Thread: Silly Americans

All I want in a cell phone is this: totally free from my company. This limits my choices to two, but I never pay a dime for unlimited calls or any phone accessories. I look at the iPhone and think about how many good vintage razors/pens you could get for the same money. I figure that there will be an even better gadget out within a year.


Sheesh!

Wayne

Originally Posted by bbqncigars

I look at the iPhone and think about how many good vintage razors/pens you could get for the same money.

Well, now , y'see ... THAT'S usin' yer head.

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I have absolutely no use for cell phones. To me they are really long leash that is a pain in the ass to be on (a leash that is). The quality of my life has improved 100% since ridding myself of them.

Originally Posted by bth88

The quality of my life has improved 100% since ridding myself of them.

Wow dude! Either you had a seriously sh*tty life before or your phone was causing you untold grief!





(I'm off to chuck my BlackBerry down the toilet... here's hoping I'll win the lottery tomorrow. )

That's the consumer society that the big businesses are trying to create (with a great deal of success). You buy one of those super-gadget phones and have to use the video-feed or web-browsing feature and get nailed with data fees for those numerous times when you're away from home/office/any other place where you have computer access and you'll die if you don't get on the net or watch a stupid show. Then there's equating love with gifts (just look at Xmas commercials and commercials for jewlery stores). Canada isn't much different than the US other than having more people willing to buy a used car/bike.

Originally Posted by mhailey

this was exactly my point in a conversation earlier with a co-worker. Everyone in America thinks that it takes two incomes to "survive" these days. BULLSHI !!! It takes two incomes to buy all the crap that people think they need to keep up with the Joneses. Do you need a three car garage, master suite, full finished basement, two huge SUV's, and the 136 inch plasma high definition TV with the complete cable packet, high spped internet, satilite radio, GPS enabled golf cart, ......................... . If people would just turn off the TV and quit looking at what the world (i.e. marketers) tell you that you need, and focus on the basics, the world would be a much better place.

in the 1940's the aveage house size was 1100 square feet, and the average family had more children. Now we have an average house size of just about 2500 square feet, with less children. (something is screwed up in this picture).

Okay, this is me getting off the soap box now.

True story, pretty much calls it.

Ok, call me a sucker, geek, whatever, but I got an iPhone on Friday...but I agree that it wasn't worth waiting outside for a week (did anyone notice the guy in NYC at the front of the line was convieniently wearing a t-shirt advertising some website? genius, as that company probably paid him enough to make it worth while). In fact, in relatively small Des Moines, I walked past 300 people waiting outside an Apple Store, walked upstairs to a AT&T, stood for 15 min. and walked out with my phone. Simple...but expensive.

Now, AT&T jerked me around for 3 days to get it activated (do-it-yourself-activation...costing $40 and a huge freakin headache) but now that I did, it's worth it. I had a Treo, and a Nokia 9500 (yes, I'm a gadget geek) but my main reason for the iPhone upgrade was very simple...I'm a mac user, and trying to get a smartphone running windows mobile to work with a mac is damn near impossible. I use my cell phone for everything...always have. So something with this amount of storage space, the ability to access and send huge files as needed per clients wishes, and knowing that when I plug it into my machine, everything will sync the way it should...makes it worth it. I'll be able to get a lot more done on the run, which makes everyone I deal with happy...***** for the product * for the service.

Ok, let me just get this out of the way - if I would've had the cash, I TOTALLY would've bought an iPhone.... then hawked it on eBay for WAY more than I paid for it. Honestly, the only reason I'd want one is for the larger, clearer screen, which I imagine will scratch quite easily (thus leading to the purchase of yet another accessory to protect said screen).

My cell phone is the only phone I have. No land line. Honestly, I'm usually not home much, so a home phone is wasted on me. That, and I rarely get calls from anyone other than my fiancee, and I'm in a fortunate situation as to actually enjoy talking to my future wife!

One other thing that I cut out is cable - I don't watch TV, and quite frankly, I don't find myself giving a rat's ass if I fit in with what society deems as the "proper" image. Is there a connection? Probably, but I was always my own person, which is why I was never one of the cool kids in school. C'est la vie! The only TV I have any interest in watching is stuff like Animal Planet, History Channel, etc. I'm a bit of an information junkie, particularly when it comes to science and history!

I'm a little old-fashioned, which is one of the reasons, and I'm sure I'm not alone on this, I was drawn to the world of shaving with a straight - I think that for the most part, old ways were better ways. Granted, I'm still waiting for my first razor to arrive, but I've already used my brush, scuttle, and shaving cream with my soon-to-be-dust-collecting Fusion, and for the first time in I don't know how long, I was able to shave twice in one week with no razor burn or other irritations or bumps. So yeah, I'm on my way!

Originally Posted by DemonsDanceAlone

Ok, call me a sucker, geek, whatever, but I got an iPhone on Friday...

Originally Posted by DemonsDanceAlone

...I'm a mac user, and trying to get a smartphone running windows mobile to work with a mac is damn near impossible.

That hasn't been my experience at all. I use "Documents to Go" on my Treo and NeoOffice on my Mac and they sync together perfectly.

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