Apple’s iPhone is “a babe magnet. That alone makes it the best $600 I’ve ever wasted on a totally unnecessary discretionary purchase. I’m sure it has the same effect on men that it has on women, but I haven’t been devoting much attention to what my new gadget does to dudes,” Cliff Mason writes for TheStreet.com.
“Anyone who’s seen the Cramer/Mason Chronicles, my series of videos with Jim Cramer (who, not so coincidentally, is my uncle — a fact I disclose every time I write anything) about financial advice for people in their 20s, knows that hell will freeze over before I’m considered a ladies man. I look ridiculous, and my charm is, shall we say, subtle. That no longer matters now that I have an iPhone,” Mason writes.
“I could tell you all about how adequate AT&T’s Edge network is for Internet connectivity, or what a joy the virtual keyboard is to use, but if you’ve read this far you’d probably prefer to read about what happened when I pulled out my iPhone in the J. Crew near my apartment last week,” Mason writes.
MacDailyNews Note: In the full article, Mason recounts instances of the “babe magnet” in action.
Mason continues, “People compare the price of the iPhone to the much lower price of a BlackBerry or a Treo and conclude that the $600 price tag is way too expensive. They’re using the wrong comparison. We should be comparing the iPhone with plastic surgery… No one ever stared at my BlackBerry and salivated, which is the standard response when I whip out my iPhone. Instead, my friends told me I looked like a tool until I finally stopped wearing the thing.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Kevin” for the heads up.]
Oh please! This only proves you are stupid enough to give Apple $3000 to use a cell phone. I’m not sure what kind of women would be impressed that you have no idea how to manage your budget. This is nothing but a toy for either the ultra-rich or those willing to throw away a down payment on a car for this toy cell phone. Lets wait for the novelty to wear off and see what people think of their phone in six months.
Then the fun starts when consumers want access to their corporate networks and find out they are out of luck. Then they get stuck with a $175 fee to get out of their contract – ouch!
Just a toy from Apple – nothing to see here – move along.
Don’t feed the troll.
When you figure, based on sales estimates that between 1 in 150 to 1 in 300 men/women/children in the US has an iPhone already, it will not be long before the hot guy, with the expensive car, and the iPhone will edge you out again from the hot babes
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if the end result is endless sex with a slender sexy fun loving Swedish babe, its bought (no lard arse American women)
That will make the stock rise – and other things too.
Hey Mac Realist… I think YOU should move along… back to the woods. Then you don’t have to pay for anything and you can eat bark — for free!
Apple charges $600 bucks for a top-of-the-line never-before-created device that is five years ahead of itself and you complain it’s too expensive? It’s a bit more than a Blackberry unsubsidised. Pull your head out of your….
On top of that, it’s normal to pay for a monthly service plan when you get a cell phone. You might not be aware of that. So that $3000 you quote – which is quite high if you ask me – is part of the game… AT&T’s plans are actually pretty competitive… anyone will tell you that.
Go back to your bridge, my friend.
I’m using mine to talk to women. It works. Seriously. It’s the perfect conversation starter. “Hey, have you got your iPhone yet?” Pull it out and watch the magic work for you. Nothing like a hot woman touching your thing.
“Oh, I want one”, they all coo as they timidly touch it. Just help them out a little. Show them what it does. What you do after that is up to you. You’re milage may vary.
The blah blah blah, you can’t gain access to your corporate network. Dude many already use MacOS based systems on their corporate networks. Seeing as how the iPhone supports VPN I have no problem access or corporate resources, including web based corporate directory, and web based calendaring system, as we have too many Windows, MacOS and Linux users within the corporation. Sorry not everyone in every corporation is a office droid. Many corporations have engineers, graphic artists, web development groups, video production departments that are more *nix/OS X based than Windows based…. Just because you work (maybe, you do work right?) at a sucky corporation that does not allow employees to use the tools best designed for their specific needs or tasks is just sad.
Back under your bridge troll.
Heh, I didn’t do so bad back in the day when I was on my own and in my 20s, but I must say, I’ve never had the kind of moment I had the other night at a friend’s birthday party: someone was talking about the iPhone, and I said, “hey, I’ve got one here.” No sooner do I say that than 5 very attractive young women swarm around me, jockying for position. Was nice…. If only I were still in my 20s and single!
MW: member…. I think I’ll leave that one alone
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That’s all I need is a talking pig.
Twisted Mac Freak, you ARE a talking pig.
“Oh please! This only proves you are stupid enough to give Apple $3000 to use a cell phone. I’m not sure what kind of women would be impressed that you have no idea how to manage your budget.”
Sounds like sour grapes to me.
Get a new job if you can’t afford it Fry Guy.
Besides you aren’t giving APPLE $3000 (and it’s NOT $3000 anyway) and its not like you wouldnt have a cellphone contract anyway you tool.
FYI some of us are already on our corporate networks with the iPhone. pwned!
BTSOI: That’s actually pretty funny coming from you.
So far I’ve had had three *guys* start conversations with me (complete strangers) because of my iPhone. Since I’m not gay, that isn’t the desired effect. But I’ll keep whipping it out every chance I get–the iPhone that is.
I can hear the girls now, “Is that an iPhone in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?”
@Object-X:
I let one gal touch and feel my iPhone the other day and after she retuned it to me, I asked if was good for her too!
but it won’t work on C1…she already has one…darn 🙁
Hey TMF…
What does BTSOI and a hemorrhoid have in common?
You are a fool. Yes the iPhone seems expensive. But what a great product. So much better than anything else out there. It will only get better and probably less expensive. If you can’t afford one or don’t like the product or service agreement don’t buy one. Don’t criticize other people though who can afford one and enjoy it. You sound very jealous.
