Who else couldn't give a rat's ass about an iPhone??

Raise your hand.

I have a free cellphone that I can't quite figure out how to use except to make a call. Why would I want a gadget that would put me bacl $500 or $600 that'd be too complex for me to use?

Am I the only one who could care less?

lisa loves it

:shrug:

Sure, it looks like a fun internet gadget, but $600 and you have to have AT&T service? No, thanks.

But I don't want to pay that much $ and have to switch to AT&T and still have to carry around my ipod because that thing's got no storage capacity, that sounds like a crappy deal.

This is a phone not just for the supreme jackass, but for the supreme iJackass.

:kick:

:rofl:

Can I steal that one?

Let's see if we can make it a meme.

I'm getting tired of the iBullshit.

I like my iPod and my Powerbook, but a lot of this crap is getting out of hand! What's next? The iCar? The iMicrowave?

:rofl:

:spray:

So that while he's metaphorically fuckin' 'em out of their money, he can at least give 'em a reach around.

But would they be sold at Apple Stores or in the back pages of the free press? :rofl:

:)

It's another overpriced toy. It's not like my life depended on having one of those things.

the monthly access fees are enormous.

but it's not super fast yet.
i could see myself getting one in a few years, when they have the kinks worked out.
:shrug:

About five times as fast as it as a few days ago.

And yeah, $60 is for the entry level package. For the details.

http://www.apple.com/iphone/easysetup/rateplans.html

The technology and design are wonderful, but I like my phone to just be a phone.

then MAYBE I'd consider it. But I have no reason to want one. Having the next best thing is just not important to me. Yes, it seems like a neat gadget, but it's not that important that I own one.

It should **** me everytime I get a call.

and I hate gadgets. I have a blackberry that i never take anywhere; it sits in my nightstand drawer. I don't even like my ordinary cellphone.

tech junk in my face when I get home. I don't even have a cell phone. Don't watch TV much; wouldn't own one except Mr. Nay is addicted. I hate email. I don't listen to the radio in the car. I do check the news on DU and go on craigslist, but shit, some people are obsessed with all this crap. People need to get some REAL hobbies.

:spray:

I prefer not to be connected to the world. :P

I didn't even want a camera in my phone, turns out it is hard to find one that is decent that doesn't have one.

And I don't have any rat's asses to give anyway, but certainly not for an iPhone.

not interested

We're buying two. So there.

:P

I have a regular cell phone that's 99% used for car problems or calling to tell someone I'm going to be late because I'm sitting in traffic. I just don't use it enough and I don't need internet when I'm not at home or work.

If the price was only $299, and it would work with any cell phone service company (just by putting in that company's chip) then they would have a winner there. But as it is now it's an extremely expensive toy.

Love Apple products as a rule, but being locked into one company plus
the $60 dollar monthly and the initial price is over the top for me.

I predict the day will come when it's half the price and it is compatible with all major cell phone service companies. When that day comes is up to Apple, of course. If they're smart, it won't be more than 1 year. If those 2 complaints I have are eliminated, I might consider buying one. But now, forget it.

I hate the regular phone. Cells phones are worse. They follow you. Why would you want it possible for someone to be able to reach you anywhere?
:scared:

and don;t have to miss the call and freak out... when you're running from job to hospital, so you can have just a slight bit of a life. It's just another tool.

Hell, when my wife was pregnant, you couldn't separate me from that phone.
Still, 99% of the time (or some other high percentage) I find the things evil.

and i have to say i did a 180 in my feelings about people who act as if people on cell phones are evil.
fuck him, seriously, people on the bus were talkng ot each other as loud. if he could here me, he could here we were discussing how grave injuries the were.
this proud to be a Luddite BS has it's limits. and that fucker was not miserable because he had to listen to me, he was just plain miserable.

answering the phone at the movies, using the phone in the quiet areas of the library, talking to other people on the phone and ignoring their guests etc. The cell phone is a major rude and dangerous habit enabler.

I donlt put up with the shit you describe, but I'm not rude to people who are merely talking in public.

I was on the train going to work. My mother was in the CICU, but I HAD to go into work for a bit before going back to the hospital. I was calling the nurse to make certain that my mother had survived the night. Some idiots got pissed with me. Now, those same assholes probably jabber on their cellphones constantly.

:evilfrown:

Happily, she had and lived for several years after that.

work with the doctors, you have to do it when it's good for them. i remember the nurse asking if the number i gave her was my cell.
it wasn't and and she was like I hope you know you'll be doing a lot of sitting and waiting.
on my way home, i got the cell. and after the rude guy on the bus, i never felt a shred of self conciousness about it either. i guess i should be grateful for that.

Everybody on the train looked damn embarrassed.

