Things I Hate: Apple iPhone Users
I commented to a co-worker this morning that every iPhone owner is like a viral marketer on Apple’s payroll. That’s hyperbole, but I stand by it.
iPhone users are like cultists. The only difference between them and Branch Davidians or the anarchist weed farmers that pray to Glycon is that they think it’s the iPhone that can solve every one of their problems, not David Koresh or a made-up snake god.
Ask an iPhone user a question. There’s probably one or two around you at this very second. No matter what the question is, they’ll look the answer up on their iPhone and tell you while they’re doing it that the iPhone is great for looking up information on the go.
“Where should we eat tonight?” Let me check the iPhone.
“Have you seen the new Facebook layout?” Let me check the iPhone.
“How’s your cancer?” Let me check the iPhone.
“Are you being held hostage by the iPhone?” Let me check the …help me.
To be clear, it’s the cult of personality around the device that I loathe and not the functionality of it or the design of it. It’s a pretty phone and, seriously, I wouldn’t say no to one if AT&T WANTS TO GIVE ME ONE, GUYS, JUST SAYING.
But I hate these people that think their phone is the pinnacle of civilization and not just a really neat phone.
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My friend (who is a seminarian in his second year) commented when he first got his iPhone some years ago that the iPhone is not the phone that Jesus would use if he did use a phone, but nothing less than the phone that Jesus would BE if he was a phone.
But the iPhone really is awesome.
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