Very little, fortunately. The majority of apps still work, or has older versions that work. So mostly I just loose Apples own apps, which I can happily live without.
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Why Did You Buy an iPhone?
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I have a long line fetish. Doesn’t matter what it’s for. Show me a long line and I’ll go stand in it. Just so happened the iPhone was at the end of one of these long lines.
My first iPhone was the iPhone 3G because I couldn't afford one before that. It was right after I graduated high school and moved. Got a job and the iPhone 3G was my first "big" purchase.
My dad and friend had the original iPhone, and after learning about jailbreaking, theming, and emulators, I had to get an iPhone.
My dad and friend had the original iPhone, and after learning about jailbreaking, theming, and emulators, I had to get an iPhone.
I know exactly what you mean. I felt the same way when I played with the original iPhone for the first time. It's also the exact reason I bought the original iPad. I thought the iPad was stupid at first, but I played with one on launch day and couldn't leave the store without one.This may sound like marketing-blabla, but for me it was the scrolling and the "magic" of an interface, that seemed to respond perfectly to my fingerinputs. It's kinda hart to descripe, but I hope you know what I mean!
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It was the opportunity to consolidate PDA and phone in one. I might have hesitated just a bit longer if I'd known how little was actually working at the time, but it was a huge improvement over what I had been using.
The original. I got a 4GB for myself right after the price drop when they were on fire sale for $299 in September 2007, and used that phone for the next three years. I still have it, and it still looks and works great, even a decade on; I use the old fella as an iPod and for random bursts of nostalgia, as I have it downgraded back to OS 1. I kept purchasing iPhones, getting a 3GS in 2010, a 5 in 2013, and an SE this year, as Apple offers the most solid combination of ease of use, app selection, speedy devices, and longevity. My iPhones have always served me well, and continue to do so after their retirement. My original stays in my bag as an iPod, my 3GS stays in the glove box of my car as part of the entertainment system, and my 5 was recently passed on to a new owner here on macrumors.
Got an iMac in 2011, and thought that an iPhone (the 4s at the time) would work best with my Mac. From there, getting an iPad seemed like a foregone decision, followed by a MacBook Air and numerous Apple TVs.
Went on to upgrade to a 5s, followed by a 6S+. I just love how all my Apple products play nicely with one another, and can't imagine upsetting this hard-earned harmony.
Went on to upgrade to a 5s, followed by a 6S+. I just love how all my Apple products play nicely with one another, and can't imagine upsetting this hard-earned harmony.
My first long term iPhone relationship was with the iPhone 6S. I still have a Galaxy S7 and Nexus 6 but my daughter was like dad, how can I get an iPhone? So I traded my iPhone 6S for her S6 and she is happy as can be. Knowing that I can get $300 S6 trade in for a Note 7 I preordered. But I've had iPhone withdrawals the last few days and decided to jump on a iPhone SE yesterday with $400 in gift cards. After about 5 hours of use that's when I decided to cancel my Note 7 preorder.
Right now I want speed slightly over features and the iPhone SE delivers big time. And with those gift cards it just makes the deal sweeter. I still like my other phones but when it comes to portability, speed and reliability the SE is a one handed pocket warrior.
Right now I want speed slightly over features and the iPhone SE delivers big time. And with those gift cards it just makes the deal sweeter. I still like my other phones but when it comes to portability, speed and reliability the SE is a one handed pocket warrior.
When I was in college, my family was entirely Verizon. My first phone was a MotoDroid, but when the iPhone 4 became available for Verizon, I jumped ship. I go back to Android occasionally, but I always find my way back to iOS.
I have owned every iPhone (usually on launch date) give or take a couple of days.
Waited in line out in California att store June 29th 2007 (I was actually doing a travel assignment out there and based on east coast) only waited 2 hours in line and got 8gb iPhone and took red eye back to Miami for a wedding from SFO that same night. People on airplane were amused when I showed them the new iPhone. It was quit a hit with the fellow passengers.
Than again I've also owned pretty much every single android phone from the first G1 in October 2008. Just resold my galaxy s7 today.
I am just a phone junkie and was into palm, blackberry, windows mobile as well. I usually carry two phones with me from different Mobile OS as well
Waited in line out in California att store June 29th 2007 (I was actually doing a travel assignment out there and based on east coast) only waited 2 hours in line and got 8gb iPhone and took red eye back to Miami for a wedding from SFO that same night. People on airplane were amused when I showed them the new iPhone. It was quit a hit with the fellow passengers.
Than again I've also owned pretty much every single android phone from the first G1 in October 2008. Just resold my galaxy s7 today.
I am just a phone junkie and was into palm, blackberry, windows mobile as well. I usually carry two phones with me from different Mobile OS as well
I would be surprised if the iPhone 3G and iPhone 4 don't come out on top here.
The iPhone 3G because it was the first iPhone worth owning for the price, the 4 because of the added major carrier in the US market.
The iPhone 3G because it was the first iPhone worth owning for the price, the 4 because of the added major carrier in the US market.
Good guesses. The nature of MRF and nature of responders though is for early adopters (those since the original iPhone) to drop by and "brag."
