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ridiculous iPhone 4 stories
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I was on an Internet message board and then I got SO
OMG ANGRY!!1 and then I stormed into the Apple Store and got
in the face of a Genius and he offered to refund my money but I was like
THIS OMG IS MY iPHONE4!!1 and I got even more in his face and my
mom was trying to hold me back and I demanded that he fix my iPhone4
or ELSE... blah blah blah.
OMG ANGRY!!1 and then I stormed into the Apple Store and got
in the face of a Genius and he offered to refund my money but I was like
THIS OMG IS MY iPHONE4!!1 and I got even more in his face and my
mom was trying to hold me back and I demanded that he fix my iPhone4
or ELSE... blah blah blah.
I have found myself embroiled in more arguments since I picked up first my iPad on April 3, and then the iPhone 4 (5 1/2 hours in line = worth it), than I have over just about ANYTHING. I am completely perplexed over the hatred Apple products inspire in some people. I was talking on the phone outside when some goofball whips out (wait for it...) some Android Google spyware - powered device, and yells, "Android rules!" I naturally responded with a polite question about his mother.
It was bad enough with the Microsoft warriors. They've always felt the need to tell anyone within earshot why they would never buy anything from Apple. I've been (smugly, I admit) arguing with them since my first Mac, so I guess I've gotten used to them.
But now, these Android geeks are really stepping up their holy war on all things Apple, and they're ready to push the nuke button if you even mention anything they don't want to hear. The worst part is, with all the buy one, get one free deals, and a multiple of carriers, and what seems like dozens of models from different manufacturers, it's going to be more and more like fighting off the barbarian hordes, charging from every direction.
Things are coming to a head with iPhone 4. I hope Apple hurries up and rolls out this supposed software fix, taking away the prime weapon in the Android fanboy argument arsenal.
It was bad enough with the Microsoft warriors. They've always felt the need to tell anyone within earshot why they would never buy anything from Apple. I've been (smugly, I admit) arguing with them since my first Mac, so I guess I've gotten used to them.
But now, these Android geeks are really stepping up their holy war on all things Apple, and they're ready to push the nuke button if you even mention anything they don't want to hear. The worst part is, with all the buy one, get one free deals, and a multiple of carriers, and what seems like dozens of models from different manufacturers, it's going to be more and more like fighting off the barbarian hordes, charging from every direction.
Things are coming to a head with iPhone 4. I hope Apple hurries up and rolls out this supposed software fix, taking away the prime weapon in the Android fanboy argument arsenal.
Heh
As seen at the local BestBuy on release day:
Customer: do you have any iPhone4 units in stock?
Surly Salesperson: "NO." (coolly, sounding surprised and a bit abrupt).
Customer: "I take it you've answered that question more than once today?"
Surly Salesperson: "YES." (turns and walks away).
As seen at the local BestBuy on release day:
Customer: do you have any iPhone4 units in stock?
Surly Salesperson: "NO." (coolly, sounding surprised and a bit abrupt).
Customer: "I take it you've answered that question more than once today?"
Surly Salesperson: "YES." (turns and walks away).
My daughter said "You suck!" when I told her that my iPhone 4 had shipped. She has a 3G (and is lucky to have that 
). Once it arrives I'll start taking bids to see who gets my 3Gs as a hand-me-down. My daughter or my wife.
Does that count?
). Once it arrives I'll start taking bids to see who gets my 3Gs as a hand-me-down. My daughter or my wife. Does that count?
I haven't found myself in any arguments about the iPhone 4 or iPad because when someone starts to bash things i purchase i just walk away. I've got a tendency to get real pissed about people questioning my purchases.
I'm 30 years old and i work to purchase things that i want Damn what anyone else thinks and i don't justify my purchases to anyone. If they don't like it then they can go kick rocks
I'm 30 years old and i work to purchase things that i want
Damn what anyone else thinks and i don't justify my purchases to anyone. If they don't like it then they can go kick rocks
My experience has more to do with AT&T. I called a CSR to discuss the lack of upload speed. The CSR told me that the 95kbps were standard of a 3G signal. I told him I was on an HSUPA connection and got 1600kbps last week. He forwarded me a link from AT&T's website showing average speeds. 500-800kbps was what it said. I explained that to him and he proceeded to tell me that sun spots could cause the change in signal.
Damn. I didn't realize we were signing up for teams when we chose our cell phones.
Crazy.
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Kind of like having kids in China?
Wow...some people are really...wow. I'm just shocked.
Out of curiosity, how old is your daughter? (if you think i'm crazy, I'm just wondering how old kids generally are when they have iPhones. I saw like a 12 year old girl with one...and from the way she was using it, I think it was her personal phoneMy daughter said "You suck!" when I told her that my iPhone 4 had shipped. She has a 3G (and is lucky to have that
Does that count?
).
It was a great summer night! We were surrounded by friends and had drinks, ate some pizza, played some football, played some poker, messed with security, had more drinks, passed out on the sidewalk and woke up to get a phone.......Good Times!!!
