I'm a fairly new iPhone user--had mine about 3 months now--and have enjoyed the heck out of it. I find it a handy tool, a fun toy, a decent communication device, and a fascinating bit of technology. But until I started reading some of the comments in the Prius iPhone App thread, I didn't realize what high expectations I was supposed to be having. Someone stated that Prius drivers who have iPhones aren't the Fart App sort of people....boy am I gonna need therapy, I have the fart app...and the light saber app too. Will I be ostricized...will Apple nerds be coming to take away my iPhone now? Apparently some bad apps are so bad that I should take it as a personal insult if I download them and don't like them...I mean, some of those downloads of free apps take as long as 30 seconds...and don't forget another 2 seconds to delete it. I'll never ever get that time or bandwidth back again buddy....those folks OWE me for producing such a POS! Is there a screening tool where one can find out if an app is OK for someone of my stature to buy/have? Just enter your age, occupation, car you drive and the app you're considering and it gets back to you with an evaluation and a buy/don't buy decision? Maybe there's an app for that? *guys, this is meant in jest, but there are enough folks out there that consider Prius people snobs...I don't wanna be a double snob. We each choose what we choose for our own reasons and the should be no greater expectations beyond that.
Dont you know the iphone can do anything? http://www.explosm.net/db/files/Comics/Rob/help.png I dont own an iphone. I have a pocketPC.
I keep the Apps I have restricted to what I do - geography, meteorology, GPS, iPod, decibel meter and a few others. No need to be snobbish, the iPhone is a very effective tool - the prestige is in what you do with it, not that you have an iPhone. The case is an extended battery pack. The iPhone normally rests in the center console, so is hands-free for driving and stays fully charged.
There's a fart app??? You mean, you touch the icon and the phone farts??? Is there a chemical canister to release the smell? Hey, I think you are justified in acting like a snob if you have a telephone that farts! :rockon: I don't have an iPhone. My phone doesn't even take pictures. It just makes phone calls, and it's always off unless I want to make a call while I'm away from home, and that happens half a dozen times a year, mostly while I'm traveling. Otherwise it sits in my car in case of emergencies. But I'm an EV snob, and proud of it!
I was thinking about an iPhone. My daughter dropped the 1st one several times and it didn't fix itself, and lost her 2nd one. Why didn't it find its way home? Clearly an inferior product.
A coworker and I got into a lightsaber fight at a meeting across the table a few weeks back. I got my iPhone - believe it or not - for the practicality. What I don't have time for is things that waste my time. And I don't have the money to buy boatloads of stuff. So I got a phone, calender, GPS, email client, web tool, note taker, camera, and whatever else I need all rolled into one. More than once, I've been happy that I had it. Mind you, if I hadn't gotten it I probably wouldn't have missed it at those times. Like the Prius, there are simply way too many iPhones all around me for me to feel special about having one. I wonder if it's akin to something a friend once told me about money: Money doesn't change the person who has it; it only amplifies who they already were. Oh yeah, I have to add my personal opinion on technology and gadgets and how cool people are who have them. If my 15 year old niece can walk into a store and buy it, having it makes you as cool as her.
It has. Used to be, people on the street would talk to each other. Now everybody's talking to themselves, avoiding eye contact, their thumbs tapping away on tiny screens, and just plain acting crazy. That's not civilised. It's insane.
Imagine if 60-70 years ago, a person tried walking down a busy sidewalk - or even better, right in to the street like the CrackBerry person I just about nailed at lunch today - with a tiny thing having buttons, the behavior as you described They would have grabbed him, thrown him into an insane asylum, and performed a prefrontal lobotomy or transorbital lobotomy http://soundportraits.org/images/my_lobotomy-freeman_operating_full.jpg problem solved!
And now they're all closed. The demented just wander the streets, blending right in. I've woken up in a Twilight Zone episode, yet everyone insists it's reality. :crazy:
Yeah, but now that telephones can fart we're on the way back to sanity. Everything's going to be fine. Instead of thumbing their Blackberries or talking into their phones in public, people are going to start running their iPhone fart apps everywhere they go. The economy will recover, bin Laden will turn himself in, the terrorists will all go into psychoanalysis, Arabs and Israelis will start kissing in the streets, the Dow will shoot up to 25,000, everyone will let out a collective sigh of relief, and nobody will ever be unhappy again. Ahhhhh!
You know what I like best about my iPhone? I really dislike electronic toys, but when going on a trip, I need a camera to take pictures, a PDA to take notes and figure out my schedule, an iPod because it's the most compact music player, and a phone for obvious reasons. So rather than carry a camera, a PDA, an iPod, and a phone like I used to, I just grab one device rather than four, plus it lets me read news while I'm waiting for a plane/doctor/etc., and plays Scrabble if I'm done reading the news.
*guys, this is meant in jest, but there are enough folks out there that consider Prius people snobs...I don't wanna be a double snob. We each choose what we choose for our own reasons and the should be no greater expectations beyond that. I appreciate the humor in this. I agree too many people are taking themselves way too seriously. We need to be careful, the next thing you know we are going to have people telling us the small plastic covers on the wheels don't look cool and need to be removed. What next? Felt lined glove boxes?
I don't have any of the fart apps. However, I do have iCatchall, which, along with the two dozen or so functions it has, will Rickroll me whenever I feel the need to be Rickrolled.
When I got the iPhone, a few coworkers were ribbing me about having a Prius and an iPhone. My reply? "Don't forget that I have a MacBook at home. It's a veritable trifecta of snobbery!"
