You could replace any mention of "iPhone" in this list with "Blackberry" or even "smartphone".
1. The Blackberry changes your brain chemistry. For better and for worse it makes you feel good and want more (mechanism of action be damned).
2. The Blackberry gives you an excuse to step outside and fiddle with something when you feel like not working for fifteen minutes.
3. The Blackberry gives you something to do in boring interstitial situations, like waiting in line at the store, or waiting for the bathroom, or waiting in line for the bathroom at the store.
4. The Blackberry gives you something to do with your hands in awkward situations.
5. In really awkward situations the Blackberry gives you a way to check out entirely (granted, that’s a slightly different type of cigarette).
6. When you’re using your Blackberry in public, some people will think you look sophisticated. Others will think you’re annoying.
This article seems like an annoying attempt to get some attention / linkbait.
what's wrong is its a lame article. It's uninteresting, makes no sense and encourages no worthwhile discussion. It just makes this site look dumb basically. I'm encouraging everyone I can to flag it, sadly it's over that 10 votes limit for automatic killing so hopefully a mod will take note.
- Frequently dropped calls
- 3G connection problems
- Delayed SMS and voicemails (sometimes by days)
- App store problems
- Short battery life
Some of these are AT&T's fault, no doubt. But I've had AT&T for the better part of a decade, and I've never had so many "network" problems as when I bought an iPhone. When your phone has dropped an important phone call with the CEO of a public company three times in 5 minutes in Central Park in New York City, it makes you want to break the piece of junk into a million pieces.
But the promise of the phone, and the experience when it does work, is really quite good. It's just not a piece of equipment you can rely on. I struggle with the thought of getting rid of it quite often, yet just can't seem to pull the trigger.
Or you could make an argument about the debatable efficacy of secondhand smoke. (I have heard people claiming that secondhand smoke is not as bad as people make it out to be. I do not have sources for this, nor am I particularly arguing it.)
Also, what about all the E&M radiation? If you want to go out on a limb, it's a little less tenuous than finger-cancer...
1. The Blackberry changes your brain chemistry. For better and for worse it makes you feel good and want more (mechanism of action be damned).
2. The Blackberry gives you an excuse to step outside and fiddle with something when you feel like not working for fifteen minutes.
3. The Blackberry gives you something to do in boring interstitial situations, like waiting in line at the store, or waiting for the bathroom, or waiting in line for the bathroom at the store.
4. The Blackberry gives you something to do with your hands in awkward situations.
5. In really awkward situations the Blackberry gives you a way to check out entirely (granted, that’s a slightly different type of cigarette).
6. When you’re using your Blackberry in public, some people will think you look sophisticated. Others will think you’re annoying.
This article seems like an annoying attempt to get some attention / linkbait.