So did you succumb to the over-hype, over-priced sales pitch and buy an iPhone with all the bells and whistles?
where’s the option to say “no, but probably will soon.”
Your poll presupposes a very negative judgment of those owning iPhones. As a consequence, your available poll options are skewed in the direction of “Have you stopped beating your wife?” type questions.
And yes I own an iPhone - it was a gift - and frankly I am not using it to get a reaction out of anyone. Why would you think anyone was?
Apple’s hype machine is so slick that even after owning an iPhone for almost two years, I went out and bought another one! Go figure!
I voted for the “but it’s a company phone” because that’s true, but…
I was one coin-flip away from being on stage with Steve last summer (the other developer won the coin-toss, so he got to go up on stage). And I’ve won an Apple design award for an iPhone app I worked on.
Can anybody here top that for iPhone-cred?
My answer isn’t up there. It’s “no I don’t own want but as soon as I am able to get one I will be getting one.” And I have a Touch, a gift from last Christmas.
Your poll sucks. You should have named it “the iPhone hater poll.” Because hating on the iPhone is more cool than owning one and enjoying it, right?
My answer isn’t there either: Where’s the “I want one, but my husband doesn’t want us to spend the money” answer?
Since I spend most of my day in front of a real computer, wishing I had a bigger monitor, I would never use a phone app for any reason. Like dropping back to 1990’s technology.
I know people who actually say stuff like “Oops, sorry. I’m getting a call on my iPhone. Do you mind if I answer it? And by it, I mean my iPhone.”
For some reason, I still call some of these people my friends.
I don’t think I’ve ever once mentioned the fact that I have a Blackberry (free handset, service paid for by work.) It’s just my “phone.”
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Sent from my iPhone.
Do you really want all the “Get your own money” answers?
I have an iPhone, for the most part I love it, and I haven’t stopped beating my wife yet.
Stupid poll.
I have an iPhone, I love it, and I beat my wife up every morning.
Since my iPhone does pretty much everything I want to do most on my desktop computer, it was like finally catching up to what the promise of mobile technology in the 2000s is about.
I can check emails, use Google search, Google Maps and Google Calendar, hit Wikipedia and IMDB, use FaceBook and play Lexulous, visit mostly-read-only websites like this and other boards with the ability to make a post if I have to, read the NY Times and other newspapers, check train schedules and live sports scores, get a live video/radio broadcast of baseball games, visit a calorie counting/exercise regimen tracking website… And I don’t even need a WiFi connection to do it, a 3G cellphone signal is generally good enough!
Most of these sites also have iPhone specific apps so I don’t have to use the mobile web browser, with an interface optimized for the iPhone, which is really sweet. By way of comparison, using the IMDB, Wikipedia or Facebook on my company provided BlackBerry World Edition is a freakin’ PITA.
On top of that it is also a cell phone, an iPod MP3 and video player AND a 2 Megapixel digital camera. If only it had a camera flash it’d be everything I want to do electronically, portable in one device.
I chose “…already have a cell phone. What more is there?”
I think the iPhone is pretty neat, but it the overall cost is just way too much for my needs.
I’ll second this one.
Overpriced? I pay $75/month for my iPhone, which comes with unlimited data, a 7pm evening start time, rollover minutes and texting. Could I get by on a $25/month call-only cellphone? Sure - but I derive so much more utility and enjoyment from my iPhone, that I don’t see myself going back to anything else (unless it’s a 3GS so I can get video).
Have you always been this bad at putting together a decent poll, or did you just try really hard this time?
I love my iPhone, and I am a wife.
I love my iPhone, and I do not beat my wife as I am sure she could kick my ass. Also, she has an iPhone too, despite marketing a competing product.
There’s an App for that!
You mean like “divorce my husband, and then we won’t have to ever discuss our mutual finances” answers? Yes, I could be an asshole and say "I’m getting an iPhone whether you like it or not, and he could be an asshole and say “I’m getting an ATV, whether you like it or not,” and then we could escalate through Stickley bookcases (me) and gold-plated euphoniums (him) until all we have to do is decide who gets custody of the dogs.
I’d rather remain married and not an asshole, and I don’t want an iPhone that bad anyway.
From your lips to God’s ears.