I like my iPhone.
It’s not only functional, it’s a pretty amazing bit of design.
But as a matter of principle, I want to jam a pie in the face of every single subject of this article:
“Keeping your iPhone in its most minimalist state is always preferred in design circles,” says Shayna Kulik, brand strategist and founder of trend forecasting site Pattern Pulp.
It’s about people who don’t buy protective cases for their iPhones – as a matter of principle:
So who is this creative cult potentially sacrificing hundreds of dollars or more for the sleek look and feel of their case-free iPhone? For one, they seem to worship at the altar of Apple…Aubrie Pagano, CEO and founder of made-to-order clothing site Bow & Drape, agrees: “To throw a $5.99 plastic bedazzled cover over an iPhone corrupts its integrity.”
Sorry, millennial dweebs. I have no money to waste on replacing something that is hugely useful but – I stress this – very expensive outside of my biennial contract.
And so I use an Otter Box.
And until iPhone screens are less fragile than Lindsay Lohan’s sobriety, I will.
(Android people: Yes, I know. I’ve heard it all before. Don’t care. All of your comments will be mutilated for my pleasure).
So a protective case on your Iphone is heresy, installing and playing Candy Crush is not?
Apple sucks. In every way. It’s a pretty eye candy, but has fallen way behind technology curve. Apple modus operandi is to hold back technology, wait for others to commercialize it first, then dole it out peicemeal every year, so fanatical Apple accolyte lemmings would buy a new trinket every year. Suckers.
And no, I do not have an Android phone. It runs Windows.
Stylishly Stupid.
I saw my niece’s IPhone (she’s 13). The glass was cracked — really cracked, not an illusion. I asked her how that happened and she giggled. Her dad told me it was the fashion, all the kids were cracking the glass on their smart phones. Is this true?
JPA,
Apple is a design practice and a marketing philosophy.
Part of the design practice is “getting technology out of the user’s way”. I like that.
Android is designed for people who like to futz with technology. I’ve never worked with a Windows phone, so I couldn’t tell you there.
I’m not married to one or the other; I happen to use the Apple because the price was right for the deal I got.
I bought an I phone 5 last year for the first time. I got so frustrated that my ham fisted ape hands couldn’t touch the tiny spots to activate some features.
Then I bought a cover for it that I thought I could put business cards in, seeing I businessman. I found out later the compartment for what I thought was business cards is about a 1/16th of an inch too small. I had to cut them with the paper cutter at work to get them to fit. Apple products are not designed for people in business.
Except for a few minor quirks, I love my HTC one.
Also in the market for a tablet, a tablet that you can actually put a flash drive in. Apple Products are not designed for people in business.
Apple products are fine for people who are mentally agile enough to think like an Apple software designer would think and therefore instinctively know where to look, which icon to tap. I lack that ability due to years of mental abuse by Microsoft (to Stop your computer, click Start, of course).
I have no comment on anything Apple.
My wife likes her iPhone, but I use an Android.
Mostly because I like to be able to write apps for my phone without buying an Apple desktop environment (even if I use Corona Labs to build it). *shakes fist*
And I hold a grudge against pre-iCloud iTunes. *shakes fist*
Maybe silly reasons, but they’re mine. 🙂
I am a tech nerd. Apple products and interface are about as instinctive as a flight deck of a 747. But since it had been reported and advertized ad nauseum that it is instinctive, it must be so.
Short anecdote: when my daughter was 7, she saw an add on TV for Lucky Charms. She never had it before, but decided to try it. The sour look on her face when she tried a spoonfull was priceless. But even better was the quote: “But the man on TV said it was magically delicious!”
Disclaimer: I have nothing against Lucky Charms, it is a matter of personal taste.
My daughter got an iPhone5. Actually, that’s not true. She got three this year. Two were stolen and one she destroyed when she slipped going down some stairs and had it in her back pocket. That last one was impressively destroyed.
I got her an LG G2 since she and iPhones don’t mix. She’s not looking back. She liked the iPhones at the start, but her comment was that Android 4.2 was smoother and faster. In fact, I just ordered the Google version of that G2 for my wife for $350 (the Nexus 5).
I like Apple products the same way I appreciate art: framed, on the wall, and behind a velvet rope. Most of the products are good, but I hate iTunes with a passion that destroys any possibility of me using an Apple product that requires the use of iTunes.
I made my phone wait in line for me.
Until about a month ago, my company issued us BlackBerry’s, mainly because out of the box, they are the most secure cell phone out there. Along about the time our management decided that maintaining the BlackBerry server was too expensive, Sophos, an excellent anti-virus product, came out with their end point security component, making any mobile device just as secure. So, we all got iPhone 4S devices and Otterbox Defender cases. So far, I have dropped it 3 times and I just keep rolling.