Posted on 12/18/2011 4:22:25 PM PST by varmintman
Prior to 02 I'd gone for some time hoping I could die of old age without ever touching a cellphone but that clearly wasn't going to happen; I was getting into too much trouble from not being able to find pay phones which basically stopped existing around that time. I mean, superman never had to look more than 30 feet for a phone booth to change in, but he'd go crazy now.
And then, a bit less than a year ago, the company I work for insisted on me buying an Iphone and the main idea was having access to email on the road. I mean, I'd never wanted anything to do with Apple after the stunt they pulled shutting down the Atari 520ST in 85, but I ignored any misgivings I may have had and bought the thing....
The biggest problem has been the thing getting a mote of dust or lint or something in that little hole for headphones and believing it was working with headphones when it wasn't. That keeps the user from hearing the other guy unless he figures out what's going on and puts the phone on speaker. The problem can usualy be fixed by blowing PC cleaning air into the headphone hole but it can take an hour or more of doing that.
That is still preferable to taking the thing to the local Apple store for service. Their normal mode is to have you make an appointment to be seen in two or three or four days and that basically means going several days off the air.
Then there's the thing about batteries. If a battery dies on any other cell phone you buy a new battery for $20 or $30 and replace the dead one. The Iphone needs to be replaced if a battery dies and, that's right, you need to make an appointment for that and that can mean several days off the air.
I mean, who the hell would buy a car which had to be replaced whenever a battery died.....
But the kicker came yesterday morning when the thing (actually the second one after the first being replaced for a battery), not only pulled its ugly little thing of acting like it thought it was on imaginary headphones, but aside from me not hearing other people other than on speaker, nobody else could hear me.
The normal deal with ATT is to be eligible for phone upgrades every two years; in this case the situation wasn't going to go for another year or more and I simply paid the full price for a Samsung/Android phone and the best ATT could do was a trade-in program which gave me 200 for the Iphone so that the whole deal cost more like 400 than 600, but I view that as money well spent, the Samsung Galaxy appears to be a much nicer phone.
God that was brilliant.
Actually, Laz, I’m just saying, that just sayin’ is spelled just sayin’ not just saying!
See #22. Just sayin’.
I have had an iPhone sine the first in July of ‘07. I have fever had a problem with dust in the head phone hole. Also , no battery will last forever.
Bill , btw I didn’t vote for Obama.
Incidentally — know the feeling. I refused to get windows until the only software available for anything was windows based. And I held out a long time on the iPhone. But once I got — and it was a business decision — its benefits have been incalculable, and it’s totally changed the way I view the “information revolution.”
At any rate, your original statement is very wrong. The majority of iPhone users (and Apple products in general) lean to the right. Everybody knows that most liberals choose Microsoft products.
I’ve owned an Iphone as well as a new Galaxy. I don’t know what led me to buy an Iphone - I’m an open source guy who hates proprietary software with a passion. The Galaxy puts the Iphone to shame - you’ve made a good choice!
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You will have to excuse me, but that is complete Horsesh*t. Is that clear enough for you?
From what I have observed, it is people who buy Samsung products who gaze fondly upon their wives' friends' husbands. Apples are ususally in the hands of red-blooded American constitutionalists.
Just sayin'.
I have an iphone 4 and have no problems. It’s not the 4s, though, which I read has battery issues.
I guess “just saying” replaced “rhetorically speaking”
It’s the same as saying “I think you know what I mean.” or maybe “Isn’t it obvious?”
Sam, you sound like an old bitter clinger like me. I despise the corruption of the American language.
TC
That what it looks like from here. Apple somehow or other achieved a bit of a lead in smart phones for a year or two but it never takes long for open systems to outgrow closed ones.
I’m a prepaid tracfone user. Its the perfect phone for someone who has no use for all the other crap they put on cell phones these days.
If those people can’t comply, you should fire them!
Here you go.
http://blog.chron.com/techblog/2011/08/android-vs-iphone-reinforcing-some-very-silly-stereotypes/
You’ll probably find that most Blackberry users are the most Conservative, since it’s primarily business users that buy it.
Where is such a battery at?
It doesn't exist.
If you are going to come up with a retort, at least come up with something that makes some sense will ya?
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