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Anyone else gonna go out and show off their iPhone 5 next weekend?
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Looks just like the 4/4s doubt anyone would even care or notice, unless they notice the back plate...
Only make sense if the phone looked totally different than the 4 than it might turn heads.
But is your penis that small to have people think your phone is cool?? wow...
Only make sense if the phone looked totally different than the 4 than it might turn heads.
But is your penis that small to have people think your phone is cool?? wow...
Thank you!!!!
My friend is so guilty of this too (she's always taping her kid in portrait mode).
Make sure you do the cowboy dance when you walk into the Apple store on launch day!
No. I don't want it robbed!
Will only use in public when absolutely necessary, and I certainly wouldn't use it to "show off".
Will only use in public when absolutely necessary, and I certainly wouldn't use it to "show off".
I remember when I got the iPhone 4, I went out to bars/clubs with my friends in San Francisco and I got a lot of head turns whenever I took out my iPhone
I love having the latest in technology first and other people noticing it and being jelly. I remember when I brought the original iPad to school before anyone else really had it and I couldn't be left alone for a minute without people coming over and wanting to touch it.
Who's da man? You da man!
Gettin' jelly wit it, yo!
When I bought my house, I felt pretty good about myself. When I got a promotion, I felt pretty good about myself. When I lost weight and kept it off, I felt pretty good about myself. When I accomplished other things that took a lot of hard work and planning, I felt good about myself. Buying something that requires little forethought and planning like an iPhone really doesn't have reason to cause feel good feelings.
I like ya leenak.
These are all reasons to feel proud. These things take actual work and planning. The iPhone, not so much. I think if anyone ran up to me to "show off" something like a cell phone that they bought (and probably at a subsidized price) I may kick them in the shin. I mean, it's a $200 + cell phone. It is kind of the norm to spend that much on a phone these days and if you really had to pull your pennies together for something like this then maybe it wasn't the best buying decision you could have made.
I really love my iPhone but I don't feel like I am extraordinary for owning one. On the other hand, when I got the iPhone 1, I do believe I was pretty damn excited. It was unlike many phones I had ever had.
I will show my friends and family only, other half will be the only one to have a play with it, some idiot dropped my brand new 4 the 1st day I got it and I was so gutted, ain't happening this time
Actually, I'm trying to figure out how to hide it from my family. My inlaws are crazy frugal (despite having tons of money) and will probably have tons of questions on why I need it, how much it costs, etc. My parents on the other hand always wants what I have so I have to convince them that what I basically have is the same as theirs. There is really only 1 person in my family which I talk geek and I imagine he is getting the iPhone 5 so we could talk about it to eachother I guess
And my friends are a mix, but many are very frugal as well. None, except a frenemy, would really care about it.
Every now and then, I see a post in another forum, like a news forum or some other non-tech forum, talking about an Apple product and how people only like Apple stuff because its a "status symbol" and the "latest get" and that those people have no common sense.
And I will always post how that's nonsense and that this stuff is too expensive for people to be getting it on a whim, as a status symbol.
Then I see a post like the starter one here in this thread. At which point, in those other forums, I will simply say "never mind".
*sigh*
And I will always post how that's nonsense and that this stuff is too expensive for people to be getting it on a whim, as a status symbol.
Then I see a post like the starter one here in this thread. At which point, in those other forums, I will simply say "never mind".
*sigh*
People feel good about themselves for a lot of things. Obviously if I lost weight and bought a home I'd feel food too. I finish a salad and feel good about myself too.
Let's face it. It's a phone. It's not like you're a girl and got a boob job you wanna show off to everyone.
Only one person I AM going to show my phone too and that's my boss at work. She is so pisssssssssssssed she couldn't get a launch day phone but I'm more pissssssssssed I didn't get the % raise I wanted.
Only one person I AM going to show my phone too and that's my boss at work. She is so pisssssssssssssed she couldn't get a launch day phone but I'm more pissssssssssed I didn't get the % raise I wanted.
I wonder what the difference between a person being "Out on the town to show off their iP5." and "Out on the town and happens to have an iP5." would look like.
Gizmodo article was funny, but mostly sounds like somebody watching the "iPhone Jerk" WAY too closely. Not a fan of that mindset.
I don't pull out my phone any more than anyone else, but it gets noticed a lot more than most other phones. Being the only iP user in my circle, I find it funny that it happens. I mean, no one asks/talks about my buddies and their Galaxy/1X/RMaxx/L900's
Gizmodo article was funny, but mostly sounds like somebody watching the "iPhone Jerk" WAY too closely. Not a fan of that mindset.
I don't pull out my phone any more than anyone else, but it gets noticed a lot more than most other phones. Being the only iP user in my circle, I find it funny that it happens. I mean, no one asks/talks about my buddies and their Galaxy/1X/RMaxx/L900's
This isn't Apple. This is American culture. From Rolex to Ferrari. People like to show our worth and status through objects we possess.
Also the reason we had such a bad economic downturn
"look at me in my million dollar home that I can't really afford"
Few years back, I was at a computer store waiting for it to open, and I saw this young man (17/21 years old) standing in line at the door. I over heard him say, regarding the just released X-box, that he couldn't wait to get it. He said "I just can't wait to hold it in my hands". I thought, goodness, its just a gaming console. Same applies to the iphone 5, and the OP stating he wanted to show it off.
These people need Therapy real bad. Maturity, and common sense are missing.
These people need Therapy real bad. Maturity, and common sense are missing.