WC Poll: iPhone... Yes or No?

I'd get one if I had the money.

Monday, July 2, 2007 by Zoomba | Discussion: WinCustomize News

It's Monday, so time for yet another poll.  Last week I asked everyone to give the site an overall grade for quality of service provided.  It's been just almost 6 months since the new site went live and I wanted to get a feel for how everyone feels  we've been doing since then.  In general, everyone seems pretty happy with how things have been working.  In total, 77% of you thought we were either doing "Good" or "Excellent" and only a handful of you actually gave us a failing grade.  I'm really glad everyone has been so happy with the site this past half year and I hope we continue to meet and exceed your expectations.

Here's the breakdown in pretty picture form:

This week the poll is simple.  Did you get an iPhone this weekend?  With all the hype spinning around the product launch which kicked off this weekend, I was wondering if anyone here actually made the plunge and spent a month's salary on the latest wonder-gadget from the folks at Apple. 

Results next week.

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Philly0381
Reply #1 Monday, July 2, 2007 2:30 PM
Yes, there are quite a few people out there that just have to have the latest gadget. Nothing wrong with that, we all do at certain times.

There is alot of hype out there, mostly coming from Apple. This product seems to be one that the consumers really need to research before buying.

If I read the reviews right you have to sign a 5 year service contract with AT&T. How many of you with cell phones keep the some one for that long? The technology chages to quick and often to be tied down like that.   

Zoomba
Reply #2 Monday, July 2, 2007 2:45 PM
You sign a 2 year service contract with AT&T, like just about any other phone service out there.  Apple however has signed a 5 year exclusive with AT&T, so they're the only service that can sell them until 2012.

messiah1
Reply #3 Monday, July 2, 2007 2:59 PM
I like the newest whiz-bang gadgets like most, however, 600 bucks is a lot to shell out for a phone/ipod. I've got a phone and I've got an ipod, and i can get on the internet right here at my trusty pc...WOULD i get one, if I had disposable income...yes. WILL i get one...no.

Philly0381
Reply #4 Monday, July 2, 2007 3:05 PM
Thanks for the correction Zoomba, just goes to show you either I read what I wanted to or the reviewer got it wrong. Not to be the square peg in the round hole, but I have a Tracfone, no contract.   

Astyanax
Reply #5 Monday, July 2, 2007 3:25 PM
If im going to spend 600 dollars it sure as hell wont be on a phone.

sViz
Reply #6 Monday, July 2, 2007 3:58 PM
If im going to spend 600 dollars it sure as hell wont be on a phone.


Amen to that. On the other hand, these days you're not really buying a phone; you're practically buying another computer!

messiah1
Reply #7 Monday, July 2, 2007 4:49 PM
If im going to spend 600 dollars it sure as hell wont be on a phone.


Yup.

ALMonty
Reply #8 Monday, July 2, 2007 4:50 PM
if anyone here actually made the plunge and spent a month's salary on the latest wonder-gadget


If you make 5 to 6 hundred dollars a month it's time to get a second job  

As for me I usually go out and get the latest gadget (3 RZARs and a SLVR) but I think I'm going to wait on this one.

Tsumana
Reply #9 Monday, July 2, 2007 6:37 PM
I'd buy one but unfortunately I lack the money to get it, that and I live in the UK where we don't have iPhones.

Excalpius
Reply #10 Monday, July 2, 2007 6:40 PM
If I got one, I'd only use it as an uber-iPod. AT&T is the worst choice they could have had for a provider. But the reason the iPod is ubiquitous is because it wasn't locked into a single source vendor. Locking the iPhone to AT&T for 5 years was a terrible mistake.

Jafo
Reply #11 Monday, July 2, 2007 9:17 PM

It's an hysteria-fed fad, just like the iPod.

Anyone rushing out frantically to buy one probably needs a priority-reset button.

How long till the first mugged-for-iPhone reports?

iPod and its 'signature' white earphones.....didn't shout out 'STATUS SYMBOL'...it shouted instead 'MUG ME'...

I doubt I'll ever buy anything spelled with a lower case 'i'.

Maybe I'm just an iDiot ....


sViz
Reply #12 Monday, July 2, 2007 9:47 PM
How long till the first mugged-for-iPhone reports?


A friend of mine said the same thing. They don't call it a craze for nothing.  

ZubaZ
Reply #13 Monday, July 2, 2007 10:29 PM
How long till the first mugged-for-iPhone reports?

Zubaz looks toward Island Dog enviously and put on his running shoes.

Aleatoric
Reply #14 Monday, July 2, 2007 10:30 PM
Unless it's unlocked, it's not an option

Besides, it's a first gen product, never buy a first gen product


whiterabbit007
Reply #15 Tuesday, July 3, 2007 12:10 AM
Well, since I'm in Canada I don't even have the option yet... seriously, wth is that about!? We're right on top of you. There are people who live on one side of the border and work on the other. Why in the name of all that's good and pure do we always have to wait longer (latest rumor puts the iphone in winter up here) for the latest stuff??

Anyway, my rants aside, to be honest I just don't need half the stuff the iphone has and it's missing half the stuff I'd want in a device like that. So I'm gonna wait for either v2 or maybe something better that'll come along. For now I'm satisfied with what I have.

What I don't understand is why did apple make that contract with AT&T? I mean am I really suppose to believe that AT&T gave apple enough money to cover all those users that would've bought the iphone if it were available from other providers for 5 years!?! 'Cause I don't see any other reason why apple would want to limit the iphone to one, apparently not very good, network.

Wet Monkey
Reply #16 Tuesday, July 3, 2007 2:32 AM
Can't believe there is so much made about this device. Ditto to most of the comments above. Think I'll wait till the version with the Terra-former, Transporter and universal Translator comes out and get it only when they rename to the iT.

nightbirdsf
Reply #17 Tuesday, July 3, 2007 3:53 AM
I'm thinking about getting a Motorola Q from Amp'd, along with a Motorola stereo Bluetooth headset.

I'll admit Apple's smart phone looks nice, but if it doesn't do what *I* want, why should I pay US$600?

kin242
Reply #18 Tuesday, July 3, 2007 4:28 AM
I cant wait to see what the competition bring out! Apple always win on the hype but their products are a long way from being the best. They sell to and cater exclusively for the fashion-following sheep and people who buy brands not products.

starkers
Reply #19 Tuesday, July 3, 2007 6:43 AM
Not available here in Oz, but I wouldn't have one even if it were....not even if it were given to me, free, for nix, gratis, etc. I've never carried a phobile mone, and no gadget weighing in at an enormous $600 US is gonna convince me to suddenly become fashionable. That translates to around AU$900, and no over-hyped/over-priced new fangled gizmo is gonna prompt my (non) desire to keep up with the Jonses...in this case, Jobses...it ain't never gonna happen.

Fashions/trends come and go, but I've always been a shorts/jeans and T-shirt type of bloke, so no amount of marketing gobbledegook/hype has a hope of transforming me into one of the 'in' crowd/mindless sheep.

NightTrainthedark
Reply #20 Tuesday, July 3, 2007 6:51 AM
Just wait and see the service At @ T provides after the first or second year of all this. Your phone will be useless unless you live under a tower. If it is even still in 1 piece then. I have gone through a phone a year for bout 10 -12 years now. Thats over $6,000.00 in iphones for the next decade. I think I'll take the opt out road.   


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