Gotta love that Macalope! This time he takes to task Tom Kaneshige and his InfoWorld piece “A new etiquette for the iPhone generation”:
…people love showing off their iPhones.
Yeah, what is up with that?! My god, people! Get a phone you’re embarrassed of! Tuck it away in the closet! Bury it in a mason jar under your porch!
NEVER SPEAK OF IT AGAIN.
Well said.
Now the iPhone, the tech symbol of the “in” crowd, is on the verge of crossing the line into AIG-like excess and arrogance.
Hey, everyone! We’re getting a bailout and a taxpayer-funded trip to a spa! Whoo-hoo!
Ok, these are the two big things I hear from haters — the “in” crowd comment and the “show off” comment. Always makes me feel like I’m talking to one of my children, although at 11 years old, they don’t really use the “show off” phrase any more. They are really just two sides of the same coin. Let’s be clear, what people are complaining about when they make these wild accusations, is that they don’t love their device as much as iPhone users love their device, but they wish they did. It’s that simple.
For my part — and I can only speak from my own personal experience — I have noticed two things, with respect to the haters: (1) they tend to be almost exclusively Blackberry users; and (2) they all own iPods. Take that observation for what it’s worth.
