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What convinced you to buy an iPhone?

I bought the first iPhone on release day, because I wanted a phone with an excellent web browser and it was best in class at the time.

But the only reason I'm still on the platform is because nobody else makes a high end Android handset that is small enough to use. Sadly it seems Apple is also abandoning my market.
 
few years back i had the chance to used a MAC for about couple of years, and loved every minute i had with the MAC. it's so user friendly. then our company switched to microsoft and had it for about 10 years. the worst 10 years of my computer usage. in between that time i used Motorola Q, Treo, Samsung Blackjack I and II, Blackberry, and all possible smartphone and hated them all. i went and buy an apple 3G and never look back. had 3S, 4, 4S, 5 and now 5S.
 
All I ever originally wanted from a smartphone was easy and reliable syncing of contacts and calender. Before the iPhone came out I was trying various Windows mobile and Nokia symbian smartphones to try to achieve this, but I was never happy with the sync reliability between my computer and phone. My first modern smartphone was a HTC Hero in 2009 (iPhone was too expensive for me at the time), and it absolutely solved the contacts and calender syncing problems I was having.

But then I started using my smartphone for more things (apps, photography etc) and realised that the iPhone was better for this other stuff & iOS was just a better OS. So after about a year with the HTC Hero I decided to switch to iPhone.

Kept using iPhones until late 2013, but now back on Android since it's now also become a very good OS with a great app store, and provides larger screen options than iPhone.
 
The iPod convinced me to get a MacBook. Well my older brother telling me he was buying me a MacBook for college and letting me keep the free iPod :)

These products always worked great and I needed a smart phone for work so I got the iPhone. I have been happy with all of them but since the 3GS I have been using a case as I dropped it 2 weeks before I was suppose to upgrade.
 
My employer gave me my iPhone. Now that I've used one for so long if there was a day they didn't supply me with one I'd buy my own.
 
I've always been into science fiction, and I dreamt of a pocket computer before they were called PDAs, which dates me I suppose! I had a Psion series 3 when I was at school, which at the time was amazing, but limited. Then I got a Palm PDA, which was amazing, but limited. When the iPhone first came out, with the big fuss that had everybody talking about it, I ignored it. I was one of those who hated Apple, or more to the point hated the way people evangelised it.

It did get me thinking that maybe a smart phone was the correct way to do a PDA - I read a science fiction book written in 1995, in which everybody had a PDA, but had to plug it into a phone booth to sync. That didn't seem odd at the time!

But I couldn't get over the price. My work offered me a staff discount on a smart phone we were selling, which was cheap even without the discount. I paid £5 a month for 18 months, and a got a free Blackberry-styled HTC s620, running Windows Mobile. The browser was unusable, but it was good for email, I really liked the way my contacts synced with Outlook, and I read whole books in Word Mobile. It was a gateway device, and a year later I was ready to pay real money for a decent phone. Not an iPhone though.

I bought a Vodafone 360 H1, which was better than an iPhone 3G. It had a sharper screen, haptic feedback, and free satnav. That was the phone that made me buy an iPhone, because pretty much nothing worked! After the satnav failed, and the web browser failed to load google maps, I had to ask a passer by for directions. Recounting this humiliating tail of woe to a friend who'd just bought a 3GS, and him being all smug and superior about it, the way Apple folks do, I grabbed it and said "well let's see it try this then!"

Needless to say it performed every task effortlessly, and just worked. I had to buy my own.

It was still very expensive, so when I saw a great deal on the first 7" Samsung galaxy tab, for £159 with £100 of entertainment included, I decided to see if I'd made a mistake. I hadn't. It couldn't play half the movies, the music was so DRMd that it was virtually unusable, the web browser was poor, and the OS itself was lacking in polish - it kept referring to itself as a phone, when it was obviously a tablet, and nothing properly fitted the screen. Not long after, I bought my first iPad.

After yet another frustrating episode with Windows Vista, and a less than impressive exploration of Linux, I decided to see if Apple's computers just worked too.

Now, I have become the thing I hate.
 
In my case.....

I just take an opportunity when an acquaintance of me grew very angry with her carrier and got convinced she must go out from a bad postpaid plan. Luckily enough, the iPhone was an unlocked one. And she sold it on a very nice price....:D....Too nice to tempt me, no a fan of iDevices.....:eek:


:):apple:
 
What convinced you to buy an iPhone?

I bought an iPhone 3GS back in 2009-10. I needed a replacement for my Palm Treo 700P and nothing else on Verizon had any appeal. I was hesitant on getting an iPhone. I really didn't want to go that route and appreciated the open freedom of the Palm Treo.

Getting an iPhone also meant switching from Verizon, which in my region had pretty good signal, though the local box readers at the corporate stores were a painful experience. I didn't always have that experience. I had a few co-workers on AT&T who convinced me AT&T wasn't the nightmare I read about in the tech forums and one had an iPhone 3G. I played with it a bit and was still hesitant.

