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"I Sold My iPhone"

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sheeko

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I sold my iPhone today. Wasn't all that sad, just disappointed.

There was so much hope in my hands when I held it. But now I'm just disappointed.

It was Unix in a cool sleek package. As if I'd donned a sleek pair of new sun glasses. This is what geeks like me dream of. Now I'm simply disappointed.

I have fond memories of the first time I jailbroke it. Installed NMap, SSH and Metasploit. Shelling into its green screen goodness was oh so comforting. Its use of apt-get never ceasing to amaze. But now I'm utterly disappointed.

At first, every time I saw another iPhone user, I felt a kinship to him or her. Until I saw the Yo-Yo punk with the iPhone who berated his girlfriend on the subway. The stout, past middle-aged businessman trying to hang on to his youth. The teeny bopper whose every word smacked of bubble gum twang. I no longer felt a kinship and now I'm both indifferent and disappointed.

I really tried to love it -- and I came real close, but I had to let go. You see, something came in between me and my iPhone's budding romance. The evil big brother. Now I'm angry and disappointed.

Big Brother tore us apart. For all the goodness the iPhone represented, big brother countered with its advertising lies. Its poor, unreliable and sometimes non-existent service and its inept customer reps. I felt imprisoned not empowered by big brother's more bars in more places, always mindful of their unconstitutional and devilish pact with the NSA. Now I'm paranoid and disappointed.

Yesterday I canceled my service after 30 dropped calls in one day. My iPhone is really an ipod that only occasionally works as a phone. Never failing to fail me when I need it most. Now I'm frustrated and disappointed.

I'm happy to be rid of the cancer. Tomorrow, I'll be happily disappointed with Verizon.
 
Wow that was cool.

Wow that was really good, I can't be sure what big brother is, AT&T? If so, why not keep it and switch to T-Mobile or some other service provider?

Nicely Said
 
Yeah how much you get for it? Mine is on eBay right now with a current bid of $365 and 1 day left. Problem is...I keep getting out of country bidders. Its a pain, nobody reads the listing, they just bid on it. I had to write on my listing 3 times that I dont will not ship over seas.
 
sheeko said:
Never failing to fail me when I need it most. .
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Amen, my Iphone ONLY fails hard when I need it the most. However, I'm an idiot and am getting a 3GS. I just like the Ipod aspect of it too much, and the fact that I can make pretty reliable phone calls. However the GPS has left me pulling over more than a few times.
 
sheeko said:
...As if I'd donned a sleek pair of new sun glasses.

...Shelling into its green screen goodness was oh so comforting.

...Now I'm paranoid and disappointed.

...I'm happy to be rid of the cancer.
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Rarely have I read such a load of painfully gooey, overly dramatic, and totally inappropriate hyperbolic geek puffery.

Cancer? Seriously?
 
sheeko said:
I sold my iPhone today. Wasn't all that sad, just disappointed.

There was so much hope in my hands when I held it. But now I'm just disappointed.

It was Unix in a cool sleek package. As if I'd donned a sleek pair of new sun glasses. This is what geeks like me dream of. Now I'm simply disappointed.

I have fond memories of the first time I jailbroke it. Installed NMap, SSH and Metasploit. Shelling into its green screen goodness was oh so comforting. Its use of apt-get never ceasing to amaze. But now I'm utterly disappointed.

At first, every time I saw another iPhone user, I felt a kinship to him or her. Until I saw the Yo-Yo punk with the iPhone who berated his girlfriend on the subway. The stout, past middle-aged businessman trying to hang on to his youth. The teeny bopper whose every word smacked of bubble gum twang. I no longer felt a kinship and now I'm both indifferent and disappointed.

I really tried to love it -- and I came real close, but I had to let go. You see, something came in between me and my iPhone's budding romance. The evil big brother. Now I'm angry and disappointed.

Big Brother tore us apart. For all the goodness the iPhone represented, big brother countered with its advertising lies. Its poor, unreliable and sometimes non-existent service and its inept customer reps. I felt imprisoned not empowered by big brother's more bars in more places, always mindful of their unconstitutional and devilish pact with the NSA. Now I'm paranoid and disappointed.

Yesterday I canceled my service after 30 dropped calls in one day. My iPhone is really an ipod that only occasionally works as a phone. Never failing to fail me when I need it most. Now I'm frustrated and disappointed.

I'm happy to be rid of the cancer. Tomorrow, I'll be happily disappointed with Verizon.
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So you joined today just to print this Bull****. I don't believe a word of it.
 
bigchief said:
So you joined today just to print this Bull****. I don't believe a word of it.
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It is a poem. t is fact based and yes it is a bit dramatic. It expresses my frustration about all the dropped calls and AT&T's stupidity.

I think it is perfectly OK to be critical and I thought this was a unique waying of expressing myself.

Sorry you didn't like it.
 
