Here I am with my new iPhone...
I dropped it
So this abnormal "love affair" with an inanimate object was over because you dropped it and now don't want to face the consequences of damaging something you had control of...?
Here I am with my new iPhone...
I dropped it
Many of you accuse me of moaning, whining etc, whatever, I don't get it.
My plain and simple gripe with apple is their failure to address a well known design flaw in the rebranded iPhone 4
Wake up people, it's clever marketing. They rebranded an existing product and resold it again. Basic business model if your brand can get away with it and clearly they have twice. 3G: 3GS , 4g : 4gs
Apple design a great looking phone with a clear technological leap and advantage over their competition.
So the world goes mad for it
Brilliant, genius.
But wait oh you have to buy a case for it.
You don't buy a Ferrari and put it in a case.
Some of you mention the fashion of going naked as its some kind of trend. What's that about. You actually defending apple for a design flaw.
I put it to you that 90 percent of you are brain washed with hype which it clearly is.
Yep I still went out and bought it. Clearly my mistake. What an idiot. This was my first ever iPhone and I'm appalled by a product that can not survive a 2 1/2 ft fall.
I put it to you if you spent your energy addressing apple with what is clearly a DURABILITY issue, then we may be in a better position to get a new phone that addresses these issues.
Woah, woah, woah. Oh, did I say woah yet? Well, woah. Hold on there, good sir.
At what point in time has dropping items that you might carry with you on a daily or semi-daily basis become an absolute and unavoidable law of the universe?
There's a chance that it will happen but in no way, shape, or form is it somehow absolutely inevitable that you'll drop any of the items you listed.
Woah, woah, woah. Oh, did I say woah yet? Well, woah. Hold on there, good sir.
At what point in time has dropping items that you might carry with you on a daily or semi-daily basis become an absolute and unavoidable law of the universe?
There's a chance that it will happen but in no way, shape, or form is it somehow absolutely inevitable that you'll drop any of the items you listed.
Are you suggesting I only walk on grass and carpeted areas because I own an iPhone!a phone is made to send texts and call not to let it drop into the concrete
Pink∆Floyd;13930337 said:So this abnormal "love affair" with an inanimate object was over because you dropped it and now don't want to face the consequences of damaging something you had control of...?
I dropped my phone (new 4S) down the stairs yesterday and thought of/remembered this thread....
It kinda more like 'flew' over several stairs, then hit a few, bounced and stopped at the floor at the bottom.
I did the same thing with my 3GS the first day I had it while at the exact same spot.
I don't deserve to own expensive things.
This time I was putting on a sweater and had the phone in my hand as I put it through the sleeve, and it got stuck, but then suddenly flew out lol
I had that horrible feeling of dying a little inside, and couldn't wait to rip the case off to check and make sure it hadn't broke....since I'd heard the 4's, and 4S's glass breaks much easier than the 3GS's..
It survived and I just had a cheap pretty plastic snap on case on it. Not a scratch....I think I believe in God....
Except if there is one, he should probably confiscate my technology and give it to someone who deserves it.
Really tho, I have to wonder. I hear all the time that these phones break so incredibly easily, and I've done terribly things to mine and they are fine....could it be that different manufacturers of the glass panels alter your chances, or perhaps if some glass panels are fastened in there a bit 'tighter' (less give, more tension, less shock absorption or something...) they break easier? Seems like some people can look at their phone the wrong way and it shatters.
Anyway, I need to stop having my phone in hand while i use stairs. It's plain idiotic that I would let this happen a 2nd time.