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iPhone threads

  • 01-10-2012 04:09PM
    #1
    mitosis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,996 ✭✭✭


    Having read the various foot-stamping threads over the past week, can someone please explain to me why they HAVE to get a new phone on the very day of its release?


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  • #2
    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,554 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    they're idiots


  • #3
    Youssef Chippo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 128 ✭✭Youssef Chippo


    To keep up with the Jones', Ireland at it's materialistic worst.


  • #4
    4zn76tysfajdxp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    mitosis wrote: »
    Having read the various foot-stamping threads over the past week, can someone please explain to me why they HAVE to get a new phone on the very day of its release?

    Because they want it. Haven't you ever wanted anything in your life?


  • #5
    ScumLord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,787 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    My phones better than your phone.


  • #6
    Feeona
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,632 ✭✭✭Feeona


    I excitedly clicked into this thread thinking Apple had finally decided to start their own clothes range based on the iPhone. FFS :mad:


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  • #7
    Standard Toaster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,291 ✭✭✭✭Standard Toaster


    Armitage shanks.


  • #8
    bop1977
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,079 ✭✭✭bop1977


    mitosis wrote: »
    Having read the various foot-stamping threads over the past week, can someone please explain to me why they HAVE to get a new phone on the very day of its release?

    Thinly veiled I can't afford an iPhone thread and am bit jealous. :D






    Only slagging. I want one as well.:(


  • #9
    aaronjumper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,128 ✭✭✭✭aaronjumper


    It's getting harder and harder to hold onto phones that have buttons.
    I have used my friends touch phones and iphones a few times.
    I don't like it, it's just not right. Technology should have buttons.
    It's part of the fun. Lamely dragging a finger across a screen.


  • #10
    Sykk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,327 ✭✭✭Sykk


    Hates iphone threads

    Creates iphone thread


  • #11
    1ZRed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,293 ✭✭✭1ZRed


    In before this becomes an android/anti-apple circle jerk and the fanboys on either side come to bitch shite about the other.


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  • #12
    marketty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,066 ✭✭✭marketty


    1ZRed wrote: »
    In before this becomes an android/anti-apple circle jerk and the fanboys on either side come to bitch shite about the other.

    No no the apple-v-android slagging threads are dead.
    It's all about the spoilt brat-v-very reasonably priced and clearly explained mobile company contract nowadays


  • #13
    ScumLord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,787 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    marketty wrote: »
    No no the apple-v-android slagging threads are dead.
    It's all about the spoilt brat-v-very reasonably priced and clearly explained mobile company contract nowadays
    My windows phone has been secretly pissing in their drinking water all along. All them Android and iPhone plebs have Leptospirosis now and they don't even know it.


  • #14
    Schism
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,919 ✭✭✭Schism


    I don't understand the huge need either.

    I've had the Galaxy S since it was the top Samsung phone. I got it because I wanted a smart phone (coming from an old Nokia) and I was switching networks. It still does everything I want it to do, even if it is getting a bit battered now so I have no desire to lay out a few hundred on a pointless upgrade. Maybe when there's an S4 there'll be some new amazing features I can't pass up on!

    My point is, I got a new shiny phone because it was a huge upgrade. I wonder how much do the people getting the new iPhone get out of it opposed to their old handset?

    That said there's nothing wrong with how each person chooses to spend their cash, as long as they're not going into the red for it! That would be silly.


  • #15
    PogMoThoin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,873 ✭✭✭✭PogMoThoin


    An Apple user posted in the Apple forum that he got an S3 and it wasn't that bad. The Apple bunch had pitchforks out, warnings, infractions, bans and thread locked in no time
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056769049


  • #16
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    PogMoThoin wrote: »
    An Apple user posted in the Apple forum that he got an S3 and it wasn't that bad. The Apple bunch had pitchforks out, warnings, infractions, bans and thread locked in no time
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056769049

    LOL

    Mad!

    Was the thread on a forum hosted in a country where the land of the free and bold and brave cherish free speech? :pac:


  • #17
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 1,452 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »
    they're idiots

    iDiots you mean.


