 ExitWoundPorsche Snob
join:2001-12-13
State College, PA | reply to aaronwt
Re: Lining Up?? The world is full of stupid. Expect the willfully uninformed to make willfully uninformed decisions.
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| Shills Well reports of the people in line are people who are there to benefit for themselves, so who really cares.
What people should do it really check out their plans and see if buying this device will cause them to spend hundreds of dollars per year more in fees.
I to this day cannot understand why anyone would stand in line for a mass marketed replicated millions of times in China for days. If these people are so technically adept, can't they just push the "buy now" button and have it shipped to their house.
When I was a kid, we used to camp out for concert tickets (when music was actually good), because this was before online ticketmaster or resell market. There was no efficient exchange to get the good tickets. Now, you can do it from your tablet, or if you are lucky and the scalpers haven't bought them all or your special interest who owns blocks of the good tickets, you can print it out in five minutes. If you need to "buy it now" you can go to stubhub and get bent over. I personally wait until the day and bend over the person who needs to get rid of the tickets....
Also, who wants to have the first production run of a product. You know there are going to be defects. Anybody who worked in production facilities knows how that rolls....
Again the "I need to have it now" people will be the ones living on social security "if it exists" some day.
Oh, and I will be buying a broken iphone 4 for $80, fixing the screen for $35, and activating it on straighttalk for $45 a month, NO CONTRACT. It works just fine, thanks to Apple's great software.
I have to say my nexus 7 tablet blows away my ipad. The widgets and exchange integration are awesome. The battery life it not as good as my ipad though. Interestingly enough the major killer of my idle time is Google Currents which guess what I can't remove nor do I use. The problem w/ android is support. Unless I buy a Nexus tablet, expect the software to be buggy and never updated or fixed. Say what you will about Apple, but their software is much more stable than Android--however at the lack of innovation and control. But for the masses, it works.
This new phone is right on. I mean these Android phones are monsters. I saw a Samsung SIII. The thing wouldn't fit in my pocket. It's like Androids went straight to Escalades. If I want to do serious reading, I pull out my tablet. You'd be hard pressed to find a good 4" phone in the Android space that wasn't some off-brand Chinese it'll sorta work. |
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| said by elefante72:When I was a kid, we used to camp out for concert tickets (when music was actually good), because this was before online ticketmaster or resell market.
As nice as it is to sit at home and press a "Buy me" button... it was fun waiting in lines for concert/movie tickets. Plus it was more of a social event....
Which I guess I can understand with lines for phones and such... but these days I don't get how they can do it for days... Heh.. I wish I had that much free time on my hands. |
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| I guess I'm old now  But to me when we were doing it it was for music which was artistic.
Now I know Jobs wants you to think of an iphone as a song, but it's not. It's a hunk of metal/glass w/ a screen and feeds you media. If this is what kids today aspire to, I'm worried. |
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rradina
join:2000-08-08
Chesterfield, MO | reply to elefante72
said by elefante72:...It works just fine, thanks to Apple's great software... Help me understand what you mean by this. |
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Agreed, my time is worth something and standing in line for a couple days is not worth the $1k plus of my time for anything. |
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said by elefante72:we used to camp out for concert tickets (when music was actually good)...when we were doing it it was for music which was artistic.
i was generally ok with your rant, and i know this is off topic, but i take issue with your rather significant generalization. if you think music was "better" or "more artistic" in "your day", you're wrong, or allowing nostalgia to cloud your judgement. all that's happened is you've stopped spending time looking for music you like.
try not to be an old fogey expounding platitudes along the lines of "those darn kids these days with their hippity-hop". you sound like a contemporary of Socrates. |
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ExitWoundPorsche Snob
join:2001-12-13
State College, PA | reply to elefante72
I have a Galaxy S III for my job and it fits in all my pockets. It's primarily used as an email/txt platform for the on-call nature of the business so the bigger screen is welcome. It's quick, never had a crash, and easy to use. Battery life is phenomenal on 3G AT&T (24-36 hours) (no LTE in the area).
I would not own a cell phone if I didn't have to have one for work. One year ago this month, I got the job and the phone. I went on fine without one prior ,and will go on fine without one in the future.
I don't understand the 'need' for one and as such waiting in long lines, paying out the wazoo, and being socially tied to others all the time. It's not that one needs a phone at all. It's a status symbol, much like buying a Mercedes or wearing a Livestrong bracelet. It's the 'need' to fit into a group and say "I'm one of you".
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