Seriously, I know you got it before it was out and I know it's 3x times more expensive than my phone. you dont have to keep telling me. I know you have a gps app for it and play your music while driving but could you please look at the road? That's cool your tweeting at dinner, but seriously, no one here cares. I know you can get get wifi on it, you told me that yesterday, I still haven't seen you use the wifi though or the 300 cool apps you bought and never use. I tried to tell you this over the phone, you know the reason you bought it, but it dropped me again. And for gods sake, clean the face grease of the screen.
i love how whenever someone pulls one out and says 'you have to see this!' it's always the dumbest shit you have ever seen. oh your phone farts? thats fucking great.
I was riding the bus about a month ago and these youngsters get on. They proceed to sit down and one girl starts texting. The guy in the group then chimes in with his ever-so-uselful fun fact, a little louder than was necessary: "my phone is worth $2000 dollars".
He had an iPhone, and it must have had a hell of a lot more than 16 gigs worth of apps if it was worth 2 grand. I'm not joking, with a perfectly straight face, he straight-up claimed his phone cost two thousand dollars!! I sometimes wonder if people like this kid are just lying through their teeth or actually think they are speaking the truth. I'm sure I made some absurd statements when I was 13, but really; two THOUSAND dollars???
P.S. I think iPhones are pretty legit. There's too much hate against them and Blackberries...
mind you there are also way too many people that think their phone makes them some sort of special person and that it's necessary to explicitly describe exactly why this is, as if I didn't notice the Apple logo, or realize that yes, you can shake it and it sounds like a shotgun cocking. Neat.
I like the commercials when they say "Need X, there's an app for that" and it's always the most worthless shit. Like a book reader. Yeah, just what I want to do, read a book on a tiny ass screen. The animation thing above is a pretty cool use. But so far, I've heard of very few that you can't do with you brain, a small scrap of paper, or your own asshole. When I came back from Japan I could start a new contract with a phone company, get any phone I wanted and just thought, what a waste this thing is. I played with some friends' iPhones and just though, this thing is just a shiny object. (Although I am glad lots of people are drinking the Kool Aid so it can save one American company). I got the enV2 which has the flip out keyboard. I'm completely happy with that. $40 for the phone, $40 a month. Decent camera, has basic organizer functions, calendar, I can go online with it if I really need to (but who isn't 10 minutes from a PC most days). Even splits restaurant bills with no downloaded app. I don't really see the point of having email at all times either. Even if you are working, someone is usually going to want some data, or a thought out response, which isn't going to come from a BB or iPhone. You have all the construction drawings on your iPhone? Yeah right. I HATE getting BB/iPhone email responses because the spelling and grammar is 9 times out of 10, totally messed up. tYhe anmswers neber makesense.
But even urban spoon or whatever is crap. It's just like "Wendy's Applebee's Dunkin Donuts" Then we went in a restaurant we walked past, that didn't come up on the list. I hate both Blackberry's and iPhones for increasing the usage of facebook and Twitter. And I'm a techno geek. I love gadgets. I guess it's not that I hate the iPhone/Blackberry as much as I hate the wasted potential. My mom got an HP Mini for traveling and that is far better than the iPhone for $300. You can actually do WORK on it, type, surf full sized websites WITH FLASH, watch movies, plug into a projector if you have a presentation. It's a cool little gadget. Weighs 2 pounds with battery. The lack of Flash in the iPhone is probably the worst feature. Sure you can play iFlute, but you pretty much can't look at any websites. EVERY TIME I try to go on a website on my friends' iPhone, it says "Sorry, must have flash." We're talking local shitty businesses too. Not "disneylandmagicpirates.com" Almost everything has some embedded Flash. And from what my web developer friend tells me (and an iPhone user) it takes a processor with over 1GHz to run most contemporary Flash sites. Plus, even a lot of websites are just way too content heavy for the iPhone to handle. Like edmunds.com. Forget about it. Not flash, but the iPhone just can't do it.
i like shiny objects. i love the iphone. i'm jealous of those who have them - yes, i covet - and i always pick them up and play with them when i get a chance.
so far my phone has always been the free one you get with your contract, but i've been tempted.
I think that when you spend your money on expensive short term gadgets and contracts and cable packages and vacations and such you miss out on being able to buy some really nice cabinets which you will own for decades and increase the value of your property. Investment.
This could be the closest thing to a flame war I've seen here yet.
