Greetings from iPhone Hell

[Starlord]

I have a Tracfone Motorola flip phone that cost me less than $19 USD at Wal-Mart. It doesn't play tunes, take pictures, walk your dog or wash your car. It makes and receives telephone calls. It makes those calls from everywhere I have ever asked it to. This is more than can be said for Sprint, Qwest, Alltel, AT&T, Verizon, or Fred's Cheap Fones. I am on a fixed income, but even if I weren't, I would not blow $500 on an iphone.

[Polenicus]

I wondered about that. Especially the customer and dealer who I swear were born in 867-land. I was half expecting someone to call me and tell me their car was locked in the lot and expect me to do something about it.

I'll take mine back if you take yours

If they ask if they can get the phone in pink camo or grape hit, you'll know for sure.

And GK... where are you finding all these evil cat pics? Last one looked like Mr. Burns, this one is like Kitty Vader! They're like anti-lolcats!

And as for the iPhone phenomenon... Apple is a company exceptionally adept at profiting from stupid. I love their computers, I have two myself currently, and have owned a long line of their machines. BUT I know that you NEVER buy the first iteration of ANYTHING they make, and if you can't resist the 'omgcool' factor of the machines and make an impartial price/performance decision, DON'T BUY APPLE.

Seriously, Apple products are like crack for retarded people.

[ArenaBoy]

Actually, any TRUE die-hard Mac addict

1) Is rolling their eyes at the iPhone

Which is what I'm doing. It looks cool but seriously I've got a macbook which is serving me well and a 80GB ipod for my ever increasing music collection. 4GB or 8GB won't enough for me to begin with as I have a 11GB music collection and 5GB worth of movies. 8GB is not going to be enough obviously and Gravekeeper is right; it is Apple's PS3.

[Jester]

BUT I know that you NEVER buy the first iteration of ANYTHING they make...

Call me crazy (and many people do), but I dare say you should never buy the first iteration of ANYTHING, Apple or otherwise. Let the "Me First" crowd get their hands on it, let the company work out any and all bugs, let the marketplace bring the price down to reasonable levels before you actually buy it....and by this point, chances are good that the company has not only fixed the initial problems, but made some improvements and maybe even advancements over the initial overpriced overhyped version.

Of course, this is the advice of a non-technogeek. I may have no idea what I am talking about. But then, my cell phone works just fine, and I am not shelling out 5 bills for a new one I don't yet need.

[Andara Bledin]

Call me crazy (and many people do), but I dare say you should never buy the first iteration of ANYTHING, Apple or otherwise.

Generally speaking, first run Nintendo devices are solid. They may fail in the marketplace but the mechanics are generally sound out of the gate.

^-.-^

[Noelegy]

Nah, I prefer the radioactive scorpions cleverly hiding in bottles to sting you in the face. But it's Uwe Boll. I'll take whatever I can get in the way of him getting dead.

Who is Uwe Boll and what has he done to inspire such hostility? Yeah, I could just Google it but I think it would be more fun to read your explanations.

[Andara Bledin]

I kept meaning to post this, but I kept forgetting.

I'm sitting here, listening to a little System of a Down, and one of the songs has some lines that I feel are particularly fitting for the iPhone iDiocy.

They disguise it
Hypnotize it
Television
Made you buy it

^-.-^

[Andara Bledin]

Who is Uwe Boll and what has he done to inspire such hostility? Yeah, I could just Google it but I think it would be more fun to read your explanations.

Uwe Boll is a German filmmaker (technically speaking) primarily based on video games. His atrocities include Bloodrayne (there's a second one *sob*) and House of the Dead.

^-.-^

[Kara]

Generally speaking, first run Nintendo devices are solid.

Very true. My Wii likes to freeze up about 3 times out of 10 when I press the Reset button, but I've learned to just use the Home button on the wii-mote to just exit back to the menu.

I can't seem to get the Wii Shop Channel to load at all. I can get the Forecast and News Channels okay, but the Shop Channel doesn't seem to want to load. But those are very minor infractions (I have yet to buy a Classic Controller to play Virtual Console games anyway).

[JustADude]

Uwe Boll is a German filmmaker (technically speaking) primarily based on video games. His atrocities include Bloodrayne (there's a second one *sob*) and House of the Dead.

GAH! So now I know who to blame for those! I vote we go make a Reality TV Movie called Kill Boll!

[Kara]

GAH! So now I know who to blame for those!

Yeah, he's also doing a movie for Postal (remember that one?), Dungeon Siege, Far Cry, and Alone in the Dark II.

You'll notice he only goes for games that only did moderately well (and that's an exaggeration). I read somewhere that the German government has some kind of policy that if you make a movie and it bombs completely, they'll cover your losses. He's doing this crap on purpose.

[ArenaBoy]

I read somewhere that the German government has some kind of policy that if you make a movie and it bombs completely, they'll cover your losses. He's doing this crap on purpose.

Not exactly Germany but in France they help musicians, artists, writers, and anyone who does this sort of thing by giving them two years by financing them and if you do well you get further help but if you fail, oh well.

[Andara Bledin]

Yeah, he's also doing a movie for Postal (remember that one?), Dungeon Siege, Far Cry, and Alone in the Dark II.

You'll notice he only goes for games that only did moderately well (and that's an exaggeration). I read somewhere that the German government has some kind of policy that if you make a movie and it bombs completely, they'll cover your losses. He's doing this crap on purpose.

It was a tax loophole that was closed within the last year.

So, now, I don't know what the producers' escuses are for giving that man work.

^-.-^

[friendofjimmyk]

Well, at least we've identified the problem

SW: I'm not getting any service! I need to know what is going on!
ME: I'm sorry to hear you're not getting service. Where are you right now?
SW: In my home! No service in the bedroom, nothing in the kitchen, nowhere in the house!
ME: Well, your service is active, and I assume you had signal in the home before?
SW: Yes, until a few hours ago.
ME: I'm not seeing any outages in your area. Are you getting signal on your phone?
SW: Of course I am! My wireless phone is working fine! It's the other phones that I'm calling about.
ME: I'm sorry, what?
SW: My home. My phones in my house aren't working.
ME: Your landline?
SW: Yes, that's what I've been trying to tell you.
ME: Ma'am we only provide wireless service for you. Unfortunately, I can't help you with your home phone service.
SW: Well, what am I supposed to do?
ME (must...resist...urge...for sarcastic....retort...): Perhaps you should contact your landline provider.
SW: But only this phone is working. That's why I called you!

I really have nothing to add here, except a paraphrased quote from Calvin & Hobbes: "Sometimes I think the surest sign of intelligent life in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us."

Ouch! This produced the same feeling in my head that I get when I eat ice cream too fast.

[CrazedClerk]

I had a call yesterday from someone who just got an iPhone but apparently didn't think the whole thing through.

You see he wanted to port his number over to AT&T WITHOUT incurring a cancellation charge on his account with my company...not going to happen. Now he's out over $700.