# Poll: Are you, or anyone you know, planning on getting an iPhone? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 23, 2007, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-are-you-or-anyone-you-know-planning-on-getting-an-iphone/409139 "2007-06-23T17:41:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Polerius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d78d45/32.png) [@Polerius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polerius)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2007, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-are-you-or-anyone-you-know-planning-on-getting-an-iphone/409139/1 "2007-06-23T17:41:12Z")
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) ---
**Author:** ![Galena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@Galena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Galena)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2007, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-are-you-or-anyone-you-know-planning-on-getting-an-iphone/409139/2 "2007-06-23T17:43:58Z")
a) No b) Maybe, depending on how much the price drops c) No (I know a couple of people who are “maybes”, though) LilShieste ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2007, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-are-you-or-anyone-you-know-planning-on-getting-an-iphone/409139/3 "2007-06-23T17:48:40Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2007, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-are-you-or-anyone-you-know-planning-on-getting-an-iphone/409139/4 "2007-06-23T17:53:46Z")
No. No. No. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2007, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-are-you-or-anyone-you-know-planning-on-getting-an-iphone/409139/5 "2007-06-23T18:32:29Z")
No. No. No. 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. ---
**Author:** ![ParentalAdvisory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/53a042/32.png) [@ParentalAdvisory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParentalAdvisory)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2007, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-are-you-or-anyone-you-know-planning-on-getting-an-iphone/409139/6 "2007-06-23T19:35:34Z")
No Yes, must have bug fixes and a HUGE price drop. Unlikely though for a couple years. Competitors will win out here. No ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2007, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-are-you-or-anyone-you-know-planning-on-getting-an-iphone/409139/7 "2007-06-23T19:49:55Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![black\_rabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f19dbf/32.png) [@black\_rabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/black_rabbit)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2007, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-are-you-or-anyone-you-know-planning-on-getting-an-iphone/409139/8 "2007-06-23T19:55:56Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2007, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-are-you-or-anyone-you-know-planning-on-getting-an-iphone/409139/9 "2007-06-23T20:30:36Z")
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. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2007, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-are-you-or-anyone-you-know-planning-on-getting-an-iphone/409139/10 "2007-06-23T20:59:56Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f19dbf/32.png) [@Only\_Mostly\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Only_Mostly_Dead)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2007, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-are-you-or-anyone-you-know-planning-on-getting-an-iphone/409139/11 "2007-06-23T21:33:17Z")
[QUOTE=Polerius] 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? [/QUOTE] 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. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2007, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-are-you-or-anyone-you-know-planning-on-getting-an-iphone/409139/12 "2007-06-23T21:39:00Z")
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 $$$ ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2007, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-are-you-or-anyone-you-know-planning-on-getting-an-iphone/409139/13 "2007-06-23T22:59:45Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2007, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-are-you-or-anyone-you-know-planning-on-getting-an-iphone/409139/14 "2007-06-23T23:11:23Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2007, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-are-you-or-anyone-you-know-planning-on-getting-an-iphone/409139/15 "2007-06-23T23:22:35Z")
No. I don’t even know what an iPhone is. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2007, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-are-you-or-anyone-you-know-planning-on-getting-an-iphone/409139/16 "2007-06-23T23:43:12Z")
[QUOTE=Cunctator] No. I don’t even know what an iPhone is. [/QUOTE] [One of these](http://www.apple.com/iphone/). ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2007, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-are-you-or-anyone-you-know-planning-on-getting-an-iphone/409139/17 "2007-06-24T00:31:54Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2007, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-are-you-or-anyone-you-know-planning-on-getting-an-iphone/409139/18 "2007-06-24T00:36:13Z")
[QUOTE=Polerius] 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? [/QUOTE] a) no b) could happen c) yes, a coworker is going to try to get one as soon as he can ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2007, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-are-you-or-anyone-you-know-planning-on-getting-an-iphone/409139/19 "2007-06-24T02:34:46Z")
They don’t do anything a Blackberry Pearl doesn’t do, so I don’t see the point of paying all that money. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2007, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-are-you-or-anyone-you-know-planning-on-getting-an-iphone/409139/20 "2007-06-24T04:07:38Z")
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. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-are-you-or-anyone-you-know-planning-on-getting-an-iphone/409139.md?page=2)