George Costanza: But I really want to leave my mark this time. Like remember that summer at Dairy Queen when I cooled my feet in the soft serve?
Jerry: So you want to go out in a final blaze of incompetence?
George Costanza: Flame on!
Who has time to build their kitchen cabinets? I worked at a const. company that did custom millwork as well - you will spend a far greater sum to build your own than buying manufactured. Plus these are sweet jesus and Mary and Joseph Italian made.
Who has time to build their kitchen cabinets? I worked at a const. company that did custom millwork as well - you will spend a far greater sum to build your own than buying manufactured. Plus these are sweet jesus and Mary and Joseph Italian made.
I don't own property and therefore I have no need to buy kitchen cabinets. I don't even own a car. But I do own an iPhone. And when we went to a solar farm this morning I was able to check the tilt angle of the panels in several directions with the level on my iPhone...added to my learning experience. We then got in my teacher's car, used it to find lunch, and after lunch used it to get back to the highway. And if I hadn't bummed a ride off of my friend, I would have used it to check the light rail schedules so I could get home.
I wouldn't have brought any of this up if there hadn't been a thread started about it, of course. But there was.
My point being, to each his/her own. If you want to tell me that I suck because I happen to have an iPhone - which I find very useful - then go ahead. I'll be napping.
PS. A matte dust cover removes all face grease/fingerprint issues.
how the hell sir-mix-a-lot only got 433 views? Seriously? I rode 5 miles through a train yard(proviso yards) to buy his baby got back and Fast Eddies Yo Get Funky, on Vinyl mind you, at coconuts in melrose park
in Japan for example nobody cares about iPhones because they have so much more sophisticated stuff over there, you people are being screwed by the American phone companies, any innovation is blocked because they want exclusivity so you buy crap all the time with screwed up contracts etc.
I have an Itouch and I never would have said anything until this stupid thread was started. Now I want to tell you haw I got this cool app for a lighter which I use when I go to concerts. I find it to be much greener than a real lighter as they just waste our precious resources.
Cool beans eh?
And I do use my wifi with the Itouch, alot if not too much. It's freakin great stuff.
Also, I didn't spend 2000 on my itouch. I spent 300 plus about 15 on 2 apps and a song. I don't consider this a lot of money for something that better last 2-3 years or maybe longer. My palm lasted 5 years.
I've had my 5th gen ipod video for 4 years now, still use it daily (walking/driving) and don't see an end to its life in sight. A friend of mine who "hates" ipods was telling me "i had this creative player that was great, and this player and that player... etc." All of them died or broke in less than a year. I bought my iPod once and its been great for 4 years.
It's the most usable phone i've ever had. My previous phones had a long list of functions but texting, calling and taking photos were the only functions i used, since everything else was a pain in the ass.
I use it for:
-calls
-texting
-music!
-watching video
-internet
-twitter
-facebook
-Shazam
-IM
-skype
-dictionary/thesaurus
-Tube/train info (a godsend in london since lines are always under maintenance)
-shopping on amazon/comparing prices while out and about/reading reviews/currency conversion
-picture taking (i'll admit it's not the best but most camera phones are shit)
-Finding my way using GPS
-I actually use the calendar on it!
-recording notes
-converting from US units to Metric
-gaming
-Looking up films and nearby cinemas
-checking deliveries (UPS etc)
-recording tv shows while away from home
-Remote
-VNC
-Using as a storage device for other content
I don't use it for
-farts and pulling fingers
-pouring beer
-shaking babies
I've seen previews of augmented reality apps that look really cool and the potential for this device and future versions is huge. I think if it can do the above quite well then it's a successful design and sure it still has downsides (like not being able to run more than one app at a time, no video recording, less than perfect battery life and still image quality) but these can be overcome over time. The only other phone i'd consider if the iPhone didn't exist is a blackberry
To my mind, the biggest downside to the iphone is the impact it's had on the cellular industry as a whole. Pretty much since the day it came out every competitor has been singularly obsessed with offering "me too" products instead of working to make sure they had a robust line of products and services to meet all their customers' needs.
Hear-Hear!
I stopped carrying a phone when I left my last job - if the company don't pay for it, I don't need it.
When my iPhone-Y friends ask me where my phone is, i tell 'em that i gave it to my wife - she yakks it up to whatever our max is each month, so she needs it.
Thos same friends also look stunned to see that someone can survice pretty well w/out one ofthose ghastly li' weights, which are really just one more thing to lose. i often detect a bit of wispfulness on their faces.
