Today at my internship(!) I was shadowing a tour of preschoolers and their parents. I was amazed to see that every kid had their own sunglasses, apparently the new must-have item this summer. Also when the parents stepped up to take pictures of their kids only one of them had a actual honest to goodness camera. When I say camera, I mean a digital camera. All the other parents took pictures with their Iphones.
I am not just schpealing about this because I HATE the iPhone, and oh boy I do, but I was astounded. Maybe it was just seeing parents who had a good knowledge of technology, but I think it was more that it was the largest number of iPhones I have ever seen in one place.
Yes my parents have trouble turning on the TV (I literally got a call at school once asking how) and using a regular ipod (am i charging this right?) and recognizing cell phones (I wasn't there but apparently my mom thought her new phone was actually and attachment).
And yes, I absolutley LOATHE the iPhone, and for the record I adore all other apple products except the iPod nanos. I don't know I just don't see what the big deal is about them. I get that it is a phone, camera, iPod(mp3), gps, blackberry, handy man's helper, wilderness survival guide, hand held game, and pretty much anything else you want it to be (I wonder if there is an app for all the things that there is an app for?) but COME ON! Really? I mean I already paid like $400 for a video iPod (white, if you wanted to know) and over $1,000 for a macBook, about $30 a mo. for a cell phone, and $100 for a crappy digital camera. So why on the gods green earth would I pay for something, though amazing that it is, that I don't need? Because it's handy you say? HA! I remember before the internet was good. I remember what it is like to live without cable, I remember when cell phone were a novelty and only business people had them, I remember the palm pilot. All this makes me sound old but I barely have lived 2 decades. For godsake I remeber the old dell computers with the black screen and yellow type!!!!!
I am so living perfectly fine without one of those imbicile phones... I'll probably wish I had one once I find myself lost deep in the wilderness, after parachuting out of a crashing plane, with only granola bars and water to last a day or less and I am surrounded by bears, and no hermits in sight to kill for their food. It will be then that I will cry out for my long lost iPhone that there was no way in hell I would buy. The ironic thing is that if I did have an iPhone there with me and an app about how to survive when lost in the woods... I'll bet the reception would be non-existant.
I wonder if there is a "how to deal with withdrawl from your iPhone" app.
Peace Love Harmony
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