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hey, how many of you think that you cannot live without your iPhone?
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You people are very sad indeed, and slightly over dramatic. It's not oxygen, it's just an overly distracting luxury. try living without food or water, like people in the third world!
Man, this kind of thread is contemptuous! Petty, bourgeois piffle.
Man, this kind of thread is contemptuous! Petty, bourgeois piffle.
Agreed. It would be a difficult adjustment, but I would survive.
Are you going to North Korea? Why?
I could live with out it but its hard. I recently downgraded to my old Razr to save money. It didn't last two weeks and I am now back to my iPhone. Not going to try that again.
I am very surprised by a lot of the replies in this thread. I have a prepaid Plan on a Nokia 1600 and after contemplating an upgrade, I've decided that I am sticking with the Nokia. Why? I feel like I am actually able to LIVE without so much technology.
I had a bit of a revelation how addicted I had become to gadgets when the computers in our apartment died one after the other in a short amount of time. We were left without access to the internet for a couple of weeks and what happened? I became more productive! I got off my butt and got all the stuff done that needed to get done around the flat. Painting, hanging stuff, cleaning the office, longer walks with the dog, etc.
The computers are fixed and we added an ipad to our collection and I feel like I'm back to my habitual surfing ways. I decided that if I were to get a smartphone, I'd just mindlessly pull it out the millisecond I felt bored to play angry birds and check the latest news on Macrumors instead of looking at the world around me.
And besides why pay 50 a month for the occasional phone calls/text messages from my gf and parents?
I had a bit of a revelation how addicted I had become to gadgets when the computers in our apartment died one after the other in a short amount of time. We were left without access to the internet for a couple of weeks and what happened? I became more productive! I got off my butt and got all the stuff done that needed to get done around the flat. Painting, hanging stuff, cleaning the office, longer walks with the dog, etc.
The computers are fixed and we added an ipad to our collection and I feel like I'm back to my habitual surfing ways. I decided that if I were to get a smartphone, I'd just mindlessly pull it out the millisecond I felt bored to play angry birds and check the latest news on Macrumors instead of looking at the world around me.
And besides why pay 50 a month for the occasional phone calls/text messages from my gf and parents?
i know what you mean about being more productive, but i've learned to do that while having my iPhone on me 24/7.. i don't use my computer as much as i used to before.
Its just a mobile device. Granted I tend to use it a lot more than my PC but I could live without. Not having an attachment also helps to pickout good alternatives to it in the future.
I lived without it before I got one - but if for some reason I can't have one anymore, I'll be fine with an iPod touch along with a cheap phone.
I know precisely what you mean. A lot of people could learn from your example. These gadgets are luxuries and superfluous piffle, which we can easily live without, but kid ourselves into thinking that we cannot.
I have a Fuji F300EXR for my photos, a Kindle for my books, and a Nokia 1800 - possibly the most basic phone they make, for my calls & texts. Anything else is excess, and each one of these devices performs the equivalent task that the iPhone would perform, 200% better!
I'll just say that I have no desire to use any other phone other than the iPhone.
Sure there may be better phones but I don't really care.
Sure there may be better phones but I don't really care.
We're not in the third world so why try living like we are?
You need something of substance in your life, to replace the addiction to this unnecessary device.
I have three iPhones on contracts. If one battery is low when I have to leave for work, I grab one of the others.
I wouldn't die without it but I have terminal cancer so my phone and iPad are my entertainment for 12 hours a day. So I'd be really bored without it!
Shoes, I could give up(hate wearing shoes). Sex, no way in hell. Sorry iPhone.
I could live without an iPhone as long as I also wasn't expected to text people back, constantly respond to facebook queries or check my calendar for appointments.
As a matter of fact, if I didn't have to do all that stuff--I might prefer disconnecting. Throw in a remote rural wooded lot and I'll give up my computer as well. I think I'd have to at least have a TV though.
As a matter of fact, if I didn't have to do all that stuff--I might prefer disconnecting. Throw in a remote rural wooded lot and I'll give up my computer as well. I think I'd have to at least have a TV though.
I turn my iPhone4 on 2 to 3 times a month to see if it still works. I surf for 10 minutes and then turn it off. My LG phone gets turned on less than once a month. I rarely make phone calls on either cell phone. I bought the iPhone because I think it is a neat gadget even though I rarely use it.
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I can, but my original purpose of getting an iPhone was to eliminate other devices: MP3 player, day to day digital camera, laptop with wireless card, GPS..
So living without an iPhone would mean living without those items, or going back to them individually. Biggest is internet. My work is web related, so that is a must.
So living without an iPhone would mean living without those items, or going back to them individually. Biggest is internet. My work is web related, so that is a must.
I think the fact that the iPhone has everything packed in there makes it more exciting than the iPod Touch. I remember getting the current-gen iPod Touch right when it came out and returning it a week later because I got bored of it (not only that, the lack of an IPS display was killing me). I ended up buying an iPad after that.
For me, if I'm going to get an iPod Touch, an iPhone is the way to go to have everything in there.
The whole reason I never got an iPhone is because I didn't want to pay for the high monthly price (of any smartphone), and that I wasn't a person who "upgrades" (meaning I'd be paying a monthly price for something I wouldn't upgrade - or maybe in the future, I'd have to upgrade to make the monthly price worth it [which I didn't want to do]), so I bought a consumer camera and an iPod Shuffle to supplement the lack of an iPod Touch or iPhone.
I now regret not buying an iPhone because it seems like the way to go for an all-in-one item.
Now I have an old flip phone, an iPod Shuffle, and a consumer camera to carry around when traveling, when I could get away with just an iPhone. Also, the iPhone has these advantages:
1.) It has a choose-your-song interface like other iOS devices. I currently only have that interface on the iPad, which I can't bring everywhere.
2.) The iPhone has the standard dock that most speakers and cars use. I only have an iPod Shuffle with a headphone jack for all portable music playing.
The iPad has its own niche, but I would probably sell it (and the Shuffle and camera) to get an iPhone if the family didn't use it so much!
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