In my goofy opinion: Devices only separate you from real life. throw 'em away.
I don't care about your iPhone
I don't care about your rants
I don't care about your boat
I don't care about your school
I don't care about your job
I don't care about your portfolio
I don't care about your project
I don't care about your wife, husband and children
I don't care about your religion
I don't care about your degree
I don't care about your favorite starchitect
I don't care about your music
I don't care about your books
I don't care about your race and gender
I don't care about your laptop
I don't care about your gigabytes
I don't care about your nanotech knowledge
I don't care about your interest in secrecy
I don't care about your poetry
I don't care about your beer
I don't care about your wheels
I don't care about your tears
I don't care about your politics
I don't care about your twitter post
I don't care about your facebook presence
I don't care about your looks
I don't care about your glasses
I don't care about your flag
I don't care about your talent
I don't care about your blog
it would be great to have a phone that would call me. ask me how i am. what i'm up to . what i'm doing for the weekend. tell me it loves me and misses me and wishes i was there.
I dont care about your iPhone
Seriously, I know you got it before it was out and I know it's 3x times more expensive than my phone. you dont have to keep telling me. I know you have a gps app for it and play your music while driving but could you please look at the road? That's cool your tweeting at dinner, but seriously, no one here cares. I know you can get get wifi on it, you told me that yesterday, I still haven't seen you use the wifi though or the 300 cool apps you bought and never use. I tried to tell you this over the phone, you know the reason you bought it, but it dropped me again. And for gods sake, clean the face grease of the screen.
cool apps like how to divide up the cost of dinner? its called di fucking vision.
i love how whenever someone pulls one out and says 'you have to see this!' it's always the dumbest shit you have ever seen. oh your phone farts? thats fucking great.
Reading this post and replying from my iphone you should see how clear the screen is.
Sent from my iphone
That farts and does long division
Funny you could change this to Blackberry and many of the comments would still apply
most comments would apply, except for the 300 apps...
i wish the word "apps" would die.
apple is so definitely three hours ago.
I use mine to show our animations. AB-SO-LU-TE-LY f'ing amazing!!
same there are LOADS of apps for the blackberry - especially since the ones for PALM, and most handhelds can also run on it. Obviously I'm a user ;)
I was riding the bus about a month ago and these youngsters get on. They proceed to sit down and one girl starts texting. The guy in the group then chimes in with his ever-so-uselful fun fact, a little louder than was necessary: "my phone is worth $2000 dollars".
He had an iPhone, and it must have had a hell of a lot more than 16 gigs worth of apps if it was worth 2 grand. I'm not joking, with a perfectly straight face, he straight-up claimed his phone cost two thousand dollars!! I sometimes wonder if people like this kid are just lying through their teeth or actually think they are speaking the truth. I'm sure I made some absurd statements when I was 13, but really; two THOUSAND dollars???
P.S. I think iPhones are pretty legit. There's too much hate against them and Blackberries...
mind you there are also way too many people that think their phone makes them some sort of special person and that it's necessary to explicitly describe exactly why this is, as if I didn't notice the Apple logo, or realize that yes, you can shake it and it sounds like a shotgun cocking. Neat.
one practical reason that i do not use iphone mainly their camera sucks! can't take on site defects...
onsite defects photos...
"my phone is worth $2000 dollars". --that's a good way to get your phone jacked dumbass.
I love the iPhone, if I had one I'd no doubt enjoy it, but seriously, as evilp said: that face grease thing creeps me out. A lot. Yuck.
I like the commercials when they say "Need X, there's an app for that" and it's always the most worthless shit. Like a book reader. Yeah, just what I want to do, read a book on a tiny ass screen. The animation thing above is a pretty cool use. But so far, I've heard of very few that you can't do with you brain, a small scrap of paper, or your own asshole. When I came back from Japan I could start a new contract with a phone company, get any phone I wanted and just thought, what a waste this thing is. I played with some friends' iPhones and just though, this thing is just a shiny object. (Although I am glad lots of people are drinking the Kool Aid so it can save one American company). I got the enV2 which has the flip out keyboard. I'm completely happy with that. $40 for the phone, $40 a month. Decent camera, has basic organizer functions, calendar, I can go online with it if I really need to (but who isn't 10 minutes from a PC most days). Even splits restaurant bills with no downloaded app. I don't really see the point of having email at all times either. Even if you are working, someone is usually going to want some data, or a thought out response, which isn't going to come from a BB or iPhone. You have all the construction drawings on your iPhone? Yeah right. I HATE getting BB/iPhone email responses because the spelling and grammar is 9 times out of 10, totally messed up. tYhe anmswers neber makesense.
