I’m curious whether the iPhone will live up to its mega-hype.
a) Are you planning on buying an iPhone when it comes out?
b) If the answer to (a) is no, are you planning on buying a future version of it?
c) Do you know people who are planning on buying an iPhone when it comes out?
My answers
a) No
b) Yes (waiting for bug fixes, GPS, better camera, and 3G)
c) Yes (1 at the moment)
a) No
b) Maybe, depending on how much the price drops
c) No (I know a couple of people who are “maybes”, though)
LilShieste
I thought about it, but no; I’m not going to get one when it comes out. I’ve heard they’ll be $500 or $600, depending on the model, and I have other things I can spend that kind of money on.
Will I get one later? Perhaps. I like my Macs and I like my iPod. But I’ll have to look into it a bit. I’m on Cingular, which has become AT&T. When I got my present (Motorola) phone I got a complimentary month of Internet access. For some reason it would not allow me to access my webmail, which is one of the things I wanted to do. After the free period they wanted to charge a monthly fee for Internet access. Twenty bucks? I don’t remember. But I’m already paying more for phone service than I use, and having to pay for Internet on top of that is a bit outrageous. (Many is the time though, when I wished I could use MapQuest in the car or just look something up.) Before I’ll shell out a lot of money for a phone that has as good a browser as the iPhone seems to have, I’ll want to know how much it will cost to use it.
I don’t know anyone who is panning to buy one.
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Using my parents’ Mac for the past week has given me a new appreciation for tools with actual physical buttons on them. Not touchscreens, not pressure pads, not nubbins: buttons.
iPhone? iDon’tthinkso.
No
Yes, must have bug fixes and a HUGE price drop. Unlikely though for a couple years. Competitors will win out here.
No
a) No.
b) Probably not. I don’t like the idea of using a touchscreen with my fingers. I hate, hate, hate having fingerprints on my touchscreen phone, so always use the stylus. Am I understanding correctly that the iPhone doesn’t have a stylus? Because it’s so much “better” to just use your fingers? Also, reports in places like engadget aren’t too praise-worthy. They on-screen keyboard isn’t all it’s hyped up to be and so forth. Plus, I like that I can easily and cheaply download all sorts of random programs, registry tweaks, etc… or my Windows Mobile phone. Apple has announced that there will be some 3rd party apps, but they will undergo scrutiny and so forth and that means there will be less of them, and they will cost more.
c) Yeah, I know a guy who in the past three or four years became in love with all things Apple. Last time i saw him in April I was showing off my new WM5 phone, and he asked why I bothered to get a new phone when the iPhone was so close to being released.
a) Five hundred bucks? No freaking way.
b) I want a phone. A teeny, tiny phone, that gets good reception and battery life, and is the size of a Zippo lighter. Or smaller. Teeny. Tiny. A two line screen. SMS. Possibly an MP3 player. But it must be teeny. And tiny.
c) Probably. I know plenty of people like bouv’s guy who have little drips of precum staining the front of their drawers in anticipation of the release.
My employer keeps trying to give me a Blackberry, and so far, I’ve managed to resist them. I hatehatehate wearing shit on my belt, and I type fast enough that attempting to write an email on anything smaller than a laptop keyboard frustrates the hell outta me.
No, yes, no.
I’ve already announced to my classes that I’ll get an iPhone the first time some student tries to use hers in class. 
a) No.
b) No.
c) Yes – a co-worker and her husband both plan on buying one, even though she makes less than $10 an hour and he makes some similar wage.
a) Nope. I hate the thought of buying anything first-gen right at release, where you pay a premium in order to discover all the problems the product has in the wild. That, and it has a camera in it. I work in dozens of Federal buildings, from essentially unsecured to extremely tightly secured, every week. Cameras are kisses of death when trying to do your thing around government facilities.
b) Assuming that the price drops significantly, and there’s a camera-free model, an outside possibility. But who am I kidding? Everybody LOVES cameras in their phones.
c) Nope, and I’m glad for it.
a) no
b) there’d have to be a significant price drop AND it would have to work with my provider (I refuse to sign on with AT&T)
c) I know a few people who think it’s majorly cool, but not one of them is willing to spend the $$$
I wouldn’t spend that much for a phone unless it truly did something special. I’ve got a BlackBerry (the pearl) and I got it for pretty cheap. I can’t imagine wanting more from a phone. I get to play movies? Wheee. I get an ipod? Mine can play.music too. I get the internet. Life is grand.
I want one.
Hubby wants one.
BIL wants one.
Our company will probably buy them for us, if not right away then in a couple of months when the furor starts to die down.
No. I don’t even know what an iPhone is.
I will probably wait until my current contract is up, so they spiff me a few buck toward a new phone, but I am getting one.
a) no
b) could happen
c) yes, a coworker is going to try to get one as soon as he can
They don’t do anything a Blackberry Pearl doesn’t do, so I don’t see the point of paying all that money.
a. no
b. no. I’ve yet to buy an apple product and doubt this will be the first.
c. no. I’ve never heard a person in real life even say “iPhone” much less express any interest in buying one.