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When did the iPhone lose its sense of exclusivity to you?

hkfan24 said:
It's a d@mn phone for Christ sake. If anyone bought an iPhone to feel exclusive, they need some help. Anything that is mass produced in millions and sold globally is the opposite definition of exclusive. This thread is what gives us the "Apple Fanboy" in the most negative way. No phone adds value to my life and self worth. You want exclusive? Go purchase a Lamborghini Gallardo SL and add a stage 3 package from Underground Racing. Thats a better example of exclusivity.
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Well put!
Thank you!
 
hkfan24 said:
It's a d@mn phone for Christ sake. If anyone bought an iPhone to feel exclusive, they need some help. Anything that is mass produced in millions and sold globally is the opposite definition of exclusive. This thread is what gives us the "Apple Fanboy" in the most negative way. No phone adds value to my life and self worth. You want exclusive? Go purchase a Lamborghini Gallardo SL and add a stage 3 package from Underground Racing. Thats a better example of exclusivity.
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your senseless ranting has no words to describe it. Is someone making you mad? You seem to have a lot of pent up anger. Oh shoot me for feeling that an expensive phone used to feel exclusive. No one cares what adds value to your life or your self worth.
 
tymaster50 said:
your senseless ranting has no words to describe it. Is someone making you mad? You seem to have a lot of pent up anger. Oh shoot me for feeling that an expensive phone used to feel exclusive. No one cares what adds value to your life or your self worth.
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I'm not ranting nor am I'm upset. It's reality. If you want me to add to your discussion then let me speak for some members and say that the iPhone lost it's sense of exclusivity when it no longer became an AT&T exclusive. The iPhone is expensive equipment and is a great luxury to have but its reality. The iPhone felt exclusive when it was on AT&T only.
 
tymaster50 said:
your senseless ranting has no words to describe it. Is someone making you mad? You seem to have a lot of pent up anger. Oh shoot me for feeling that an expensive phone used to feel exclusive. No one cares what adds value to your life or your self worth.
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Expensive is relative to many things.

Feeling exclusive and being exclusive are two entirely different things. Even then, exclusivity is a state of mind. For some, there is a need to feel exclusive. In the end, it does not mean a thing . . . At least, not in the real world.
 
tymaster50 said:
your senseless ranting has no words to describe it. Is someone making you mad? You seem to have a lot of pent up anger. Oh shoot me for feeling that an expensive phone used to feel exclusive. No one cares what adds value to your life or your self worth.
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I think he means people who feel smug about owning an iPhone, give iPhone owners a negative image.

The iPhone is expensive, maybe, but its not expensive enough to feel pride or exclusivity for an individual.
 
hkfan24 said:
I'm not ranting nor am I'm upset. It's reality. If you want me to add to your discussion then let me speak for some members and say that the iPhone lost it's sense of exclusivity when it no longer became an AT&T exclusive. The iPhone is expensive equipment and is a great luxury to have but its reality. The iPhone felt exclusive when it was on AT&T only.
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See that is better, I asked a harmless question and you tried to attack me over it.
 
tymaster50 said:
See that is better, I asked a harmless question and you tried to attack me over it.
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You saying stuff like "if you paid for it, you might as well flaunt it" is asking for you to get attacked but in the end I wasn't even attacking you, not one bit. You're in high school so you still have some learning experiences coming your way but viewing a phone as a sense of exclusivity is just weird.

In your case and in every senior in high school's case, getting a full paid scholarship to a college is a great example of exclusivity. I never got a scholarship but was always amazed at the people that did whether it be academic, sports, or arts. I became successful in my own right and is my own personal exclusive feeling in my own mind. A phone has never and will never make me feel exclusive no matter how big of a tech junkie I am.

Phones will never add a sense exclusivity nor should it ever. It's an essential, not a high honor.
 
hkfan24 said:
You saying stuff like "if you paid for it, you might as well flaunt it" is asking for you to get attacked but in the end I wasn't even attacking you, not one bit. You're in high school so you still have some learning experiences coming your way but viewing a phone as a sense of exclusivity is just weird.

In your case and in every senior in high school's case, getting a full paid scholarship to a college is a great example of exclusivity. I never got a scholarship but was always amazed at the people that did whether it be academic, sports, or arts. I became successful in my own right and is my own personal exclusive feeling in my own mind. A phone has never and will never make me feel exclusive no matter how big of a tech junkie I am.