For me it was mainly because it appeared that 90% of developers were creating apps for iOS. Even more so now, lots of apps and services are geared towards iOS.
I had a blackberry storm. a brick. got the 3G and every model since then. never looked back. love my 6Splus
I got the iPhone 3GS more as an experiment. I really had no heavy interest in smart phones but found it interesting, particularly the idea of apps. It was the 4 that cemented me with the iPhone in particular. At that time with the 'retina' display and the camera, I didn't feel anything android at the time was even in the same ballpark. Things looked fuzzy and oversaturated on android screens. The 4 seemed light years ahead. My, how things have changed...
Why did I buy an iPhone? I was tired of rooting my Android phones to get rid of forced adware that would be stuck downloading gigs of data on my HTC Thunderbolt (Blockbuster app stuck downloading thumbnails over and over - battery would drain in 4 hours - killing app would only start itself up again - back when LTE was unlimited). I was tired of spending hours and hours fixing what should be ... a beautiful user experience out of the box. I had always loved the design of the iPhone 3 but I was a huge Android fan so, I joined the anti-apple crowd.
Till an Apple guy joined my work. He showed me stuff he could do on his phone - how refined the apps were, how the phone's hardware was beautiful, standby battery life was amazing. So, I went with him to get an iPhone 4s (first iPhone). Best decision I ever made. I actually enjoyed surfing the internet on that phone and ... thus started my Apple conversion.
The beautiful OS, the enjoyable experience, no adware, standby battery life (would go to bed with xx% and wake up with xx%), amazing hardware, not spending hours fixing something, yeah - Apple's got a customer here for a long time.
I did go back to the Note 3 after the iPhone 5... but then went back to iPhone 6+ and now 6s+. Having tried a Nexus 6, OnePlus3, and various Samsung Tablets (Tab Pro 8.4) and my current Tab S2 8.0 (gave the wife my iPad Mini 4) --- I dabble in Android, but my main devices are Apple.
If I had to pick 2 main points? Standby battery life and no adware (I'm on Verizon).
I'm far more of a Google fan than I am an Apple fan - but for iOS vs Android... no contest, sadly.
Edit: I think the iPhone 3 is the most beautiful phone...
Till an Apple guy joined my work. He showed me stuff he could do on his phone - how refined the apps were, how the phone's hardware was beautiful, standby battery life was amazing. So, I went with him to get an iPhone 4s (first iPhone). Best decision I ever made. I actually enjoyed surfing the internet on that phone and ... thus started my Apple conversion.
The beautiful OS, the enjoyable experience, no adware, standby battery life (would go to bed with xx% and wake up with xx%), amazing hardware, not spending hours fixing something, yeah - Apple's got a customer here for a long time.
I did go back to the Note 3 after the iPhone 5... but then went back to iPhone 6+ and now 6s+. Having tried a Nexus 6, OnePlus3, and various Samsung Tablets (Tab Pro 8.4) and my current Tab S2 8.0 (gave the wife my iPad Mini 4) --- I dabble in Android, but my main devices are Apple.
If I had to pick 2 main points? Standby battery life and no adware (I'm on Verizon).
I'm far more of a Google fan than I am an Apple fan - but for iOS vs Android... no contest, sadly.
Edit: I think the iPhone 3 is the most beautiful phone...
I had the iPhone 3GS as my first iPhone, i was in college (here in the UK) at the time, i was using a very crappy LG phone at the time. For Christmas my parents brought me the iPhone 3GS, i remember being amazed by it, a very reliable phone that lasted me a few years. I didn't really know what an iPhone was at the time, i had only ever had an iPod Nano as my first Apple product. After my 3GS i went to the iPhone 4S and then i made the mistake of trying a Samsung Galaxy S4 (nightmare of a device) after which i went back to iPhone with the 5S and now i'm currently using the iPhone 6 Plus, i plan on upgrading to the iPhone 7 Plus next month, if the rumours are true about a BIG upgrade for Apple's 10 anniversary next year, i will probably upgrade to that one as well.
the iPhone's reliability, regular updates, stability and a great app store are the reasons why i wont switch to any other phone. To this day and even tho other companies have got better at making smartphones, i still think the iPhone is the best on the market.
the iPhone's reliability, regular updates, stability and a great app store are the reasons why i wont switch to any other phone. To this day and even tho other companies have got better at making smartphones, i still think the iPhone is the best on the market.
In terms of OS and reliability I still don't think Andriod is as good as Apple and the iPhone.
iPhone 5 as a Symbian OS refugee after Stephen Elop's "burning platform" speech - which destroyed what was then the world's most popular smartphone platform almost overnight. I was already a long-time Mac user, and iOS seemed like the least horrible choice at the point when I was looking for a new phone. The transition was a bit of a shock with many unexpected tradeoffs, but I got used to it.
You left out poor 3Gs out of the poll.
My first iPhone was the original.
