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iPhone for Professionals / iPhone for kids

macingman said:
Why are these kids undeserving? Many kids I know have saved up for their iPhone and have needed to work for days to do so.

Just because your president, a doctor, a prefesser doesn't make you more entitled to a smartphone then a teenager which has had to work much harder then you to earn it.
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Sorry... the sarcasm didn't play out well in that quote. I was just being pretentious like the OP.

I should have said "undeserving" .. I think technology is for everybody. Kids these days have a great chance to be innovative because they are exposed to technology so early. I wish Apple would drop their phone prices and US phone companies would drop their phone/data rates so that more people could afford this technology.
 
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BlindMellon said:
I sit in a weekly manager's meeting with everyone else on the Droid Pro and still feel pretty good about my sweet 3gs.
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Yea, my 3GS was great. I just had a lot of dropped calls with Tmobile and was getting tired of Edge. I wanted to try out the 3G experience and now I can't go back to Edge.
 
D4F said:
Spelt (Triticum spelta) is a hexaploid species of wheat...

I'm no grammar Nazi especially that En ain't my native language but this one is just cool :)
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There's more then one definition to spelt here's the one I wrote in my last post: spelt*2 *(splt)
v.
A past tense and a past participle of spell1.

You fail please stop spreading misinformation. Since you don't speak English natively your really in no position to be correcting me anyway.
 
Alaerian said:
Oh Jesus. Come on. :rolleyes:

Heaven flippin' forbid you don't feel elitist. Stop worry about what everyone else has and use the iPhone. If it bothers you so much, then go buy something else that does make your ego larger.

In all honesty, I'd prefer you didn't use an iPhone so that the snobby stereotype you exude doesn't trickle to Apple users.
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Stop & Think,

It's Steve Jobs and Apples culture that promotes this attitude.

Their current TV commercial "If you don't have an iphone" is but one of many examples.

So don't blame the person who buys into the hype.

iPad: "It's Magical & Revolutionary"

What a load of crap.
 
Not every kid has their iPhone given to them. I payed for my whole phone. It isn't easy for a 16 year old kid to save enough money for a 32 gig iPhone 4.
 
SooneratND said:
Dear OP,

I see from your signature that you are a photographer. Therefore, I must ask you to cease and desist from using the term "professional" in requesting an iPhone "Pro." Historically, professionals were limited to those with degrees in one of the three learned professions: divinity, medicine, and law.

As a professional, I feel really good about my education and know I work hard for my status, and when I see someone with comparatively little education using my title, I get "that feeling."

I'm ranting, I know, but I can't be the only one. I don't feel the "privilege" as I once did 5 years ago with a title as a professional and when no "photographers" had it. Now you go to a party and photographers have the same title you do. WTF.

Sincerely,

SooneratND, Esq.


P.S. See what I did there? Your post suffers from the same problems.
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This is the best post I've read on these forums. :D
 
If there were an iPhone pro with more features, I'm betting more kids would have it anyway.
Most of the older people I see with any smartphone can't use it to its potential. Especially, as has been said, when it comes to iOS multitasking etc. That's the beauty of the iPhone, even idiots can use it well, while power users can use it exceptionally or jailbreak it and be awesome.
 
Weiser878 said:
If there were an iPhone pro with more features, I'm betting more kids would have it anyway.
Most of the older people I see with any smartphone can't use it to its potential. Especially, as has been said, when it comes to iOS multitasking etc. That's the beauty of the iPhone, even idiots can use it well, while power users can use it exceptionally or jailbreak it and be awesome.
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So true. My grandmother could use my iPhone. (And she has occasionally) It's simple to use, and there isn't much confusion on what to do. Couldn't say the same when I had my android device.
 
Hankcah said:
Does anybody else feel really good about their iPhone and know they work hard for their toys and then see a little 15-8 year old with the same phone, and get that feeling...

Im ranting I know, but I can't be the only one. I don't feel the "privilege" as I once did 5 years ago with a Palm Pre and when no "kids" had it. Now you go to a party and their kids have the same phone you do. WTF. YES mommy and daddy pay for it, but it shouldn't be, I feel. Why not make the iPhone $1k and have it be more expensive so little teenie-boppers won't have it.

IMO Apple should've release an iPhone Pro edition, and an iPhone Basic. Pro would have more GB, better resolution, the dual cameras, custom carrier pricing etc whatever.

And the iPhone Pro would have a more practical contract via the carrier and you had to have job in order to use it....
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So what about top graduates? I'm about to graduate from one of the worlds leading universities, and I don't want to have 'that feeling' when I see common photographers in a party. There would have to be a third line, I recommend we call it iPhone Egregie, and make you sit a 6 hour economics test before you buy it. By the way OP - your post suggests you shouldn't even try as the economics in your post is frankly moronic - much like everything else in it.
 
Respectfully, I'll use the word kids to refer to young people 19 and under.

If not for the kids and women, Apples iPhone sales would not be as great as they are. They've put Apple on the map.

The kids are the ones that made the iPod super successful, and in turn the earliest adopters of the iPhone.

Those of us adults that are tech enthusiasts like them because we like Apple. Beyond that they are technically boring.

The engineers and other tech enthusiasts amongst us find Android far more interesting and technically diverse.
 
maclaptop said:
Respectfully, I'll use the word kids to refer to young people 19 and under.

If not for the kids and women, Apples iPhone sales would not be as great as they are. They've put Apple on the map.

The kids are the ones that made the iPod super successful, and in turn the earliest adopters of the iPhone.

Those of us adults that are tech enthusiasts like them because we like Apple. Beyond that they are technically boring.

The engineers and other tech enthusiasts amongst us find Android far more interesting and technically diverse.
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Glad to be a kid.
Just remember there would be no Android phones, like they are today, if there were no iPhone released in 2007.
Even :apple: came late to the game, they did change the whole game.
http://www.androidtapp.com/lmao-how-android-iphone-and-blackberry-users-see-themselves-funny-comics/
What kind of pizza do you deliver?
 
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