Assholes.

For me, there's no reason to be reachable when I'm out and about. Especially, if I'm riding. At work and home there are land lines. It's not being a Luddite, but practical. And keeping money out of corporate communications off-shore accounts.

Bunch of hype.

way too expensive and to be honest as an engineer...my life is already full of computers and technology...I prefer to take a break from it as much as I can ...and a phone like that is just overkill for me....hell it is bad enough that I have a cell phone already...

What more does the ipod do? $500 worth?

It must be something. But, I'm sorta Neanderthal, I don't even own a Wii.

Rat's Asses?

God only knows where their asses have been.

1. I'm locked in a contract with Verizon anyways (since I get my cell phone through my employer and my phone bill is deducted from my paycheck anyways) so I have no use for one.

2. If I'm going to spend some money on something that looks good and has tons of cool features, I'd much rather put my money toward one of these:

Big fucking deal! :eyes:

over a phone that does some other stuff. I'd never pay that kind of money for it either.

Only have it for emergencies. It's a throw away.

We have the technology, so we must create it! Society and our profit margin demand it!



"Must... have... new... shiny... beepy... thing..."

Normally, wireless providers sell the phones at reduced rates based on your contract, and make up the profits through your monthly payments to them. The iphone, they're charging it's full profit value, but continuing to charge you the inflated profit-equalizing rate month to month. Bull. Shit.

Then, the iPhone doesn't have upgradeable memory, a proper keyboard, it doesn't support Windows Media or Flash, it can't record video, the battery isn't user replaceable, the sim cards apparently aren't transferable, and frankly, it lacks many of the standard features people expect from basic cell phones, let alone the *IPHONE, CONQUERER OF UNIVERSES CRUSHER OF MICROSOFT*

x(

But hey, you could have a shiny, shitty unsecured hypephone and provide them with more money to hide from you!

- You can't use your iTunes library for ring tones. (Wouldn't that be a painfully obvious feature for them to include?)
- You can't use the phone to buy music from from iTunes. (Wouldn't that be even MORE painfully obvious for them to include?)
- No IM service, not even iChat.
- No 3G support.
- No GPS.

A little shinier, but very close to the PLUG IT IN AND GET 100 OLDSCHOOL GAMES ON Y OUR HOME TV!!!!!

at the former radio shack

But I totally want Mortal Kombat.

you can iBeam it from your iMplant to all your iFriends and have deathmatches.

When the iCars come out.

Stupidity.. an extra 30 bucks a month to watch videos on my phone. It was actually a nightmare trying to get them to take OFF the VCast because they start you with the "free trial" and expect you never to call. "But.. but you won't be able to download tv clips to your phone." You know, that's fine. I have Tivo, I have a video iPod, and I have a MacBook. I also have brain cells I want to exercise every once in a while.

Alls I know is the "no talking on your cell phone if it isn't hands free in the car" law goes into effect July 1st here in Los Angeles, and I'm crossing my fingers it becomes one of those things cops get really stringent and douchey about because it's an easy revenue stream.

I mean, I love gadgets, but all these stories about people waiting in line for days for an iphone... jesus. If you have that kind of time, I seriously doubt you have anyone to even call when you get it.

Why would I want to watch videos on that tiny screen on my cell phone when I have all of the above?

And we're going hands-free here in a few months too - and not a moment too soon, if you ask me. We nearly got broadsided by some crazy person on her phone who plowed through a stop sign the other day. :eyes:

Chicago has one of those laws, but I see people gabbing into their hand-held cellphones every damn day.

:mad:

But as I understand it, you have to be pulled over for another infraction (like plowing into another car?) to actually be cited for it. :eyes:

$600 is my rent. I want a roof over my head. That phone can't protect me from Mother Nature.

I think the technology is kind of nifty, and if I get the new job I'm trying for, I wouldn't mind having something like it to pass the time during the 1 to 1.5 hour train ride to and from work.

It would be kind of neat to be able to read and post to DU on the train. :P

And I don't want to commit to a two year contract agreement.

600 dollars sure would go a long way towards that truck i need.

I'm already an AT&T customer and $600 for a phone isn't too bad if the features are worth it. We shall see, as I have 3 days to try it out. The money is a non-issue.

so, no.

How could anything be better than that?!

And there are already plenty of cellphone users on the bus -- video players, loud talkers, people who say, "EH?" -- to annoy the living crap out of all of us. We don't need another device.

I can't hear so none of them do me any good.

Which is the whole point of the iPhone.

It's insanely easy to use.

I bought two today for my wife and I.