While I loved the Palm Treo in many ways, I hated the constant, spontaneous rebooting and crashes. I hated all the software conflicts and that my Palm Treo didn't play nice with my address book or my older Handspring Vizor Prism or Windows Pocket PC. I was hoping for a Linux based phone, Wind Linux, Palm OS 2.0, etc. I even was a strong cheerleader for Android OS in the early days.

I decided to try out the iPhone. I never looked back. Best experience ever and iOS works nicely with my professional line of work as a music composer and multimedia producer. iOS plays nice with my studio apps, iOS even has JACK audio, a Linux standard.

These days, I get to play with Android OS devices for professional reasons. While Android OS has come a long way, I have no regrets. iOS is rock solid for me, whatever I seem to throw at it.
 
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My AT&T BlackBerry 8800 bricked itself in January 2009, and I was going to get the BlackBerry Bold, but it was the same price as the iPhone 3G after a mail-in rebate, and since I'm still waiting to this day for my rebate on my BlackBerry 8700c, I decided that I should get the iPhone instead. I've been using an iPhone ever since.
 
I didn't want an iPhone. I didn't like the look and when I'd have a faf with it in shops it generally confused me.

The 3Gs had just been released. The network I was on the (O2-UK) had exclusivity for the iPhone. It was upgrade time and I wanted a Sony phone. Called, the wouldn't budge but offered me a refurbished 3Gs free on a 12 month contract for £20 a month. So I took it with the intention of selling the iPhone and buying the phone I actually wanted.

iPhone arrived. I had a play, didn't think much of it. Put it back in its box. Next day I had another look and quite liked some of the features. I did that every day for a week. By the next week I really liked it it, but still had a few niggles, then I discovered jail breaking, after I jailbroke and realised just how much they could do I was sold. I Literally thought it was the most amazing phone I'd ever had. A few months later the iPhone 4 was released. I sold the 3Gs and bought the four. Loved everything about it. The looks, the way it worked. Everything.

And I've been thoroughly underwhelmed by every release since. I was really excited for the 4s release, being fairly new to apple and seeing the difference between the 3 and 4 I thought I was in for another amazing reinvention. I was sorely disappointed. I now have a 5 and honesty feel like I've not changed phones since I got the first 3GS. Despite having the 4, 4s and then the 5. Obviously now being more familiar with apple I realise all releases are just minor upgrades to previous ones.

That said, I've still never found a phone that could tempt me away from my iPhone. They all just seem more fiddly or too big or something else I don't like.

This year however the 6 should be, if rumours are to be believed, completely different. With a large screen. So I fear this is the year I leave apple since I don't like giant phones. Refuse to pay out £400 for a 5s as it's just not worth the upgrade from the 5. And since I've had the 5 close to two years now I want a new phone.

So unless apple release a phone with a sub 4'5" screen I'm off to android I think. And I don't see them doing that since logic and the market say more consumers want larger screens. Either way, my iPhones have served me perfectly and I have to say besides a few minor annoyances (usually when I'm having to restore and re-jailbreak) I've enjoyed every minute of owning them.
 
Mr. Jobs convinced me with the letters "3G" in 2008. Changed my world.
 
What convinced me to buy my first iPhone

In 2008 or 2009, I was 14 or 15. I started seeing people with the first generation ipod touch at school, everybody was impressed as it was the best thing in the world at that time.

I had only owned one apple product, the first generation ipod nano. I wasn't following the tech news so I didn't really know about the ipod touch but it didn't take long for me to get one, I got the second generation iPod Touch probably some months after it was released. Everybody started carrying one at school haha it was crazy. It made me very interested in Apple products, I just loved it, I loved my first ipod nano but now this was so different, you could do anything with it, so many apps and stuff. The OS was so good looking and the ipod itself was so classy.

The next level was of course the iPhone. Now, why would somebody get a cheap cellphone when you could get an iphone that's an amazing ipod touch but with phone features? At the time, it was really pricy here in Canada and it was restricted to Rogers so they had tremendous prices. I couldn't afford paying 100 bucks every month so I started looking for a used iPhone 3g. Found one on ebay, for about $400, it was locked to AT&T so I had to jailbreak it then unlock it, it was scratched a bit but it worked and it was great, i could pay as I went to use the phone features so it was really the best thing for a teenager.

Then some months later my girlfriend got a 3GS with Bell, gosh, it was so fast compared to my 3G, plus she didn't have to jailbreak it (never liked jailbreaking)

I had to get one but I still couldn't afford to pay a high fee every month (lucky girl, her parents didn't mind) so i saved money and waited.

THEN the nicest iphone to date was announced, the iPhone 4!!! Now the prices had gone lower, it was 60 bucks a month and $200 to get it with a 3-year contract, I went and bought it with my dad, i knew i had to get a job so i could pay the 60 bucks every month, told some of my friends who were working at a restaurant and i got my first job as a dish washer. Now I had money!

Then I got the 4S on release day

Then I got the 5 on release day

Then I got the 5c, it was 2 months ago. Found an offer on ebay, I sold my 5 and bought the 5c, didn't lose money. It feels so much better in hands :p

That's my story!

Thanks for reading me :apple:
 
Smooth scrolling and responsive screen blew my mind.

