I don't want an iPhone. Am I normal?

chrispafc

The voices of the masses speaks grumbler!

Gordon_Hose

People buy iPhones because they want to. Just the same as people buy McCains chips over the supermarkets own brand.

It's called choice.

StevieJ

chrispafc wrote: »

I had the pleasure of playing with an iPhone 4S the other day but I could not see any significant advantage of the phone over a decent Android apart from the internal memory.

Are people really prepared to fork out £100+ plus a £40 a month contract?

Can someone explain the logic.

I have never had a smart phone before and I am looking at the moment, these are what affect my IPhone view

For
Size - Decent smallish size
Security - Controlled apps, so less lilely to download a baddy.
Performance - Seems to have most things covered.
Siri - Could be a godsend

Against
Cost
Restricted expansion

BTW I think I will be going for the S.E. Ray, anyone own this model, any views?

DUTR

chrispafc wrote: »

I had the pleasure of playing with an iPhone 4S the other day but I could not see any significant advantage of the phone over a decent Android apart from the internal memory.

Are people really prepared to fork out £100+ plus a £40 a month contract?

Can someone explain the logic.

As per post #4 , it's all about choice, although I am loving my experia ray, I don't think I would like a world with just android phones

jenniewb

OP you sound like my sister! She had an old old blackberry (my mum was given one for work back in 2005, at the end of her 2 year contract she was able to keep the BB and get a new handset, she gave the BB to my sister.) My sister recently upgraded to an iphone 4s and when asking her about it her response was "yeah, its not all that"!

Wow! I had/have wanted one of these, am resigned to the fact I will never own one (even if I found a decent contract I have a rubbish credit history and wouldn't get a contract offer anyway).

I guess it all depends on what your needs are from a phone and if these things matter more to you then say a new pair of shoes each month or a night or two out with friends or whatever else you can get for £40 a month. For my sister for example it means no more peroxide hair each month (plus cut and treatment) so she feels like she's lost barbie to modern technology. She's not a music buff, her BB emailed people is the same as on an iphone. The very things the iphone is good at she doesn't care for, the very things she has had to give up she misses and so in comparison saying the iphone "isn't all that" makes total sense.

I've offered to take it off her hands but she didn't like that idea, maybe I need to become a hairdresser and offer to do her hair for free to be able to do that!

im-lost

grumbler wrote: »

Not another thread, please....
I don't want an iPhone. Am I normal?
What phone to go for iPhone 4s , Android , Windows Phone or BlackBerry
iPhone or Galaxy 2?
MSE News: iPhone 5 release date rumour round-up + MSE News: Apple launches iPhone 4S

ETA: IMO, your question is incorrect. There is no point in asking why rich people buy Porsche for cash. The correct question would be why poor people buy new Mercedes on car finance.

do you have all your links in notepad or something?

If you don't like peoples repetitive questions then don't look at them and
don't reply, simples, are you so sad and have no life that you spend 24
hours a day on here nit picking?

movilogo

Because Apple's clever marketing made them convinced that if they don't own iPhones, they won't be cool

They also try to announce - see I can afford an expensive phone.

But to me I translate that saying "see, I have lower IQ than average"

grumbler

im-lost wrote: »

do you have all your links in notepad or something?

No, I just am capable of using the 'Search' tool

If you don't like peoples repetitive questions then don't look at them and
don't reply, simples, are you so sad and have no life that you spend 24
hours a day on here nit picking?

If you don't have an answer to the OP's question, don't reply, simples.

Unlike you, I posted the links that contained dozens of answers to the question asked. I assumed that it was the answers that the OP wanted, not just another pointless thread with posts like yours.

Rev

It does eveything I want it to do and I prefer iOS over android. Personal opinion. My first iPhone was a 3G. Which I got free on a £25 a month contract. Sold it 4 months after getting it for £250 and bought the iPhone 4 direct from apple. So I've had two iPhones and spent £250 in total (handset cost alone - I usually buy my own handsets and keep a contract sim).

I don't think £250 is expensive for two smart phones. I actualy got offered a great deal on the 4S by o2 but decided against it as it's not worth the upgrade from the 4. But if I did, I'd sell the 4, get the 4S on a deal from o2 and use the cash from the 4 to pay, and have some left over.

Yes there are fan boys who line up outside apple shops with their £600 for the newest model, personally I think that's daft. But as already said, it's personal choice.

I also love that iPhones have a good resale price. When I got my 3G is was a three year old model, yet I still sold it for £250. Find me another phone besides an iPhone I could do that with?

Gordon_Hose

im-lost wrote: »

do you have all your links in notepad or something?

If you don't like peoples repetitive questions then don't look at them and
don't reply, simples, are you so sad and have no life that you spend 24
hours a day on here nit picking?

This post fails so hard.

How are we supposed to know it's a repetitive question without looking at it in the first place?

Do you go around forums picking up people who try and help by posting links to relevant threads that actually provide the OP with an answer?

Maybe it is you who should set off in search of the elusive 'life' you are so quick to assume grumbler doesn't have.