Phones will never add a sense exclusivity nor should it ever. It's an essential, not a high honor.
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So even if you joined this club that only a few people could qualify for and a phone was proof of that it wouldn't be exclusive?
 
hkfan24 said:
It's a d@mn phone for Christ sake. If anyone bought an iPhone to feel exclusive, they need some help. Anything that is mass produced in millions and sold globally is the opposite definition of exclusive. This thread is what gives us the "Apple Fanboy" label in the most negative way. No phone adds value to my life and self worth.

You want exclusive? Go purchase a Lamborghini Gallardo SL and add a stage 3 package from Underground Racing, a 70 inch Sharp Elite, or even a decked out built to order Mac Pro. These are a few better examples of exclusivity.

A phone doesn't propel you up the status totem pole.
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I prefer an AEV Jeep over Italian sports crap myself. www.aev-conversions.com
 
IMO it did so right after the original iPhone and that one was only exclusive because I had it in Germany before it was even launched here, which happened about 6 months later if I remember correctly.. My dad brought me one from the US.
 
hkfan24 said:
It's a d@mn phone for Christ sake. If anyone bought an iPhone to feel exclusive, they need some help. Anything that is mass produced in millions and sold globally is the opposite definition of exclusive. This thread is what gives us the "Apple Fanboy" label in the most negative way. No phone adds value to my life and self worth.

You want exclusive? Go purchase a Lamborghini Gallardo SL and add a stage 3 package from Underground Racing, a 70 inch Sharp Elite, or even a decked out built to order Mac Pro. These are a few better examples of exclusivity.

A phone doesn't propel you up the status totem pole.
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I'm sorry...Underground Racing? Try Covert Tuning. :p
 
tymaster50 said:
So even if you joined this club that only a few people could qualify for and a phone was proof of that it wouldn't be exclusive?
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Your view of the iPhone being exclusive is the same way I see memberships to Costco or Sams Club and how I see the PS3, Wii, and Xbox 360..........It's easily accessible. Here's the difference between my view and yours. Mine is reality. The iPhone has never been released or qualified to only a select "few." It's qualified and sold to more than a "few million."

A better argument is when did owning a thin LED TV lose its sense exclisivity? When those came out, they were priced out of reach for many people. everyone wanted the "thin" tv look. Today these TVs are more affordable but the higher priced local dimming LED TVs still remain exclusive to most. Exclusivity is something that most people can't obtain or a club they can't get in to, or an honor they can't achieve.

I don't need to flaunt anything to feel exclusive.

Here a link to a really exclusive phone.

http://www.vertu.com/
 
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Do people really sit around and think of dumb questions like these?

I mean, the question and any potential answer(s) serves no purpose in society.

Think tank FAIL
 
hkfan24 said:
It's a d@mn phone for Christ sake. If anyone bought an iPhone to feel exclusive, they need some help. Anything that is mass produced in millions and sold globally is the opposite definition of exclusive. This thread is what gives us the "Apple Fanboy" label in the most negative way. No phone adds value to my life and self worth.

You want exclusive? Go purchase a Lamborghini Gallardo SL and add a stage 3 package from Underground Racing, a 70 inch Sharp Elite, or even a decked out built to order Mac Pro. These are a few better examples of exclusivity.

A phone doesn't propel you up the status totem pole.
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This!
 
kappaknight said:
Do people really sit around and think of dumb questions like these?

I mean, the question and any potential answer(s) serves no purpose in society.

Think tank FAIL
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Obviously like me you have nothing better to do. Am I supposed to post a topic about how my phone has a scratch and if Apple would take it back? Or if I can shake my phone to hear my camera rattle?
 
I do think its a dumb question, but to answer. Never.

One, I never thought it was exclusive.

Two, as big as iPhone is now its still in versions. Many still have 4 or 4S now that I have 5. When I had 4S the 4 or 3GS was big. Etc..

End of the day the more iPhone is used I'm more happy. Facetime, iMessage and such.
 
By the time I bought my first iPhone a few years ago, there was nothing exclusive about it. But then again, that's not the reason I bought it.
 
As soon as the first iphone came out and everyone was desperate to get one, it was exclusive then but after the 3g came out it was the phone everyone was using, looking around in a departure lounge and 60% of the people are using them, today its about 80% or more.
 
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