A Farewell to iPhones forever

**caliskimmer** · 08-31-2010, 12:06 AM

Just like Justkeptfading's thread, I would like to say a few (more lousy than his) words. First off, I have to say that my 3 iPhones did the job at a time when no other phone came close. Not only did it excite me beyond my beliefs to leave the awful Instinct that Christmas 2 years ago, but it opened me up to the world of mobile phones beyond the usual get this or that. If it were not for the iPhone, I would be sitting here with an LG Rumor Touch knowing absolutely nothing, nor caring about mobile OS's or displays. But now it is time for the Epic to arrive and I must leave the 3G s behind. Farewell, iPhone, you will be remembered as the last phone before Steve Jobs decided to want to become dictator of technology and control.

Well, I'm done. So who's ready for the Epic 4g tomorrow!

**hotis300boy** · 08-31-2010, 12:08 AM

yezzir

**justkeptfading** · 08-31-2010, 12:08 AM

Thanks for the shout out bud! And what do you mean "more lousy"? Lol.

**caliskimmer** · 08-31-2010, 12:10 AM

Originally Posted by justkeptfading

Thanks for the shout out bud! And what do you mean "more lousy"? Lol.

Your words were better!

**justkeptfading** · 08-31-2010, 12:12 AM

Originally Posted by caliskimmer

Your words were better!

Nawww, just different.

**caliskimmer** · 08-31-2010, 12:15 AM

Originally Posted by justkeptfading

Nawww, just different.

Lol, thanks!

**eazid** · 08-31-2010, 12:44 AM

Indeed. I'm excited for Samsung and the proliferation of the Android OS.

**keishiyamada** · 08-31-2010, 12:51 AM

You're certainly picking the right horse.

The iPhone's real advantage is their otherwise un-mac-like capacity to stay competitive spec wise.

Soon that will end.

**darrylmendo** · 08-31-2010, 01:00 AM

Another milestone for the android invasion!

**darkoor** · 08-31-2010, 01:05 AM

I have to agree totally, this phone looks amazing and having dropped Iphone for the Hero - I love the android os, and cant wait for this massive improvement

for those who havnt played with it, this is a defin Iphone killa lol

but there is really nothing someone would miss, and a ton of improvements you just cant/wont get with apple

**aquaboy1976** · 08-31-2010, 01:12 AM

I have never had an iPhone, but after using an Android phone I have zero interest in doing so! The iPhone definitely has some pros that would be of interest to me I'm sure, but I say Android "All The Way across the sky!" Viva la Epic 4G! I don't think the iPhone would get the level of customization as any Android phone. Heck, at this point with Android taking up more and more market share, I think developers are going to start looking at Android phones first!

**caliskimmer** · 08-31-2010, 01:15 AM

Android ftw! The phone indeed looks amazing and even after using the EVO for a week, I made my decision to go Android instead of Apple. Besides, how could a robot not devour a fruit? lol

**bmahecha123#ac** · 08-31-2010, 01:16 AM

The age of the iphone ruling the market is over. I hope they keep making strong competetive products, thats what makes the market grow.

**caliskimmer** · 08-31-2010, 01:17 AM

Originally Posted by BMahecha123

The age of the iphone ruling the market is over. I hope they keep making strong competetive products, thats what makes the market grow.

agreed.

**mooshubob** · 08-31-2010, 01:21 AM

Cali, I wholeheartedly agree with your sentiments. I, too, was enthralled by the iPhones for the longest time. My journey began as an impressionable teenager, buying the original iPhone 2G for the whopping $600 it first retailed at (what can I say? It was the coolest device I had ever seen). It was quite literally perfect - I remember the night I got it quite vividly, buying off of a really nice man from Craigslist, with the full box + original gift bag.

Sadly, my tryst was not to last. I was relaxing, poolside, at a friends BBQ when my classmate pushed me into the pool as a harmless (or so I thought) prank. When I emerged, cursing jovially, I immediately felt the cold embrace of adrenaline strike my chest - my precious iPhone was in my pocket!!!! The horror.

I attempted everything - hairdrying it, putting it in a bag of rice, etc., to no avail. Fortunately, I had rich friends, and the one who pushed me in shared in my remorse (although I must say to a much lesser degree), and gave me $200 so that I may replace it. But how could I replace perfection? Is it virtuous to even think it possible to do so? So, with heart (and hat) in hand, I proceeded to the Apple Store, and purchased the iPhone 3G - and my passion was reignited! Such rapture! My original iPhone had emerged through the fires of Perdition; reborn, as a phoenix blazing on AT&T's (then) fast 3G network.

