I am Iphoneless :)
July 12, 2008 – 3:05 pmSo yesterday was the Ipocalypse and it only annoyed me a little bit. I had to research Rogers corporate information and their Web server was down. Dixit for phone access for most of the day.
So everyone was talking about this and there I was NOT waiting in line. Not only do I not have an Iphone but I don’t even want one. I don’t even envy people who do. I got my first cell phone over 10 years ago and SMS the hell out of the first two years. I even had a program that would send status messages via SMS. It got old even before other people discovered that they could waste more time by slowly typing trivial gossip via text messaging. I don’t have a cell phone anymore… perhaps it’s because Fido charged me 50$ for calls I attempted to make from New York that would not actually go through. I had racked up over 10 years of loyal customership with Fido only to realize that they don’t care… They don’t have to.
The cell phone industry is THE most unsatisfying service provider yet people are really obsessed with their cell phone.
I now carry a really shitty phone activated on a pay-as-you-go plan… It belongs to my associate who only comes to Canada a few times a year. I very rarely use it and only 2 people know my number (other than the other business associates.) Some may think I am an inconsiderate bitch because I won’t give them my cell phone number but sincerely, I often forget it at home or find it off because I forgot to “feed it”. Why would I waste your time by giving you a number for a phone I keep forgetting I have.
Being constantly plugged in was cool while Kevin Rose minded the chat room on The Screen Savers… now I just don’t care about information overload anymore.
Did 6 million people really think they were going to be cool for having a 3G on launch day?!