The triplets' mother is going to help me with it. And it was free with a two-year contract with a provider I have used for 15 years. Which is the point.

but I could care less about the iPhone atm

until the service is upgraded and the hardrives exceed 20 gigs while maintaining decent battery life, I will not own an iPhone, but when the service becomes svelte and the hd is decent, I'll jump all over it

I don't own a cell phone at all, and plan to hold out as long as possible. I hate the things.

And what's the point of watching a movie on a two inch square, anyway???

unless I find out Paris Hilton has one. Or is gonna get one.

Is there even an i in 'phone'? When is Apple coming out with the iteam?

From reports I heard/read, people were lining up outside Apple stores days ago.

I cannot imagine doing that. For anything.

after bicycling 70 miles over-night on about an hour's sleep. Just to get Kareem Abdul Jabbar's autograph. Just so I could give it away.

makes me wanna throw things.

lead us into a bright new iFuture, a new age of enlightenment where no one will ever want for anything.

Only sleek black technological toys can lead the way.

:hi:

I saw it on the news...are there really people waiting online and jumping up and down about getting one? Why? Or did the corporation manufacture this? I am so confused.

who had spent a night or two outdoors waiting. Haven't seen it on the boob tube, because I get home too late for the 6 pm news and am in bed by the time the 10 pm news comes on.

It's like people waiting for Harry Potter books to be released, or the Harry Potter movies to debut.

I don't get it.

:shrug:

that is kind of about imagination, and it's pretty cheap. This crap about technology, I just don't get.

:shrug:

Maybe I'm just jaded, but hat's hardly news, haha.

my ipod holds 20 gigs. That holds, what, 4? Unless they have a phone that holds all my music so I don't still have to have both a cell phone and an ipod, I'm not interested.

It's a plot, Steve Jobs is getting back at Gates by making devices we can't be without, while Gates makes shitty software.


Jobs won.

Now, get me away from electrons for a few hours a day. Please

costs $500-$600 dollars, and is reliant on Apple?

No Thanks. Not even if I Could Afford It, which I can't.

I know the next device I buy will be a smartphone of some sort; it's inevitable. For now, I have an LG VX8300 phone and a Palm Tungsten E2. I don't use either for web access because I can't afford it, I don't text message on my phone because no one else I know does either; I don't take pictures with my phone (although I could), and while I put a chip in my Tungsten E2 that stores a lot of songs, I find I rarely use it as a player, and I certainly wouldn't use my phone for that. Finally, because I use two separate devices, using my organizer doesn't mean I run out of battery power to make a call. :)

Thank you - I thought maybe I was the only one who felt that way.

The stock is now at $122, thank you very much. I remember touting it on this forum when it was less than half that price. It's always a cinch that Steve Jobs will out think and out execute the PC clods. That's been my focus ever since Jobs went back to Apple in the mid '90s and came out with the iMac. I've bought Apple stock more than a dozen times since then, with numerous splits and only one long lull.

Well, I had a nice basketball wagering season and (so far) with the golf matchups, so that contributes to the long vacation, but I'll credit Apple just to piss off the flailing anti-Apple crew on DU.:rofl:

Conspicuous consumption...again...

I could give a fucking rat's ass about any of it. We agreed to not talk about the iPhone today but that lasted about 25 minutes. I am not amused.

Who needs another overpriced distraction?

I don't have a cellphone, or an ipod, or even cable. If I weren't trying to start up a work-at-home thingy, I probably wouldn't have a computer. Then I couldn't spend oodles of time making my opinions known. I shudder to think what would happen to you poor people if you were bereft of my opinions. So I'll keep the computer.

Except a Swiss Army knife has tools on it specifically designed for necessary functions, such as keeping you alive in the wilderness. An iPhone, on the other hand, is filled with tools that will keep you entertained while bears eat you. Until the battery goes out. The best you could probably do is call for help, and given AT&T's service record, there is a high chance you'll be out of a coverage area. AT&T roaming charges v. being eaten by a bear...it's a tough call.

It has many valuable tools, even a corkscrew for those unexpected emergencies when you can't open the damn bottle of wine any other way. :D

land line is for my convenience and I only answer it when it's someone calling that I want to talk to.

visible through the clear case. It is THE most awesome phone I've ever seen, with all turquoise, pink, green, and yellow bits!
Ten bucks!

would stand in line for days so that they could pay $600 bucks to help Apple work the kinks out of its new product.

I change the channel when the commercials appear.

!!!

3G dude... 3G...

iPhone was obsolete the second it was introduced.

An all-in-one gadget that your entire life is entwined around. Phone, Music, PC, Bank Accounts, Health Records- everything... And if you lose it, you're screwn!

That is what a friend who is a VP at att says.
My friend has had one for the last six months for familiarazation and testing.
Wait for version 2 of the iphone which is scheduled for release in 6 months.