as an apple fan, i’ve obviously been following all the hype and press around the impending iphone launch. i want one but unfortch i’m stuck in canada with ass-raping cell phone rates. nevertheless, the level of vitriol and buffoonery in the interweb never ceases to amaze me. you can almost break down the types of conversations into groups.
preachers:
“i pronounce that the ipod doth sucketh” despite never having actually used one.
economists:
they’ll usually point to the TCO (Total Cost of Ownership). “WTF $600 + $60/month for 24 months!” ummm…right because every other cell phone you buy gives you free usage for two years.
feature-geeks:
“it doesn’t have (insert feature here) that a freebie phone has!” right. and how many times have you used the pickle jar widget? oh what’s that? you can’t figure out how to find the widget buried 30 menus down? oops.
brand haters:
closely related to the feature geek. hates on the iphone cause its apple and would rather have the Chi-Tai-Soo brand phone they picked up for $2 but then had to take 6 months of language lessons to learn some obscure dialect of Mongolian Highlands Chinese to read the menus.
microsoft schills:
“apple sucks microsoft rules!” – um, i didn’t get my check from microsoft last month.
apple fanboys:
“steve jobs! woo!” – ’nuff said.
oh and then there’s the asshat (Dvorak) who’s comparing the iphone to hitler.
there’s more but i’m getting bored of this already. i want to play with an iphone and once i do i’ll let you know what i think (although you don’t care).