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lol ____________________ Go back to bed - You have no rights - "Streetfighters ~ Mainstream motorcycling's crackwhore sister." |
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Three of my friends have recently joined the Cult of iPhone.
I feel like Donald Sutherland in Invasion Of The Body Snatchers. They say over and over, 'it's really good though' while sporting a wide-eyed brainwashed stare. I see people strolling mindlessly into traffic with the telltale white earphone wires sprouting from the sides of their head, heedlessly walking to their deaths under busses and cars.
I hear people say with a worrying fervency; 'it's Jemima, yuh, on the iPhone...' or 'Hold on Jake, I need to take this call on my iPhone...' I see posts on facebook etc made 'via facebook from my iPhone' and I see people furiously claiming theres an app for everything. Theres even an app telling iPhone users what to do when a non-iPhone user claims there isn't an app for something! (It just makes another app for that on the spot!!)
Soon, we won't need to make any decisions, the technostate (or whatever Alex ones called it) will do it for us via our iphones. On the site here there is a link out to an election picker. Who's to say what drives that, soon we'll be so used to consulting our technology for answers we'll begin not to question the advice these evil devices give or from where it comes.
Mark my words, the iphone/pad/thing is merely the subtle vanguard of the techno-onslaught. Soon you'll fall asleep at night with your iThing charging near by and it'll absorb your essence and in the morning, you'll be something other than yourself.
You'll be an iPerson!
Fucking hell, sometimes I scare myself!
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Impressive getting across his point. I'm actually one of those people who don't get why there are some who are so crazy over iPhone, or over any other Apple products as well. ____________________ KPO Services |
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Maybe I'm immune to hype, but what the fuck is an iPad? Some kind of technological sanitary towel? ____________________ China traffic/travel bike vid - When I make a sweeping statement, please add the word 'statistically' in to the sentence before you bitch...
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About 6 months ago i felt the same way about iphones, fashion accessories, marketed just for fun. I was due an upgrade 3 months ago and they offered me an iphone as upgrade, the only reason i went for it was because the sony ericson x10 wasnt ready to be released and blackberrys in general are quite poor and i know because i use a blackberry at work. Untill you have one you will not know how much easier your life will be. I used to have a nokia N96 the worst phone ever, and that was terrible, the iphone is just so user friendly and so quick aswell, i go to quite a lot of restaurants all i go is open a map and type harvester, pizza hut, and hell even Lidl and it finds it within seconds. I am not getting an ipad however im going to america tomorrow and if i get the chance i will have a play. I dont have a mac or anything and dont like the user interface. i just dont know why people really hate the iphone, its a great phone, if you want a phone for making calls and texting just buy a 10quid pay as you go phone it will do the job. i think ipad will be quite good and am pretty sure it will be a big success i wouldnt pay $499 fo it though. ____________________ And on the 7th day the lord said..lets get pissed |
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| pa_broon74 wrote: | [The iPhone does something much worse, it removes the need to make decisions, it takes away the requirement to think. It removes instinct and the spontaneity of the human condition. Want something to eat? Ok, but it'll be on some one other than your terms if you trust your iphone to tell you where to go. |
But you assume that everyone who has an iphone will follow it religiously. I have one because I was due an upgrade and it was free. Its pretty useful but I wont use it to run my whole life - im still old skool and carry a diary for that. You really do have a thing against them though!
As for an ipad.... I fail to see the point of them. It wont fit in your pocket so you need to carry it in a bag. Already got stuff in your bag (keys, wallet/purse, knuckleduster....) that could scratch the screen? You need an ipad case! ____________________ Theory test - 19/8/09, CBT - 11/10/09, MOD 1 - 16/8/10, MOD 2 - 27/10/10
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I agree with the horse!
"iCulture" I see has two main flaws in my books.
Sensible flaw A: They remove the need to think and encourage obedience to the machine. Tell me this tell me that, show me where to go etc etc. The mindless scum of the country get even more mindless as they turn to a computer for basic tasks......
Paranoid conspiracy flaw B: The way iCulture integrates and syncs as many systems it can means that very quickly a large part of your life now has an electronic footprint behind it. This footprint can be monitored and tracked and soon what pubs you hang out at, what things you buy can all be kept track of. Facebook makes me LOL as it is so obviously a goldmine to the people **insert conspiracy here** who want to know such things.
Hey why spend time money and effort to profile people when they will do that for you. Where they go, photos from multiple angles etc etc...
Facebook will even make up a handy little guide about you to give to the pigs.
Also other security breaches like having bank data on ones iPhone and such. Not to mention with everything integrated if your primary system fails you lose most/all of your capabilities. |
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Was there not a tablet PC thing which was much of muchness?
Why do Apple have to be the ones to develop these things successfully? It doesn't help that much of their customer base are insufferably smug.
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 15 years, 289 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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