Why Did You Buy an iPhone?

[The-Real-Deal82]

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.

I can imagine the Apple R&D department are in panic mode this morning after reading your scathing synopsis.

 

[valinda]

Before the iPhone 5, all I had was flip phones. I bought it because it was a nice looking phone.
Not very techy I know.

 

[rui no onna]

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.

Hmm, I'm a relatively early adopter myself but I think 4/4S is probably number one as the first iPhone for the general populace. In SoCal, the 4/4S form factor was the first iPhone that I pretty much saw everywhere (malls, restaurants, doctor's office, etc). Prior to that, I didn't really see a lot of smartphones (both Android and iOS) in the wild.