  • #18
    Madam_X
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,327 ✭✭✭Madam_X


    Feeona wrote: »
    I excitedly clicked into this thread thinking Apple had finally decided to start their own clothes range based on the iPhone. FFS :mad:
    iPhone dress would look class IMO.


  • #19
    aaronjumper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,128 ✭✭✭✭aaronjumper


    Madam_X wrote: »
    iPhone dress would look class IMO.

    Especially with a slide to unlock function :D

    Alright I'm goin I'm goin!


  • #20
    Madam_X
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,327 ✭✭✭Madam_X


    No no stay, a very handy addition I would think! :pac:


  • #21
    mitosis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,996 ✭✭✭mitosis


    PogMoThoin wrote: »
    An Apple user posted in the Apple forum that he got an S3 and it wasn't that bad. The Apple bunch had pitchforks out, warnings, infractions, bans and thread locked in no time
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056769049

    Ah jaysus. The lad might as well have posted "blokes are decent enough sorts" on tLL.

    But that's where the fanboys live, so to be expected. No, I was merely wondering about the tantrum throwing instant gratification bods who were posting last week, and why it's not seen for anything else. Ironically maybe, there'll be another iphone in a few months and they'll be out again.


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  • #22
    marketty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,066 ✭✭✭marketty


    There was a great 'toys out of the pram' thread on the three forum demanding an iPhone 5 by the end of the week OR ELSE!!! Twas gas but must hav been deleted seems to have disappeared


  • #23
    starlit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,349 ✭✭✭✭starlit


    A simple smartphone is enough doesn't have to cost an arm and a leg. Text, calls, photos, music, radio and internet is all you need!!! Gone are the times we just had a telephone! :/ Surely one edition for a user is enough unless it goes on the blink you'd get a new phone/any iphone!? What's the hype with iphones and the latest must have phones upgrading every 5 mins, I stopped doing it so I get good use out of the phones I have until they go on the blink or has something wrong with it! Is it worth wasting all that money on something that constantly evolve anyway!


  • #24
    4zn76tysfajdxp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    doovdela wrote: »
    Text, calls, photos, music, radio and internet is all you need!!!

    You don't really need most of those things in a phone, tbh.


  • #25
    starlit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,349 ✭✭✭✭starlit


    They are the typical things but text and calls is enough! :/ Why do you need an iphone then when there are just as good smartphones about for half the price!?


  • #26
    Hersheys
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,308 ✭✭✭Hersheys


    doovdela wrote: »
    They are the typical things but text and calls is enough! :/ Why do you need an iphone then when there are just as good smartphones about for half the price!?
    Why drive a lexus when you can drive a Toyota? Cos you can/you want to!


  • #27
    tolosenc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,889 ✭✭✭tolosenc


    Hersheys wrote: »
    Why drive a lexus when you can drive a Toyota? Cos you can/you want to!

    Why drive a Lexus when you can have a Jag, more like.


  • #28
    Greentopia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,221 ✭✭✭Greentopia


    Trevor Sticky Robbery wrote: »
    Because they want it. Haven't you ever wanted anything in your life?

    *raises hand* I have. But the things I like to buy for several hundred squid don't usually become obsolete and "uncool" as soon as a newer shinier model with an incremental upgrade are introduced on the market.

    The terms "more money than sense" and "a fool and their money are easily parted" springs to mind when I think of people rushing out for the latest version of phones or gadgets just to say they have one and to show it off to their mates, but hey ho, it's their cash, people are entitled to spend it as they wish.


  • #29
    RikkFlair
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,124 ✭✭✭RikkFlair


    Youssef Chippo wrote: »
    To keep up with the Jones', Ireland at it's materialistic worst.

    Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper.


  • #30
    Light Switch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 262 ✭✭Light Switch


    I don't know. :)


    Posted from my iPhone 5S Prototype.


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  • #31
    eth0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,632 ✭✭✭eth0


    RikkFlair wrote: »
    Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper.

    And they'll thank you for saving them so much money


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