Man, life sucks in America
Posted by TFG on July 11th, 2008
Software problems bug Apple’s launch of new iPhone
Honestly, it couldn’t happen to a better bunch of douchebags.
Local news here in Mexico Jr. on the radio had half-hourly reports of the big line of dumbasses lined up around the store at 6am to get a new phone.
July 14th, 2008 at 6:15 am
As I said on my friend Deb’s site after she blogged about phone shopping:
A cell phone is meant to make PHONE CALLS when you can’t get to a regular phone. In emergencies, I like to think. No need for anything else.
My dislike for all other cell phone functions runs deep. Last year, while at a farewell dinner for a couple of friends, one of them spent much of the dinner texting instead of talking. Pissed me the hell off. How rude to the people who actually showed up to demonstrate their affection, right? Right. And that’s what’s wrong with the world right now: everyone wants to be somewhere else doing something else with someone else and then they can’t seem to understand why their friendships don’t last all that long or seem all that deep or satisfying.
Grrr.
Huge. Pet. Peeve.
July 14th, 2008 at 8:32 am
And now, a rebuttal:
I get shit done for work. Sometimes, all I have to do to clear shit up is make a call. It would be stupid for me to go all the way into the office to make a call. That is why I have a cell phone.
Sometimes, I can get shit done with an email. It would be stupid for me to go all the way into the office to send an email when I can carry a tiny device around with me that can do it pretty much anywhere.
When I’m not getting shit done, I like to listen to music. It would be stupid for me to chain myself to a HiFi in the 21st century just to listen to music. That is why I have an iPod.
It would be incredibly stupid for me to carry around three different devices to do all three when one does all three damned well. That is why I have an iPhone. I don’t spend all day on any part of it, and there are long periods of time where I don’t touch it. But when it is useful, it is vital.
(p.s.: I’ve never had a problem with battery life on my iPhone, so that should give you an indication about how much time I spend using it.)