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Mine was a gift so I ain't locked into anything.

If you guys didn't notice, IT'S FUCKING AWESOME.

Um, it's an iPod with a phone and full internet.

Well, I never compared myself to the battered wife, but as a long time Mac user I have often compared myself to the children of neglectful and addicted parents, fiercely defending them whenever I perceived an attack from outside even though in my heart each day was a disappointment.

Why is it you poor folks without an iPhone always ask if we're "having any problems"? Why do you think we care about 'bricking'? Yes, I'm so traumatized by googling a restaurant or other business and just touching the screen to dial the number or get a map of its location. And it totally sucks that I finally have a phone that syncs perfectly with my laptop. Oh, and having to listen to my music on the same device that takes pictures, takes phone calls, and takes email. Yeah, totally traumatized.

I. Love. My. iPhone.

And the Kool-Aid is delicious!

After a malfunction, the iPhone just cries and promises never to do it again. You know the iPhone loves you, don't you? It just gets scared sometimes.

i just duct taped my cell phone to my laptop and put some stickers on it.
it's like 320032430 times better than an iPhone.
and it still mixes apple's faulty design scheme with AT&T's shitty service!
Score!

@momo: I can't even afford the Kool-Aid.

after the update I got this morning, your image of the phone screen is already out of date...new button to automatically toggle the itunes store has been added. Like I pay for any of my music.

@momo: It's because we're jealous and wanted desperately to believe the hype was unwarranted.
Speaking only for myself, of course.

The weird thing about all this backlash is that the item itself is actually really good.

I know Morrisey was right and we hate it when our friends become successful, but really - just because it's priced so that only trust-funders and Dbags can afford it, doesn't mean that it's not better than anything else on the market.

@concerned citizen: @momo: PS: According to Susan Miller there are still more financial woes coming my way this month, so it looks like I'll continue to refer to my solar-powered calculator as my iPhone and my real phone as "the other one."

@Trampoline: Although, speaking of DBs, I was at a wedding this weekend, and this really good looking guy in a nice suit was sporting an iPhone and he never took his eyes off it. It was a small wedding, and I was around him a lot at the reception, and over the course of a 6 hour reception, I literally never saw him when he wasn't fiddling with it, checking his email, Googling Crash Fucking Mansion or showing it off to a crowd of bystanders.

His girlfriend was hot and blond and totally pissed, too.

Sometimes it's nice to be reminded that having nice things isn't the same as having taste.

This was written by someone who is clearly still paying off their RAZR.

The iPhone set is just furious that the non-iPhone set is not all that impressed with their precious little, over-priced Phallic light-up toys.

if apple is a cult, it's like kabala and microsoft is christianity. they both come from the same roots (essentially), but microsoft is where the fearful and traditional will cling because it gives them the structure they need, despite it's obvious shortcomings and the way the beliefs are always contradicting and causing the system to freeze. apple might seem a little flaky and fruity, but it gives people enough structure to keep them going without limiting. it allows them to have some measure of peace and sanity without their systems constantly crashing.

But my Blackberry does all these things without forcing me into unholy union with AT&T... not to mention how much greasy fingerprints on glass surfaces freak me out.

@TheBigDoggy:

To quote the most brilliant Sicilian of all time, "You'd like to think that, wouldn't you?"

I find it silly that the people bitching about the price of the iPhone aren't the ones that own it.

But I don't have time to be furious; I'm too busy surfing the internet and seamlessly taking phone calls while listening to my iPod.

Service is in the ear of the beholder, by the way. I had Bell Atlantic/Verizon for 6-7 years and got spotty reception in my apartment and none in my office. Cingular/AT&T (which I switched to a couple years ago) has worked great for me, which I suppose is basically luck considering that the general consensus is that AT&T sucks.

Ad Age commentary on Apple users seems even more myopic than conservative think tanks on global warming.

@TheBigDoggy: Remind me never to look at your phallus if it is, indeed, shaped like an iPhone.

@supastah: ...but kabala is a trendy money-grifting scheme for people who have little understanding (and I'm being charitable here) of Judaism. So where are you going with this?

I wouldn't defend the iphone because I'm part of the Mac cult (which I am). It looks like a great little toy to me. I just can't bring myself to buy one - not because it's overpriced (I don't think it is), or because of the service required (eh).

I don't have one simply because I LIKE having times & places where no one can reach me! Where I can't get any calls or emails or be tempted to surf the web. Call me kooky, but I like getting away from the electronic gadgets and getting out where there are actual humans that I can interact with in-person and when I do that I don't want some insufferable little toy ringing out like a two year old & demanding my continual attention.

But man, do I hate apple products now. I hate them so much. I used to use both operating systems, depending on what I had to do (High school lit mag? Use the Mac. Time to play Quake? Use the PC.) But dear God, when it became a club rather than a thing I own, I got out. I tell the things I own who I am, apple, not vice versa! Ask my Roomba who's in charge...ME!

@GothamTomato: So with you on this. I'm finding our society's continued and increasing dependence on these fragile little techological artifacts a little alarming, actually.

@GothamTomato: So just turn your phone off or don't take it with you. It's not that hard. Or just live on the subway (for now!)

Showing that there are no bounds to lawsuit insanity, a Queens resident is suing Apple for marking down the price of the iPhone - and she wants $1 million. Why? Because now she can't sell them for a profit on eBay! Damn you, Steve Jobs, and your possibly faltering precious product!

Three weeks ago I travelled to Berlin and London. Everytime I pulled my iPhone out of my pocket Europeans would stop and stare at it. Many of them eventually asked excitedly "Is that the iPhone?!". When I said yes and handed it to them so they could experience it first hand they acted like little kids on Christmas morning. And they said all of Europe is terribly jealous that we have the iPhone before they do. That experience alone was worth the price of admission.

Why oh why didn't I spend my money on Mets tickets? Stupid iPhone!

Did you hear about the irate woman in Queens who's suing Apple for raising the price? Ridiculous.

I'm not saying I invented domestic violence (my father did) but I've been comparing my relationship with Apple to spousal abuse for weeks.

I was ready to make up and forgive Apple's price slap but the iBricking has convinced me Steve Jobs doesn't mean it when he says he's sorry and buys me flowers.