But even urban spoon or whatever is crap. It's just like "Wendy's Applebee's Dunkin Donuts" Then we went in a restaurant we walked past, that didn't come up on the list. I hate both Blackberry's and iPhones for increasing the usage of facebook and Twitter. And I'm a techno geek. I love gadgets. I guess it's not that I hate the iPhone/Blackberry as much as I hate the wasted potential. My mom got an HP Mini for traveling and that is far better than the iPhone for $300. You can actually do WORK on it, type, surf full sized websites WITH FLASH, watch movies, plug into a projector if you have a presentation. It's a cool little gadget. Weighs 2 pounds with battery. The lack of Flash in the iPhone is probably the worst feature. Sure you can play iFlute, but you pretty much can't look at any websites. EVERY TIME I try to go on a website on my friends' iPhone, it says "Sorry, must have flash." We're talking local shitty businesses too. Not "disneylandmagicpirates.com" Almost everything has some embedded Flash. And from what my web developer friend tells me (and an iPhone user) it takes a processor with over 1GHz to run most contemporary Flash sites. Plus, even a lot of websites are just way too content heavy for the iPhone to handle. Like edmunds.com. Forget about it. Not flash, but the iPhone just can't do it.
i like shiny objects. i love the iphone. i'm jealous of those who have them - yes, i covet - and i always pick them up and play with them when i get a chance.
so far my phone has always been the free one you get with your contract, but i've been tempted.
i might succumb...
Evil,
And where did you buy your kitchen cabinets? ;-)
Wait, what? Fancy kitchen cabinets?! I need to know.
Yes. Mr. Evil is soon to be Mr. Fancy Kitchen Cabinets!!! ;-)
dear iphone.
you're so hot.
i want to break my 2 year contract.
oh t-mobile, please allow us to use iphones like you do in germany. ftw?
I think that when you spend your money on expensive short term gadgets and contracts and cable packages and vacations and such you miss out on being able to buy some really nice cabinets which you will own for decades and increase the value of your property. Investment.
This could be the closest thing to a flame war I've seen here yet.
George Costanza: But I really want to leave my mark this time. Like remember that summer at Dairy Queen when I cooled my feet in the soft serve?
Jerry: So you want to go out in a final blaze of incompetence?
George Costanza: Flame on!
who needs to buy cabinets when you can make them?
Why build cabinets when you can just set your dishes on the floor?
Who has time to build their kitchen cabinets? I worked at a const. company that did custom millwork as well - you will spend a far greater sum to build your own than buying manufactured. Plus these are sweet jesus and Mary and Joseph Italian made.
Signor Valcucine?
Is that you?
;-)
Evil has left the building.
¡Long live Signor Valcucine!
I don't own property and therefore I have no need to buy kitchen cabinets. I don't even own a car. But I do own an iPhone. And when we went to a solar farm this morning I was able to check the tilt angle of the panels in several directions with the level on my iPhone...added to my learning experience. We then got in my teacher's car, used it to find lunch, and after lunch used it to get back to the highway. And if I hadn't bummed a ride off of my friend, I would have used it to check the light rail schedules so I could get home.
I wouldn't have brought any of this up if there hadn't been a thread started about it, of course. But there was.
My point being, to each his/her own. If you want to tell me that I suck because I happen to have an iPhone - which I find very useful - then go ahead. I'll be napping.
PS. A matte dust cover removes all face grease/fingerprint issues.
how the hell sir-mix-a-lot only got 433 views? Seriously? I rode 5 miles through a train yard(proviso yards) to buy his baby got back and Fast Eddies Yo Get Funky, on Vinyl mind you, at coconuts in melrose park
I have an Itouch do you care about that? It has a dictionary and I can play checkers.
i have a blackberry, and the push email is orgasmic. Yes i said orgasmic.
Now, if they had real push on the Iphone (not that bullshit MobileMe or Microsoft Exchange crap), I would go for it.
but can you record film on an iPhone?
in Japan for example nobody cares about iPhones because they have so much more sophisticated stuff over there, you people are being screwed by the American phone companies, any innovation is blocked because they want exclusivity so you buy crap all the time with screwed up contracts etc.
but enjoy nonetheless!