People that have android phones keep asking and telling me haha does your iphone have all those problems. then i hand it to them and show its perfect. and they just envy it afterwards lol
I think people that bash Apple are just very close minded. Because i have tried every phone and can tell you pro and cons to each phone. Apple just always wins my heart
I think people that bash Apple are just very close minded. Because i have tried every phone and can tell you pro and cons to each phone. Apple just always wins my heart
My daughter said "You suck!" when I told her that my iPhone 4 had shipped. She has a 3G (and is lucky to have that
Does that count?
bidding war!The reason people have started blowing there fuses when Apple is mentioned is cause of SOME Apple fanboys....
Disclaimer: I own apple products and I really enjoy my MBP and plan on getting the iP4 when it comes out in Canada.
This guy I work with is an Apple fanboy. I was talking to him about laptops the other day. I mentioned how Windows 7 is a very good operating system and a pleasure to use. He saw this as an insult to Mac OSX.
Throughout the whole time he was arguing with me, all he kept saying, "Macs can't get viruses!" That's all his argument was. Even that's not true...Macs CAN get viruses, but there are just no viruses out there at the moment for them. He annoyed the crap out of me.
Now if I had to deal with a guy like him regularly gloating about how Apple is the perfect utopia and how Steve Jobs looks like Jesus with short hair, even I'd get annoyed with Apple!
(Thank god the dude works in another department!!)
Disclaimer: I own apple products and I really enjoy my MBP and plan on getting the iP4 when it comes out in Canada.
This guy I work with is an Apple fanboy. I was talking to him about laptops the other day. I mentioned how Windows 7 is a very good operating system and a pleasure to use. He saw this as an insult to Mac OSX.
Throughout the whole time he was arguing with me, all he kept saying, "Macs can't get viruses!" That's all his argument was. Even that's not true...Macs CAN get viruses, but there are just no viruses out there at the moment for them. He annoyed the crap out of me.
Now if I had to deal with a guy like him regularly gloating about how Apple is the perfect utopia and how Steve Jobs looks like Jesus with short hair, even I'd get annoyed with Apple!
(Thank god the dude works in another department!!)
People that have android phones keep asking and telling me haha does your iphone have all those problems. then i hand it to them and show its perfect. and they just envy it afterwards lol
I think people that bash Apple are just very close minded. Because i have tried every phone and can tell you pro and cons to each phone. Apple just always wins my heart
Most have never even experienced an Apple product, let alone the iPhone. They all go by the media. Once they hold it though, their perspective changes pretty quickly
I can do the same trick, and when I mention it on here all I get in response is "You're hallucinating! The iPhone 4 is perfect!" or "Quit whining and return it."Here's my ridiculous iPhone story...
I have an iPhone 4 and when I hold it in my left hand, it becomes a nifty brick.
Now that's ridiculous.
While waiting in line on launch day at the 3rd Street promenade in Santa Monica, my wife and I (along with many others) bought multiple cups of coffee, waters and pastries from the only Starbucks that was open around 5:30 am - the one attached to the Barnes & Noble.
When I went in there at one point, the employees seemed overwhelmed with the amount of business they had and complaining - I mean, there was literally like a thousand people lined up just outside the door that they weren't expecting, but they were doing GREAT business!
At one point, my wife went in to buy another coffee for a friend but decided to use the bathroom first- the line was long and just when she got up toward the front, the manager stood in front of the door and told them the bathroom was for customers only... immediately, everybody in line began rattling off the list of the many items they had bought there that morning - to which the manager said "you need to have a receipt (which for some reason they weren't giving to anybody that morning) or a coffee in your hand"
My wife offered to let him smell her breath and said she's going to buy another coffee AFTER using the restroom because bringing a beverage in with her is "really gross"
The manager insisted and began letting customers in the back of the line who had drinks in their hand in while turning away everyone else, then one guy walked over to the counter, bought 4 or 5 bottles of water and asked for individual reciepts, handed each person in front of him a water and a reciept and refused to take anybody's money for it... to which the manager simply muttered "thank you for complying" and walked away.
Between that and getting our iPhone 4s, it was probably the most exciting thursday morning we'd had for a long time.
When I went in there at one point, the employees seemed overwhelmed with the amount of business they had and complaining - I mean, there was literally like a thousand people lined up just outside the door that they weren't expecting, but they were doing GREAT business!
At one point, my wife went in to buy another coffee for a friend but decided to use the bathroom first- the line was long and just when she got up toward the front, the manager stood in front of the door and told them the bathroom was for customers only... immediately, everybody in line began rattling off the list of the many items they had bought there that morning - to which the manager said "you need to have a receipt (which for some reason they weren't giving to anybody that morning) or a coffee in your hand"
My wife offered to let him smell her breath and said she's going to buy another coffee AFTER using the restroom because bringing a beverage in with her is "really gross"
The manager insisted and began letting customers in the back of the line who had drinks in their hand in while turning away everyone else, then one guy walked over to the counter, bought 4 or 5 bottles of water and asked for individual reciepts, handed each person in front of him a water and a reciept and refused to take anybody's money for it... to which the manager simply muttered "thank you for complying" and walked away.
Between that and getting our iPhone 4s, it was probably the most exciting thursday morning we'd had for a long time.
