I HATE APPLE

btw i'm not an iphone zealot. i still like blackberrys. if you have an apple computer at home, an iphone is wonderful.

i already schlep around an iPod - sometimes - and it's no big deal. i think i just like having separate devices. (and each one's smaller than an iPhone.)

there you go talking about size again

im very well aware of the iphone's shortcomings. it being TOO BIG never crossed my mind.

Well some of us don't carry purses.

Fuck a blackberry.

vvv blackberry user

PLEASE. i wear tight as fuck jeans and the iphone has never been too big fit in my pockets.

Is that yr iPhone ringing or are you just glad to see me?

No way is a iphone too big. No way. It fits everywhere I've ever had to put it.

Including the road. It survived that tumble btw.

I'm glad you clarified that.

as camille paglia a user who initially resisted on several grounds, including that i preferred a somewhat narrower clamshell phone, the advantage of the iphone is that, while not without problems, it's the best phone/email/web available in a single device. if you don't care about email and web, you're probably better off with ipod + separate phone (preferably on Verizon, in the US). if you do care a lot about email and web, and also about marginal cost and/or tactility (both of keys and overall) and/or c+p, get a blackberry. if you want the best overall device, shortcomings included, get an iphone and don't look back.

the last sentence rings true

2k overall

i use voip on my iphone

― BIG HOOS is not a nacho purist fwiw (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, December 29, 2008 4:25 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

from the excelsior thread. didn't want to continue this convo there. my phone bill is $90/month. how does this translate into $2k? please let me know.

I wish the voice ws better on iphone : (

24 * 90 = 2160

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/9/15223525_85431314fa.jpg

i was calculating one years worth of bills--so where is this iphone alternative where you don't pay monthly fees?

besides retards who like to use VOIP on an ipoh touch

i have an iphone; the plan was only $10-20 more per month than other comparable voice + data plans. i guess the cheap alternative is to not spring for voice + data.

exactly.

Fuck an iphone, that calculator is SO CUTE.

yeah ok the ipod touch is totally useless because it does not force you to buy a voice and data plan from AT&T.

autumn almanac otm though, we need more mustachioed information technology in the 2009

my toaster doesn't force me to buy a voice and data plan from AT&T either. but it doesn't make phone calls.

(it makes toast)

I requested my workplace's wifi password and was told that it was six pages long.

I don't know if that's hyperbole or not, but fuck me sitting here typing in a six-page password with my two thumbs.

Working on hacking the wine bar next door, but I don't know any French.

My iphone doesn't force me to buy from at&t because we don't have at&t here. I could buy one from one of four telcos because our govt actually bothered to do something nice for us in this instance.

I requested my workplace's wifi password and was told that it was six pages long.

'do not write down your password' etc etc

ok, please bear with me as i am a total n00b, and easily confused by interchangable terms ... but it sounds like the best thing to do is

1) set up the time capsule as the WDS base on 5ghz

2) set up the airport extreme as a 2.4 ghz WDS relay, using an Ethernet cable

3) set up the airport express as a WDS remote

i was calculating one years worth of bills--so where is this iphone alternative where you don't pay monthly fees?

― cutty, Monday, December 29, 2008 9:38 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this. all the blog posts that smugly post the REAL price of the iphone seem to ignore the fact that all cell phones cost money every month.

anyway, different people different needs, but im with cutty, i like having everything in one place, i like having a nice thing to show off photos & videos, i like not having to carry 2 devices, i like not missing calls anymore because im listening to my ipod.

a dude asked to be talked out of buying an iphone. I attempted to do so. I'm a smug motherfucker!!

i like not missing calls anymore because im listening to my ipod.

I mitigate that by listening to my ipod instead of my iphone.

you mean so you DO miss calls?

The iPhone is awesome. It's just that I hate AT&T with the fire of a thousand suns. I hate Apple for doing that deal. Buttholes.

The BBerry sucks, unless your whole life revolves around push email and running AIM in the background. In which case, you are like every other twenty-something woman out there who spends way too much time needlessly thmbng urslf.

you mean so you DO miss calls?

― s1ocki, Tuesday, December 30, 2008 11:35 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

q.v. Answering the Door thread

Fuck paying > $1000/year for a phone. Hell, fuck paying for a phone at all when work will pick up the tab!

Sorry to hijack this thread, but...

New question: Should I buy a BlackBerry Curve or a BlackBerry Storm or an iPhone?

I don't care at all about cost (my work is paying for it, yay). I also don't care about iTunes or iPods or any of that. YouTube would be nice to look at I guess, and Shazam sounds cool. What about the touch screens? Are they as big of a pain in the ass as I fear? Like, I was at a Verizon store a couple weeks ago and the sales guy was giving me a demonstration and even he was having trouble typing in stuff. And I thought, "Yikes! If this guy's a professional and even he can't type a destination into the GPS navigation system with hitting backspace five times, how the hell am I gonna be able to do this?" And I guess what I really want to know is what can a BlackBerry do that an iPhone can't and vice-versa?

i was calculating one years worth of bills--so where is this iphone alternative where you don't pay monthly fees?

― cutty, Monday, December 29, 2008 9:38 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I pay only $25 every three months for my cheapass Virgin Mobile USA phone. It's great!

I've had a Blackberry 8900 for a year now and it sucks. Get one iPhone.

I don't think that the iPhone does YouTube yet, does it? I mean, it doesn't support Flash?

The Storm's touchscreen is weird and the GUI is fugly. The iPhone smokes it in every conceivable way. Don't get a Storm if you are going BB, get one with real keys.

the iPhone touchscreen is a bit of a pain in the ass, and you will have trouble at the beginning, but you will get over it, for the most part, as you get used to it and as you recognize the various other operational advantages it has over the blackberry

iphone has done youtube out of the box since day one!

if you get a blackberry, get the bold.

What major thing is it missing, then? I thought it was flash.

when you have an iphone, people are like "oh cool, an iphone", or they get all creepy and hater-ish about it: "oh an iphone, any other status symbols you want to show us?". if you have a blackberry nobody cares.

that's my experience, anyway.