I have an Itouch and I never would have said anything until this stupid thread was started. Now I want to tell you haw I got this cool app for a lighter which I use when I go to concerts. I find it to be much greener than a real lighter as they just waste our precious resources.
Cool beans eh?
And I do use my wifi with the Itouch, alot if not too much. It's freakin great stuff.
ep,
Also, I didn't spend 2000 on my itouch. I spent 300 plus about 15 on 2 apps and a song. I don't consider this a lot of money for something that better last 2-3 years or maybe longer. My palm lasted 5 years.
I was just hanging out this weekend with a couple who both had iphones.
I would say that they both spent about 40% of their time away from it...
fence-
I've had my 5th gen ipod video for 4 years now, still use it daily (walking/driving) and don't see an end to its life in sight. A friend of mine who "hates" ipods was telling me "i had this creative player that was great, and this player and that player... etc." All of them died or broke in less than a year. I bought my iPod once and its been great for 4 years.
Hey,
Anybody get a new interesting app lately?
I recently installed Wolfenstein3D…
i surely dont care about YOUR iphone...but do want one for myself.
T-MOBILE LET ME GO....YOUR STUPID CONTRACT!!SUCKS
It's the most usable phone i've ever had. My previous phones had a long list of functions but texting, calling and taking photos were the only functions i used, since everything else was a pain in the ass.
I use it for:
-calls
-texting
-music!
-watching video
-internet
-twitter
-facebook
-Shazam
-IM
-skype
-dictionary/thesaurus
-Tube/train info (a godsend in london since lines are always under maintenance)
-shopping on amazon/comparing prices while out and about/reading reviews/currency conversion
-picture taking (i'll admit it's not the best but most camera phones are shit)
-Finding my way using GPS
-I actually use the calendar on it!
-recording notes
-converting from US units to Metric
-gaming
-Looking up films and nearby cinemas
-checking deliveries (UPS etc)
-recording tv shows while away from home
-Remote
-VNC
-Using as a storage device for other content
I don't use it for
-farts and pulling fingers
-pouring beer
-shaking babies
I've seen previews of augmented reality apps that look really cool and the potential for this device and future versions is huge. I think if it can do the above quite well then it's a successful design and sure it still has downsides (like not being able to run more than one app at a time, no video recording, less than perfect battery life and still image quality) but these can be overcome over time. The only other phone i'd consider if the iPhone didn't exist is a blackberry
To my mind, the biggest downside to the iphone is the impact it's had on the cellular industry as a whole. Pretty much since the day it came out every competitor has been singularly obsessed with offering "me too" products instead of working to make sure they had a robust line of products and services to meet all their customers' needs.
Hear-Hear!
I stopped carrying a phone when I left my last job - if the company don't pay for it, I don't need it.
When my iPhone-Y friends ask me where my phone is, i tell 'em that i gave it to my wife - she yakks it up to whatever our max is each month, so she needs it.
Thos same friends also look stunned to see that someone can survice pretty well w/out one ofthose ghastly li' weights, which are really just one more thing to lose. i often detect a bit of wispfulness on their faces.
In my goofy opinion: Devices only separate you from real life. throw 'em away.
I don't care about your iPhone
I don't care about your rants
I don't care about your boat
I don't care about your school
I don't care about your job
I don't care about your portfolio
I don't care about your project
I don't care about your wife, husband and children
I don't care about your religion
I don't care about your degree
I don't care about your favorite starchitect
I don't care about your music
I don't care about your books
I don't care about your race and gender
I don't care about your laptop
I don't care about your gigabytes
I don't care about your nanotech knowledge
I don't care about your interest in secrecy
I don't care about your poetry
I don't care about your beer
I don't care about your wheels
I don't care about your tears
I don't care about your politics
I don't care about your twitter post
I don't care about your facebook presence
I don't care about your looks
I don't care about your glasses
I don't care about your flag
I don't care about your talent
I don't care about your blog
All I care is how kind you are
Yesterday I sealed the deal on a huge condo project with an animation my assistant uploaded onto my iPhone.
In the middle of 18 holes.
In Singapore.
it would be great to have a phone that would call me. ask me how i am. what i'm up to . what i'm doing for the weekend. tell me it loves me and misses me and wishes i was there.
I suppose you hate my 17-inch MacBook Pro too!
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