Anyone ever had their iPhone experience stomped on...

[joeblow7777]

We buy iPhones because we are particular about our hardware; if you guys think OP is being so ridiculous, why don't you just use an Android phone that some store employee has spiked to you from across the room? That's a much more rugged and proletarian experience.

So you're basically enforcing the stereotype that Apple users care about style and pretty things over substance and functionality.

It's pretty silly to suggest that if one doesn't get their jollies unboxing and admiring their beautiful new iPhone then there's no reason to buy one. This is exactly why people call iPhone users iSheep, saying we'll buy anything as long as there's a pretty Apple logo on it.

I get where the OP is coming from and given the choice I'd prefer to open up my own purchase as well, but I also understand why for most consumers what this salesperson did would be considered outstanding customer service, not an offence.

 

[Patrick Boyle]

So you're basically enforcing the stereotype that Apple users care about style and pretty things over substance and functionality.

Not sure how you got that from my post (maybe some of your own stereotypes?)

I don't think that style and pretty things should be the only factors in choosing a mobile device, but I do think they are important, as I think they are to a lot of iPhone users.

It's pretty clear now that purely on a feature-by-feature basis, Android is more or less on par with iOS. Everything you can do on one platform you can do on another. So what does that leave us? It leaves us style and pretty things. It leaves amazing hardware quality (which is as much functional as it is pretty, btw), and all the intangible, lovely details of Apple's OS.

My argument is, if you're someone who is happy to grab any old molested device off the shelf and shove it up against your face, why pay the extra money for Apple's lovingly packaged and curated experience?

 

[joeblow7777]

Perhaps I was a bit harsh, but I just think that there's so much more to getting a new device than the initial unboxing.

 

[9646829]

Perhaps I was a bit harsh, but I just think that there's so much more to getting a new device than the initial unboxing.

Sure there is, but the unboxing is part of the experience of getting the new device to some people.

 

[Dontazemebro]

Grow up you big baby its just a phone

 

[merlindbergh]

Someone needs a life.