^ Looped that repeatedly in 2007 on my Sony PSP phat. I had iPhone envy for at least a year until I bought a 1st gen iPod touch in July 2008 and then iPhone 2G by November. Bought another iPhone 2G hours before I found out Steve Jobs passed away (Oct 5, 2011). I watched that movie 50/50 which is a movie about cancer before I found out. I bought it for $90 from some kid at Craigslist from Laguna Hills (great area) and it was fairly pristine and battery life held up. Then sold it to my uncle for same price by June 2012 because the screen froze up alot if it received texts while on a call. 128mb RAM = LOL!
My last iPhone I used as a daily driver is the 4. Been on Android ever since 2011. I have fond memories of BOTH iPhones. The 2G was the real gamechanger. The only I lusted for over a year. I wished Apple brought back that design but make it bigger, thinner, and updated specs. The 4 was the last iPhone that SJ ever announced and was my favorite phone for three years (2010-2013). Longest smartphone I ever owned too. But would I ever use either of them again? Hell no. So many budget Android phones under $100 work far better than them now. Fond memories but better left in the past.
The Unending Arrogance Of The iPhone Tagline Marches Ever Onward
Yup, I bought into this tagline for the 4. Got worse and redundant ever since...
^ Pure arrogance. Something Trump would say for the rich, white Americans.
Apple claims to change EVERYTHING again and again when the only time Apple did that was when the original iPhone was released and the App Store opened in 2008. The rest after the original iPhone have been more evolutionary than revolutionary. I guess no iPhone 7 for me this year thanks to all the free stuff and Gear VR with the Note7. I want that virtual Netflix home theater experience on the go. Better luck next time, Apple. Maybe I will get interested by iPhone 9 in 2019 which will look like the 8 and 8s since Apple plans to go with three-year design cycles.
Apple needs to fall for someone to give them a wakeup call. The idiocracy with their fanbase shouldn't last forever. Stand up to Apple. Chris Rock said it best. Being funny is like being a beautiful woman. You can get away with alot of s**t. Apple has been getting away with alot on what most other companies will get blasted for. Apple needs to be grounded. Their ego is as big as Trump. Been seduced by their own success. Time to wakeup and rise to the challenge, Apple. You're being left in the dust by the competition.
My first iPhone was the original.
^ Looped that repeatedly in 2007 on my Sony PSP phat. I had iPhone envy for at least a year until I bought a 1st gen iPod touch in July 2008 and then iPhone 2G by November. Bought another iPhone 2G hours before I found out Steve Jobs passed away (Oct 5, 2011). I watched that movie 50/50 which is a movie about cancer before I found out. I bought it for $90 from some kid at Craigslist from Laguna Hills (great area) and it was fairly pristine and battery life held up. Then sold it to my uncle for same price by June 2012 because the screen froze up alot if it received texts while on a call. 128mb RAM = LOL!
My last iPhone I used as a daily driver is the 4. Been on Android ever since 2011. I have fond memories of BOTH iPhones. The 2G was the real gamechanger. The only I lusted for over a year. I wished Apple brought back that design but make it bigger, thinner, and updated specs. The 4 was the last iPhone that SJ ever announced and was my favorite phone for three years (2010-2013). Longest smartphone I ever owned too. But would I ever use either of them again? Hell no. So many budget Android phones under $100 work far better than them now. Fond memories but better left in the past.
The Unending Arrogance Of The iPhone Tagline Marches Ever Onward
Yup, I bought into this tagline for the 4. Got worse and redundant ever since...
^ Pure arrogance. Something Trump would say for the rich, white Americans.
Apple claims to change EVERYTHING again and again when the only time Apple did that was when the original iPhone was released and the App Store opened in 2008. The rest after the original iPhone have been more evolutionary than revolutionary. I guess no iPhone 7 for me this year thanks to all the free stuff and Gear VR with the Note7. I want that virtual Netflix home theater experience on the go. Better luck next time, Apple. Maybe I will get interested by iPhone 9 in 2019 which will look like the 8 and 8s since Apple plans to go with three-year design cycles.
Apple needs to fall for someone to give them a wakeup call. The idiocracy with their fanbase shouldn't last forever. Stand up to Apple. Chris Rock said it best. Being funny is like being a beautiful woman. You can get away with alot of s**t. Apple has been getting away with alot on what most other companies will get blasted for. Apple needs to be grounded. Their ego is as big as Trump. Been seduced by their own success. Time to wakeup and rise to the challenge, Apple. You're being left in the dust by the competition.
I used android phones since the launch of the t-mobile G1. I have growned accustomed to using android and using nexus devices. I purchased a galaxy nexus on Verizon and basically was the end for the platform for me. Terrible battery life , delayed updates for a nexus device and last but not least... Shoddy build from a Samsung phone. The device died onme after a mixed drink was split on it when I went out clubbing with friends. Got a free droid dna because my cousin used to work for HTC and used it till the iPhone 5s released. I never looked back and stayed on iOS since then. Going to run this phone to the ground like I have with my mid 2010 MacBook Pro. (Which I still use till this day).
In my case it was a semi-conscious purchase. My fav Motorola failed me, I hit the roof and ordered "the best smartphone on the market available". The iPhone was in my hands within two hours. I loved it. (And I still have it in its original box).