AT&T's GSM-network must really suck. Dropped calls are sooo 1999, unless you're in the USA.
 
noodle654 said:
Yeah how much you get for it? Mine is on eBay right now with a current bid of $365 and 1 day left. Problem is...I keep getting out of country bidders. Its a pain, nobody reads the listing, they just bid on it. I had to write on my listing 3 times that I dont will not ship over seas.
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Yah i had to list my dads twice because of bs bids. I think in settings you can tell it to not allow out of US bidders, and also have a certain rep of 6 or more etc.. Makes it a lot less painful when someone backs out or doesnt respond who didnt read you dont want them to bid hehe.
 
sheeko said:
At first, every time I saw another iPhone user, I felt a kinship to him or her.
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Alrighty then

I got news for you, its a phone, not some fraternity or special cult. Its a phone to call people, surf the web and the play the occasional game
 
noodle654 said:
Yeah how much you get for it? Mine is on eBay right now with a current bid of $365 and 1 day left. Problem is...I keep getting out of country bidders. Its a pain, nobody reads the listing, they just bid on it. I had to write on my listing 3 times that I dont will not ship over seas.
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I sold it to a friend for a hundred bucks. I just wanted to get rid of it. I am anxious to see the Palm Pre. I am a fan of apple and I think the phone itself wasn't so bad, but my experience with AT&T was frustrating and I really rely on my phone for business.

I am hoping the Pre performs.
 
I plan to upgrade my current 3G to 3.0 on Wednesday then jailbreak it and sell it on the 19th (or that weekend) off Craigslist and use that money toward buying the full 3GS. It'll cost a little more now but I won't be locked into a contract next year if Apple goes to Verizon or a 4.0 comes out.
 
Randman said:
I plan to upgrade my current 3G to 3.0 on Wednesday then jailbreak it and sell it on the 19th (or that weekend) off Craigslist and use that money toward buying the full 3GS. It'll cost a little more now but I won't be locked into a contract next year if Apple goes to Verizon or a 4.0 comes out.
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I would be very interested in seeing the iPhone on vzw. I think they would have to create a new model for Verizon given the difference between GSM and CDMA though.

IPhone on Verizon would make things interesting.
 
sheeko said:
At first, every time I saw another iPhone user, I felt a kinship to him or her. Until I saw the Yo-Yo punk with the iPhone who berated his girlfriend on the subway. The stout, past middle-aged businessman trying to hang on to his youth. The teeny bopper whose every word smacked of bubble gum twang. I no longer felt a kinship and now I'm both indifferent and disappointed.
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Uhuh . . . I don't want to be rude but part of the reason you're disappointed in your mobile phone is because you didn't like the strangers you saw with the same phone? Does that not strike you as a little silly?

The signal thing sounds horrendous. My iPhone never drops calls so, yours could be broken or AT&T completely sucks in your area.
 
instaxgirl said:
Uhuh . . . I don't want to be rude but part of the reason you're disappointed in your mobile phone is because you didn't like the strangers you saw with the same phone? Does that not strike you as a little silly?

The signal thing sounds horrendous. My iPhone never drops calls so, yours could be broken or AT&T completely sucks in your area.
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Please appreciate that I took poetic license in some portions of the poem. I was not disappointed in the phone because of the people, but the service. I find AT&T unusable in my area. I did however use my iPhone in California and found my experience to be very different. Also, in comparison tests (such as JD Power) with regard to service, AT&T always ranks at or near the bottom.
 
Randman said:
I plan to upgrade my current 3G to 3.0 on Wednesday then jailbreak it and sell it on the 19th (or that weekend) off Craigslist and use that money toward buying the full 3GS. It'll cost a little more now but I won't be locked into a contract next year if Apple goes to Verizon or a 4.0 comes out.
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I plan on doing exactly what you're doing. Do you think upgrading to 3.0 and jailbreaking is the best way to get the most money for my 3G 16GB? Or should I just eBay it as 2.2.1?
 
Do it now.

Shaan said:
I plan on doing exactly what you're doing. Do you think upgrading to 3.0 and jailbreaking is the best way to get the most money for my 3G 16GB? Or should I just eBay it as 2.2.1?
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You may get a little more money if you sell it before the 3.0 comes out, with the 3.0. Search Engadget for something like bit torrent iPhone 3.0, and you should be able to find the 3.0 by searching the web for the discription Engadget gave you. It's a really easy and clean install, I did it, works great.

Be sure you can jailbreak it, because I did a quick search and it looks like Apple "fixed" it. At least in iTunes 8.2.

Now about the poem, I thought it was great, it was a poem, most of you apparently expected some sort of cool story. I think it was a great poem. I don't really know how to say it, but most of you do not seem to get it. Sorry.
 
sheeko said:
At first, every time I saw another iPhone user, I felt a kinship to him or her. Until I saw the Yo-Yo punk with the iPhone who berated his girlfriend on the subway. The stout, past middle-aged businessman trying to hang on to his youth. The teeny bopper whose every word smacked of bubble gum twang. I no longer felt a kinship and now I'm both indifferent and disappointed.
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This was your problem. You thought that the iPhone was going to place you in some special, exclusive club. No. It's a piece of technological hardware, made in China by underpaid workers, that a corporation sold to you solely because you had the cash. Were you one of those who were upset when it became available at WalMart? As for age, I don't really think the iPhone targets any specific age group. I've seen teenagers and grandparents with them and none of them looked out-of-place.
 
Geeze, the OP was just having a little fun with his "I got rid of my iPhone today" story. Don't know why some people are jumping on him.

If you're getting poor service with a carrier, you've got to try another.
 
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