Our joy, too, was long and prosperous. Jailbreaks, dates, parties, Prom, Graduation, Freshman year of college, my 3G served me faithfully, without complaint or punishment - but it was not to be! My own ambition, nay!, greed for greater speed, greater glory, greater camera options drove me to encourage my mother to upgrade to the 3G[S], so that I may snatch her newborn away, replacing it with my dignified, esteemed, "vintage" model.

The universe, of course, sought its unstoppable revenge - karma. Scarcely two months passed before my phone began dying irreparably. Fearing my jailbreak had unleashed some heretofore unknown virus upon my child, I trawled the interweb for any signs of hope, any spark, or glimmer of salvation. DFU mode, recovery mode, full restore, restore without SIM card, everything was tried - and utterly failed. So, again, heart (and hat) in hand, I proceeded to the Apple Store, where those stalwart defenders of justice (most improperly named "Geniuses") threw my child into the great maw of the stock room, diagnosing its affliction as "hardware defect". Oh how a parent never wishes to hear those words uttered.

But rejoice, good friends, as my child was replaced - nay!, cloned and given back to me, healthier than ever before, until the present.

We are in troubled times, good sirs and madames. Troubled times indeed. There is relentless persecution of all that is good, and just, and those that originally encouraged us to "think different" are now spell- and grammar-checking that to "think differently"!

Yes, I do refer to Master Jobs and the remainder of his ilk. Do they think themselves gods, to control us so? Or merely the invisible pupper-masters, silently controlling the strings - encouraging us to dance this way, then that? No, I will not stand for this, not as long as I hold breath in my body, and money in my wallet enough to switch.

For there truly are greener pastures just across the double rainbows.

Now throughout all of this ordeal, notice, friends, that I never place any blame upon my sweet, sweet iChildren - for, why should we cast down the children if the parents are responsible for the madness? Nay, we shall not encourage castes in this world. My devices have served me with the utmost honor, respect, and obedience, even when I used them to research those that will replace them (this is not to say, however, that if Master Jobs had the power to stop them from doing so, he would not).

So, fair iPhones, I must bid you adieu. I shall miss your utter simplicity, as well as the amazing customization you offered me after I broke you free from your walled garden. Think not that you are being replaced - nothing could be further from the truth. Know that you are afforded the privilege of retiring with your dignity, and my love for you, intact. I fear that if I must hold on to you any longer, Master Jobs' tightening fingers of control, coupled with AT&T's mediocre-at-best service, I will grow to utterly resent, and, I shudder to think, hate you.

Enjoy the pastures in your idyllic meadows, I shall call upon you, especially when I require an unlocked phone in my travels. Until then, au revoir, and sleep well.

**xvenom89** · 08-31-2010, 01:23 AM

I'm not sure that any phone in the next year or two is going to make Apple hurt so bad that they lose a major chunk of their market share and fans. Not saying I don't want it to happen, because I do. I'm really looking forward to the day Android becomes the leader of smart phones!

**latinfavio** · 08-31-2010, 01:23 AM

I love android phones as well, I only wish that both sprint and Tmobile stopped offering phones carrying anything less that 2.1. That being said I do like the slight differentiation in the galaxy series of phones. I think the Epic might end up being the better of the 4 though.

**Archerdude** · 08-31-2010, 01:23 AM

I-hate I-anything. Your reign is I-over. Its time for consumers to lead technology now.

**caliskimmer** · 08-31-2010, 01:27 AM

Originally Posted by mooshubob

Cali, I wholeheartedly agree with your sentiments. I, too, was enthralled by the iPhones for the longest time. My journey began as an impressionable teenager, buying the original iPhone 2G for the whopping $600 it first retailed at (what can I say? It was the coolest device I had ever seen). It was quite literally perfect - I remember the night I got it quite vividly, buying off of a really nice man from Craigslist, with the full box + original gift bag.

Sadly, my tryst was not to last. I was relaxing, poolside, at a friends BBQ when my classmate pushed me into the pool as a harmless (or so I thought) prank. When I emerged, cursing jovially, I immediately felt the cold embrace of adrenaline strike my chest - my precious iPhone was in my pocket!!!! The horror.

I attempted everything - hairdrying it, putting it in a bag of rice, etc., to no avail. Fortunately, I had rich friends, and the one who pushed me in shared in my remorse (although I must say to a much lesser degree), and gave me $200 so that I may replace it. But how could I replace perfection? Is it virtuous to even think it possible to do so? So, with heart (and hat) in hand, I proceeded to the Apple Store, and purchased the iPhone 3G - and my passion was reignited! Such rapture! My original iPhone had emerged through the fires of Perdition; reborn, as a phoenix blazing on AT&T's (then) fast 3G network.

