I'm sure most can admit that there has always been a certain amount of hype surrounding the iphone with multiple millions having one just to be able to say they have an iphone.
The iphone is OK. It does what a modern smarthphone is supposed to do. My girlfriend has one and I have no problems giving it back to her, dont have to pry it out of my hands or anything like that. But for the things I do the most my pre2 does it better
Hype can just as easily be described as excitement. Customers feel excited which causes the media to react which causes more excitement. In comes Apple's marketing which is excellent as promoting its products as any company WANTING to sell its products should be, and very unlike the other company at the heart of this thread, which can't find its marketing department or its message as to who its customers are. So hype? Could just as easily call it excitement as a reflection of its customer base.
Now, as to your statement regarding the multiple millions who presumably buy iPhones just to be able to say they've got an iPhone......I left high school over a quarter of a century ago. I buy what I want, wear the clothes I want, cut my hair super short because it freed me, don't accept anyone telling me what to do, and generally give as good as I get. I get iPhones because they do what I want them to do FOR ME. I don't care one flying fig what anyone thinks of what I've got, what I use, what I buy, what I wear. So no.....I don't buy iPhones because millions do. And I am completely certain that I am not unique.
So there goes that theory as to iPhone's popularity.
Now....why do you feel the need to offer up an opinion as to your girlfriend's iPhone? You don't like it.....fine. Who cares? I don't like the little Motorola phones. Who cares? My significant other won't be caught dead with anything other than a Blackberry. Who cares? Each person is different. Each should use what they like without the judgement, posturing, trolling, insults.
There is so much going wrong in the world. Do we really need to antagonise and provoke and insult and attack each other over PHONES?!???
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