Shut Up About the iPhone, Already!

PC Magazine via Yahoo ^ | 6/25/07 | John Dvorak

[Vermonter]

We're not allowed to post any content from PC Magazine here, but Dvorak's column on the iPhone may strike a chord with some here ;-}

Shut Up About the iPhone, Already!

[rxgalfl]

Hitler got less coverage when he invaded Poland.

I stopped reading after the second paragraph which says Hitler got less coverage when he invaded Poland. Just a hypocritical attempt from the writer to name recognition betting on the other people's dislike for Apple.

While I am an Apple user I am not going to get it yet. First I will wait until the mandatory kinks related with a brand new release will be worked out and second when it will become available for use with wireless providers other than AT&T. I can't stand AT&T.

[djf]

ABSOLUTE LOL!!

I grew up in a time of KLH’s, and Advents, and JBL’s, and Marantz’s, when things actually worked. Like phones. You could hear someone and they didn’t fade in and out.

I think the emphasis has shifted from quality to variety. You know, “Look at all the kool things my cell phone can do! (Irregardless of the fact that it’s near useless for actually CALLING someone).

I just got a new Tmobile cell phone (out of necessity, not choice). One of the things that got me was that all of the pictures models in the manual (a mere 375 page manual... FOR A PHONE), they were all smiling brightly and enthusiastically.

Don’t wives or husbands of models ever cheat? Is every message they ever get on their phone a positive message? Are they all, each and every one, being called by the lottery commission to learn about their winnings?

It’s a sort of vanity. Myspace, Myplace, Myway, MyMyMy.

Just let me get a freaking phone that doesn’t fade in and out... we can send data to Jupiter, fer cryin out loud!!

[djf]

It’s not hypocritical, it’s SARDONIC. Look it up.

[meyer]

Paying $550.00 for something that *almost* worked versus $600.00 that is expected to work flawlessly is a no-brainer.

My cell phone works fine - and it was free (well, free with a 2 year contract).

[meyer]

The ipod was brilliantly marketed. People are fadish about portable music players, and probably have been since the "transistor" radio.

Ah yes, the iPod. Anybody want to buy one? It's about the mose useless overpriced toy I've ever purchased. Yes, people can be fadish about these things. Hopefully, most of us learn from our mistakes though.

[durasell]

Until I can find a cell phone on which nobody can call me and I can’t call out to make obligatory return calls, then I’m holding off buying any cell phone.

[6SJ7]

A lot of people don't know it but you can buy cellphones for up to $40,000.

I presume the $40k model comes with a butler to answer the phone!   ;-)

[barker]

Gasp ... I bet you also remember those things called ... letters ... with STAMPS on the top right corner ...

Hey, I can remember when you could leave a letter with the money for the stamp in your mail box and the postman would put the stamp on for you. Our ring on the party line was three long and one short but everyone picked up and listened in. Our first phone number was 493J.

[listenhillary]

The technocrati must have the latest toys to be cool.

[rxgalfl]

It’s not hypocritical, it’s SARDONIC. Look it up.

I believe you are giving the writer too much credit. It's not sardonic by far (and no, I didn't have to look it up!), it's completely...lame. One weak analogy trying to make a weak point.

[George W. Bush]

Hey, I can remember when you could leave a letter with the money for the stamp in your mail box and the postman would put the stamp on for you.

Back during the Thirties and Forties, farm families would often leave a note for the postal carrier asking him to do chores for them if they were away for a day or two. Things like milking the family milk cow, feeding/watering cattle/chickens/hogs/sheep, etc. Before my time but I saw a program on it. Those old postal carriers really knew their patrons, carried a lot of community gossip before telephones and radio became universal.

Our first phone number was 493J.

Butler-x284 here. I still have that number, now translated to modern dialing. And I still have that original black rotary-dial wall phone on my wall too. These high school kids I sometimes hire are horrified to see it, confused if they have to use it to call home. They think they're in the Dark Ages! LOL.

[Mr. Thorne]

Well, you ought to love this, then.

http://www.apple.com/iphone/phone/

[Liberty Valance]

Just get a bucket and pour money in it.

[Tribune7]

I’m happier with AT&T/Cingular than I was with Verizon. I have only heard bad things about T-Mobile.

[Pravious]

The way some PC people get deranged about Apple product reminds me of the way RATS start sputtering and turning colors if the name “Rush Limbaugh” is mentioned in their immediate vicinity.

Dvoak just comes off like a jealous, whiny crybaby in his column - which can be condensed to one word:

“WAAAAHHHHHHHHH!”

[Terpfen]

I guess Cingular and Apple are guessing the WiFi option on the iPhone will pick up the slack with consumers...

No, they aren't. Jobs explained this when announcing the iPhone; 3G isn't widely available enough to justify having the company's first phone use it. If iPhone 2 is going to use 3G, AT&T needs to pick up the pace on 3G rollout nationwide.

[Zechariah11]

Nice looking hand. George Castanza?

[Terpfen]

I feel like telling them they're going to get brain cancer if they wear them for long enough...

Mind citing the study or studies that say exposure to Bluetooth frequencies will cause cancer? The people who tried claiming that WiFi causes cancer have been proven wrong.

[Aquinasfan]

LOL! But then, I'm one of those people with spinning hard disks in my eyeballs. The iPod really is "the next big thing"!

But not for me. I won't be plonking down $600 for one. I pay a whopping $10/mo. for my Tracfone, and I won't pay a penny more! I'm saving my money for a Bravia. I'll get much more use out of that.