My first iPhone was the 4. Prior to that I had an HTC Touch Diamond and HTC EVO 4G. I was a huge HTC fan and loved tinkering with my WinMo/Android phone. I was also a spec snob, wanting everything on the check list.

It's funny, because now I'm the complete opposite of that. I learned that even though I could customize WinMo to my hearts content or have the highest specced phone (HTC EVO at the time), the experience was still crap.

Once I used an iPhone 4, I finally understood what makes a great user experience.
 
The attractive design and easy functionality of an iPhone is really played a main roll to convince me to go with an iPhone.
 
I have never had my own phone until I was well into adulthood. (Don't ask! Trust me. :roll eyes:) I've seen what life was like for five other people who lived with me (at the time). So when the 5c came out, I jumped. :D That is life before their iPhones. :D
 
Since I have an iMac at home and already have three other iOS devices in the family, going over to an iPhone was a no-brainer. Having already purchased numerous apps and having seen how easy it was to migrate all your data, apps, and media from one device to another, I didn't feel any need to go over to Android. Especially, since every Android device I've ever used has felt awkward and clumsy by comparison.

I already knew Apple and iOS, and was happy with both, so the decision to go to an iPhone was easy. Deciding when to go over to a smartphone was not.

For years, it was the carrier contracts, vendor locked devices, and ripoff data plan pricing that kept me from buying a smartphone. I found the whole carrier setup intentionally opaque and anti-consumer, and wanted no part of it, no matter how useful a smartphone would be. Because I only used prepaid cell phones, I knew I didn't want a contract and wanted an unlocked phone that I could use on multiple carriers.

It wasn't until Apple started selling factory unlocked phones, and T-Mobile did away with contracts and offered more attractive prepaid options, that I finally decided to pull the trigger last May.

At that point, the decision came down to buying an iPhone 5 or waiting for the rumored 5c/5s. In the end, I decided that if I was going to fork over full price for an unlocked contract-free phone, I might as well buy something that will last me a while. So, I waited four months for the iPhone 5c/5s announcement.

For what I was looking for, the 5s did not disappoint. The early benchmark tests showed the 5s blowing away the field, and with the move to 64-bit and Touch ID, this all presumably gave the 5s a decent degree of futureproofing. That made the final decision to go with the 5s over the 5c. Rumors were flying that the 5s would be in extremely short supply. Since I wanted to have the phone with me for a trip in early-October, I knew I'd have to buy on the release date.

On the release date, I opted to purchase through Apple's website at midnight rather than line up in the morning. Right when the Apple Store website went live, I made the purchase and checked out by 12:10am. I saw that within the hour, the shipping dates for the unlocked phones had gone from 2-4 days to "October," but other carrier configurations were still available to ship within 10 days.

A few days later I had the phone, activated the T-Mobile $30 100 min/5 GB prepaid plan, and it's been great. Not interested in buying the iPhone 6. Won't even think about upgrading until the 6s, if that.
 
In my opinion it is hands down the best phone and platform out there, especially the App Store. I've tried Android several times and I always compare it to an iPhone and end up coming back within a month. :cool::apple:
 
In 2009 I got my first iPhone, the 3GS.

Prior to this I had either Sony Ericsson’s or Nokia, nothing really fancy.

I’d heard about the iPhone and I thought about getting a smartphone, and was dubious about committing to a lengthy contract and a hefty upfront fee. I’d had a look at other smartphones (it was a Blackberry, can’t remember the model). I was constantly asking to sales assistant how do you do this, how do you do that with the Blackberry.

I wanted to be able to surf, email easily, so I done this on the Blackberry and the iPhone. With the iPhone, even though I had never used it previously, I was able to pick it up and know instinctivly where wifi would be located, where email was and how to use the Mail app.

I then knew that Safari was the internet browser and I was able to surf on the iPhone. The surfing experience I had on the Blackberry was awful, some sites would not load correctly, whereas on the iPhone, the same sites loaded up perfectly, the difference between it and the iPhone was like night and day. I was also blown away by the large and responsive touchscreen on the iPhone. I didn’t once need to ask the sales assistant for help. I can remember been impressed and thinking at the time that this was one well thought out and well designed product.

After playing around in the phone shop for a few times I was sold on the iPhone and it was an easy choice as to what smartphone I was going to get.

One of the other sales assistants in the shop was showing me the iPod music player app that the iPhone had. He was telling me that its essentially an iPod built into the phone. Now at the time, I had one of the iPod Classic’s. He showed me the iPod app and all the touchscreen features it had on it, cover art etc. I was blown away with it, no click wheel, just touchscreen operation. Immediately after getting my 3GS, my old iPod Classic was sold.

Since getting the 3GS in 2009, I’ve had every model since. I currently have the 5s and I’ll be getting the next gen iPhone when it comes out (unsure on if I will go with the rumoured 4.7 or 5.5 inch model). Since getting my first iPhone, my interest in Apple’s products has grown, and I now have an iPad, Apple TV, iMac. I know its not for everybody, but I really like the whole Apple eco system.
 
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