My boss has altered her sig to read “sent from my iPhone, please pardon the typos”.
It’s the MY and the brand name part. All it really needs to say is:
“Sent by phone.”
Sent from my Tandy TRS-80.
One of the engineers at work changed her sig to something like “Sorry if my message is brief, but I’m typing with my thumbs!”
Bragging, indeed.
Watched from my COLOR TELEVISION SET
Wait, you people type with your THUMBS?? Am I the only one who holds the phone in one hand, poking daintily with the index finger of the other? I still get tons of mis-types, but after I turned off that fucking Autocorrect I scream less often these days.
I changed mine to “Sent from my Underwood Standard No. 4 Typewriter”.
Thumbs are weird on a touchscreen, but perfectly good for a physical keyboard.
I don’t know why.
My iPod Touch signature reads:
Sent from my iPod Touch.
So please excuse any typos, misspelt words, and lazy abbreviations. The keypad is tiny and my fingers are fat!
Same here. It gives a context for the brevity and the “I’m always on the job” mentality!
You think they actually believe it?
No, you’re not. In fact, I think you’re the guy standing behind watching me make a fool of myself while trying to index-poke.
Come to think of it, when I had an iPod Touch and sent emails from it, I usually changed this message so it said things like “Sent from the gym” or wherever I was.
+1. For me it’s useful information. If a message is unusually short or peppered with odd errors or autocorrection, the sig “sent from my iPhone” or “sent from Blackberry” helps me sort what’s going on out. When the iPhone came out, oh, however many years ago it seemed perhaps a tad pretentious, but not anymore.
Yes. Trust the autocorrect, it knows what it’s doing.
I hold my phone sideways in both hands, holding with thumb and middle finger, and type with both index fingers. I’m weird.
And I left the auto-sig on my iPhone because I don’t send E-mail from it often and forget it’s even there. If I’m actually sending work E-mail from my iPhone, this means I’m being disturbed on my vacation, and you damned well better believe I’m going to signal that I am not at work and not able/willing to do a lot of more common things at the moment.
Mine says "Sent from my field office.
I could never do the thumbs thing. With a flip phone, I can hold it in the palm of my hand and type with the same thumb, but not both thumbs. With a touch screen (that lacks physical buttons) I type (quickly too) with my other index finger. These days, I use Swype.
…NOT sent from my iPhone…
Sheesh. The anti-Apple forces are out, I see. I cannot believe people find this pretentious. I get e-mails from Blackberry users that say the same thing. As others have noted, it helps explain if your response is terse or has typos, or even why you might not be very accessible.
Both my iPhone and iPad have these messages, and I see no reason to change them. I have an iPhone, you might have a Blackberry, you have a Samsung, you have an HTC, you don’t have a smartphone at all… who cares? It’s just as stupid, IMO, to avoid mentioning it, as it is to excessively mention it.
I changed my Outlook signature to read “sent from my iPhone” just so people would think I was really good at phone-typing.