Our joy, too, was long and prosperous. Jailbreaks, dates, parties, Prom, Graduation, Freshman year of college, my 3G served me faithfully, without complaint or punishment - but it was not to be! My own ambition, nay!, greed for greater speed, greater glory, greater camera options drove me to encourage my mother to upgrade to the 3G[S], so that I may snatch her newborn away, replacing it with my dignified, esteemed, "vintage" model.

The universe, of course, sought its unstoppable revenge - karma. Scarcely two months passed before my phone began dying irreparably. Fearing my jailbreak had unleashed some heretofore unknown virus upon my child, I trawled the interweb for any signs of hope, any spark, or glimmer of salvation. DFU mode, recovery mode, full restore, restore without SIM card, everything was tried - and utterly failed. So, again, heart (and hat) in hand, I proceeded to the Apple Store, where those stalwart defenders of justice (most improperly named "Geniuses") threw my child into the great maw of the stock room, diagnosing its affliction as "hardware defect". Oh how a parent never wishes to hear those words uttered.

But rejoice, good friends, as my child was replaced - nay!, cloned and given back to me, healthier than ever before, until the present.

We are in troubled times, good sirs and madames. Troubled times indeed. There is relentless persecution of all that is good, and just, and those that originally encouraged us to "think different" are now spell- and grammar-checking that to "think differently"!

Yes, I do refer to Master Jobs and the remainder of his ilk. Do they think themselves gods, to control us so? Or merely the invisible pupper-masters, silently controlling the strings - encouraging us to dance this way, then that? No, I will not stand for this, not as long as I hold breath in my body, and money in my wallet enough to switch.

For there truly are greener pastures just across the double rainbows.

Now throughout all of this ordeal, notice, friends, that I never place any blame upon my sweet, sweet iChildren - for, why should we cast down the children if the parents are responsible for the madness? Nay, we shall not encourage castes in this world. My devices have served me with the utmost honor, respect, and obedience, even when I used them to research those that will replace them (this is not to say, however, that if Master Jobs had the power to stop them from doing so, he would not).

So, fair iPhones, I must bid you adieu. I shall miss your utter simplicity, as well as the amazing customization you offered me after I broke you free from your walled garden. Think not that you are being replaced - nothing could be further from the truth. Know that you are afforded the privilege of retiring with your dignity, and my love for you, intact. I fear that if I must hold on to you any longer, Master Jobs' tightening fingers of control, coupled with AT&T's mediocre-at-best service, I will grow to utterly resent, and, I shudder to think, hate you.

Enjoy the pastures in your idyllic meadows, I shall call upon you, especially when I require an unlocked phone in my travels. Until then, au revoir, and sleep well.

And you, good sir, deserve a fine "Thanks" cookie from the Garden of Android where openness is welcome and Closed shalt never dare to enter.

**caliskimmer** · 08-31-2010, 01:30 AM

That's it, Jobs! I was once loyal to you because of your outstanding products, but now that you are pushing your crappy false iInformation about the anti-iPhones and now that you have not updated a Macbook design since 2009, I must say you are now a boring person who does not care about the business society anymore, but only about your non-technologically sound iSheep.

Steve Jobs the shepherd of all evil and iSheep.

**mooshubob** · 08-31-2010, 01:32 AM

Come then, sir. We shall embark upon this beautiful voyage together as comrades and compatriots. Let all who stand in the way of progress and openness shiver and quake!

**aquaboy1976** · 08-31-2010, 01:36 AM

Originally Posted by BMahecha123

The age of the iphone ruling the market is over. I hope they keep making strong competetive products, thats what makes the market grow.

I wholeheartedly agree! Competition is what keeps them making better products!

**caliskimmer** · 08-31-2010, 01:41 AM

Originally Posted by mooshubob

Come then, sir. We shall embark upon this beautiful voyage together as comrades and compatriots. Let all who stand in the way of progress and openness shiver and quake!

Indeed!

**caliskimmer** · 08-31-2010, 01:42 AM

Man, I've never seen a crowd like this over here! I think we all owe a big thanks to Phil who brought more people to us.

**abhishekduggal** · 08-31-2010, 02:17 AM

Editors' note, August 18, 2010: "Upon further analysis, we have upgraded the rating of the Samsung Epic 4G to 8.7"

This has got me even more excited!!!