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The average person over fifty will have spent 5 years waiting in queues
Apple addicts call iDoctor
AN AUSSIE bloke is making a fortune fixing broken Iphones for panicking fanboys who need a 24 hour Apple fix.
Rob Jacobs set up his iDoctor service when he started to notice how jittery Apple fanboys got when their phones broke down.
It seems that they have to face the dual psychological problem that they are without a phone and the fact they believed that the phone cannot break down because Steve Jobs told them so.
But, as we have said in the past, the Iphone does break down and as a result Jacobs has 670 regular patients.
He said the fanboys he deals with can't be without their Iphones for five minutes and he gets calls after 10 o'clock at night and punters waiting outside his door at 6.30am in tears saying 'Please fix my phone.'
They are also discovering that they are tied to phone contracts in which service providers would not replace their phones once damaged.
Clearly since Steve gave his blessing to these lock-in deals they wrongly assumed that they were good for their health, rather than Steve's bank balance. µ
L'Inq
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I have dropped mine 3 time from 5 1/2 feet to the ground with concrete scratches to prove it. This phone was purchase when first released a 1 1/2 ago and is still rockin. Don't try and tell the world the phone is unreliable because 670 #@#$ tards sat theres.
I paid 600 and in 2 days when the 32gb is announced I'll give up another 200 for simple the best phone ever made.
Haha, they saw you coming!
You dropped your $600 phone not once, not twice, but three times from 5 1/2 feet and you're calling the other 670 people 'tards'? Is it because they aren't dropping in a way that St. Steve would aprove of? Oh yeah, you're a fanboi.
I must have missed the part of Apple's advertising that claimed iPhones were immune to failure or damage. That's why massed iPhones are the preferred armor for military equipment, right?
As for being "locked in" to a broken phone, I'm gonna try crashing my car to get out of making payments on it. That'll work, I assume?
I'll echo scotts thoughts, I don't recall ever seeing Apple Computer saying its stuff was indestructible. Having seen what one of my colleagues puts his through I'd have to say at the very least its darn tough. Personally it's way too much phone for my needs but it pretty clearly covers the needs of quite a large number or people.
There is no 32 Gig iPhone you nitwit.
At first you start smoking, but before you know it, you start using iphones.
Me: Former Luddite now a 3-week iPhone 16Gig owner and user. It is interactive and holds a lot of functions under one roof, which I have used simultaneously to sincere pleasure, but the battery does not last long (5-6 hours depending on wi-fi and 3G use). Also, some of the settings are inflexible. No cut-and-paste function. The rubber armor after-market protective case and crystal screen cover must protect the phone, I assume. Having babied it and not dropped, drop-kicked, punted, thrown or boiled it, I can't say how rugged it is or is not. But so far it is functioning OK. And it was cheaper than my friend's $600 phone that is less user friendly. I'll report back if anything bad happens.