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kitchTA
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ive had my iphone since september 2007..
i think its kinda embarrassing that rogers is only releasing it now.
alot of shit is designed for the american consumers and Canadians have to use back door methods to get shit...
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Apr-30-2008 00:58
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kitchTA
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in addition.
i have a standard cell phone plan on my iphone, 50bucks a month.. but there is no data..
data rates are reaallllly expensive in canada
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Apr-30-2008 01:00
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Stilez
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Registered: Dec 2001
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Did anyone read the comments for that article?
lol
| quote: | Mister E wrote:Posted 2008/04/29
at 12:37 AM ET
The Iphone in and of itself isn't a problem for anyone.
It's just really creepy to see people get super excited over the release of ANY product, especially one that is basically a re-tread of something we've already had for many, many years. The Iphone will revolutionize nothing. I mean, it's a PHONE. It MAY at BEST make your work life mildly more convenient but it's nothing to get excited about. Many, many of the people I see excited over this sort of thing don't even work in business, they just think it's "neat".
The automobile changed the world, the 1988 Dodge lineup did not.
Radio changed the world, sattelite radio will not.
Motion pictures changed the world, motion pictures on a bigger screen with surround sound did not.
Television changed the world, HDTV will not.
The telephone (and again to a lesser extent the cell phone) changed the world, the Iphone will not.
It's all just the same old, same old in a newer package with features of questionable actual use and a glitzy ad campaign designed to make you buy something you already have.
Personally I wonder about anyone that gets excited about ANY product, whether it's the new spring line of clothes, the 2008 roll out of vehicles or whatever digital crap is making "news" this month. New STUFF just isn't that exciting, expecially if it's really not going to make your life appreciably better. It's all just proof that professional marketers are smarter than the average Joe - our job is to keep as much of our money in our pockets as we can and their job is to seperate us from our money as fast as they can. It's a battle and they seem to be winning in a lot of cases and with less and less effort each year.
When people start talking about loving Apple (or any corporation) all is pretty much lost. Not that you have to HATE corporations either, generally speaking I don't. But to succumb to the idea of brand loyalty is scary. LOYALTY is a powerful concept and to apply it to a faceless body whose only mission is to take as much money from you as they can get away with without making you angry enough to stop giving them that money is inappropriate.
But what do I know, I don't carry any sort of cell phone. Never saw the point, I have phones at home and at work that ring plenty already. |
| quote: | Dave in Alderbush wrote:Posted 2008/04/29
at 12:26 AM ET
Thank you early adopters for bearing the outragous cost of pointless new products so that the good things in them can be pillaged and eventually filter down to the mainstream and be put to good use. We live in very interesting times where people are actually willing to plunk down $2,400 per year (if you think that iPhone plans are going to be less than $200 per month in Canada you are dreaming) so that they can browse the web and read their email while they hurtle down the freeway at 70mph in their Mini Coopers. |
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Apr-30-2008 01:55
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pat_stelly
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Registered: Mar 2008
Location: Toronto, Canada
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well its about time i love mine!
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Apr-30-2008 03:03
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