love the iPhone, and not for the usual reasons
I don’t share the general undying love and devotion that Apple fans have displayed for the iPhone. One of my main reasons is I have an allergy to being locked into using something I would not otherwise use (i.e. iTunes, hence I’ve never even contemplated buying an iPod). If I was in the US and got an iPhone I’d be locked into using AT&T (and spend a shitload of money in the process).
If I don’t explain my other primary reason why the iPhone leaves me colder than a frigid lady polar bear, I’m sure I’m going to hear some passioned defence and ad hominem arguments, so here it is:
I am a klutz. If I spent well over six hundred US dollars on an all-singing, all-dancing converged device*, it had better not be all shiny and consist mainly of a glass touchscreen. Because I will drop it within a quarter of an hour, glass side down. On a very hard surface. From height.
Apple has alienated groups of users such as myself.
* I also have an issue with converged devices. I like having multiple gadgets that do their one job well.
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Hmm, is this the third time you have posted about how much you do not want an iPhone?
This time it was only because it finally launched and I’ve seen a lot of ‘reports’ on my RSS reader.
Update: I searched. I’ve written about how the LG Prada phone was not an iPhone clone, and the announcement itself.
Are you saying I’m not hip enough to write about tech-y launches? I’m hurt!
More like you are spending a lot of time talking about something you _say_ you do not want. :D
She might think she’s a “klutz” (funny word)…
but I never saw Andrea spill a drink!
The ladie’s priorities are right on line!!!
Terry, I do not want a converged all singing all dancing phone. I want a phone that makes and receives calls, sends and receives text, and has a phonebook. The fact I’ve got a camera on mine shows how easily I’m pleased when a phone is codenamed StrTrk.
Tutu, yes, odd, isn’t it? I, however, have fallen getting out of bed and walking on level ground. So… I’m pretty klutzy. Hehe.
I’ve done both of those too…
…there does however seem to be a strong corelation to the days when these things happened and the times I left the Londoner the previous evening / night or same morning.
hehe!’
p.s. I’m not an alcoholic… they go to meetings!
“I have an allergy to being locked into using something I would not otherwise use (i.e. iTunes, hence I’ve never even contemplated buying an iPod).”
You’re *not* locked into using iTunes on an iPod - I hate iTunes and I love my iPod. I use alternate software called Anapod Explorer. It rocks. iTunes totally sucks.
Tutu, sadly, I have always been dead sober when I fall and hurt myself. The beer armour really works.
Rebekka… fair enough. I’m still not keen on the iPod, though. I’ve just got this thing about paying a premium for a brand.
Andrea, Drunken Master?
Beer armour (in my case read “belly”)definitley cushions the impact with solid objects…
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