Actually, we’re talking about $1500 for one year including activation fee. My personal story is that I’ve already used the iPhone in my side career in such a way as to cause it to pay for that one year just within the last week. So how, possibly, could this simply be an overpriced toy phone?
And, in my other job, I’m on the corporate network.
PS: I’m not ultra-rich, and I prefer to pay cash for a gently used car. Since a new car — which requires that $3000 down payment — loses a significant portion of its sticker price value once driven off the lot, I’d say that you’d have to be ultra-rich or willing to flush a good chunk of money to rationalize buying a new car. Not to mention the interest …
Your logic is … well, not logic at all.
What ever happened to Trolls’r’us we need to send a certain Troll a one way ticket to the rock it crawled from under!
How many times will we read “$2,000 phone” or “$3,000” phone. As a Cingular/ATT customer, I was paying $39.95 per month for 600 or so minutes, plus rollovers, which I accrue every month. My so called data plan was $10 per month. I bought the iPhone and went up to $20 a month for unlimited data. Nothing else changed. I’m paying the same thing for phone service I already was paying, plus $10 for real internet connectivity. Oh yeah, I got an iPod as well, which has four times as much memory as my 1st gen Nano. These liars are making me thirsty, er, crazy!
“Yes the iPhone seems expensive. But what a great product.”
Hahahaha yeah, these people just don’t get it…
I just bought a new iCar… It was $150,000 but it runs 100% autopilot. It’s revolutionary. Just get in and say where you want to go and it takes you there!!!
Oh yeah, and it doesn’t come with a radio, heater, air conditioner, on interior lights, but who needs those!!! Oh and you can only use Apple Gasoline in it too (it costs $9 a gallon but it’s high quality) and you also can only use Apple tires which cost $2000 a set)….
Some People just don’t understand.
Buster: Location?
Enough already with the damn car references PC and Mac trolls.
Is there a Troll catcher on site? Your services are in urgent need!
Thank God for people like Realist. The voice of reason! I’m enlightened and am repenting for my past.
Thank you, Realist! You are SO RIGHT! You’re my new hero!
Feel better? Is that what you needed to hear? Good. Now go take your nap.
It’s true. When I see an iPhone, I am overcome with lust. I simply cannot control myself.
My GOD.
Set it on vibrate.
-b
@ newton
“but it won’t work on C1…she already has one…darn :(“
Ha! Your powers are useless against me!
but they’re… so… pretty….
Come on, MDN, post that All Time High thread… =)
Some thoughts after reading the above:
1. Since we all want to get laid, get an iPhone. (This will be a great addition to the justification for a sale.) I rest my case.
2. If I read one more “the iPhone actually costs $2-$3,000 per year” line, I will hurl chunks. Face it: this is nothing but FUD talking points from Verizon, Sprint, Nokia, Motorola, RIM/Blackberry, Microsoft, et al. The truth is, the same can be said of the competing handset makers and cellular providers.
3. Mac Realist: It’s sad. If you had an iPhone, you would actually have a sex life. Sorry, pal.
4. All of you have given a wide variety of points here. But none of you have asked the most important question: Will it blend?
Yep, it must be Friday.
I just switched from sprint. I had a blackberry that I paid 400 bucks for and paid 110 dollars a month for 500 minutes, blackberry data service and 500 text messages. Now I pay 60 bucks a month and for the same and only get 200 text messages. Do the math, I did. I my switch will pay for my iphone, and save me hundreds.
@ Gigilo Joe
Actually, we dealt with #4 a few days ago.
Answer: Yes. But I have another!
For years I have been walking up to hot women and asking, “Would you like to see my multi-touch device”.
I like having a phone ringing in my pants pocket. That way I can turn to the woman next to me and say, “I think it’s for you.”
Seriously…
Everyone read this article right now:
Hidden Dimensions – Apple is Outsmarting the iPhone’s Competition
-c
Ah hell, damn links. Copy and paste this:
http://www.investorvillage.com/smbd.asp?mb=445&mn=75373&pt=msg&mid=2548510
“”but it won’t work on C1…she already has one…darn :(“
All I know is the first email I got on my iPhone was from a babe!
MDN word is “peace” as in “peace out.”
Nice article C1, especially this quote…
“Those who are critical of the iPhone in its current incarnation are in the same state of mind that Rio was when Apple came out with the original iPod in October 2001.”
MDN word is price, as in there will be a price to be paid for those companies that don’t understand the global shift that is taking place in the cell phone industry.
Great Article C1
I would love to see some iPhone adds with Star-trek people, maybe Captain Picard
I overheard the following conversation between an iPhone owner and a babe:
iPhone: “Just swipe your fingertip gently across it. No, no, across the bottom, a little more firmly . . . Aah! Now it’s ready for use.”
Babe: “Ooh! Wow! It’s so fine to the touch! But how do I make the … (indecipherable) bigger?”
iPhone: “Just put your thumb and index finger and spread them apart! Yup, yup! That’s it!”
Babe: “Ooh! That’s a really huge close-up. I can see every detail, every color! Nice hair (giggles). Let’s see what happens if I try to push it up! Oops, no. That didn’t work! It just bounced back down!”
iPhone: “You have to do it sideways!”
Babe: “Mmmm! It’s also so smooth to the touch. And it’s getting warmer!”
iPhone: “You think this is big? Just turn it sideways! It looks gorgeous!!”
Babe: “Wow! Now I could watch it the whole day! Do you have another one?”
iPhone: “Not right now. But go ahead and use it for as long as you want! It won’t run out of juice for hours!”
Then my bus came along, and I was off . . .
So the iPhone is a babe magnet. Leech-chicks will attach to anything.
The real question is will it regularly get you LAID?? By hotties too; the ugly easy ones don’t count.
Oh and how many women can dial it from inside their….?
From here on out the jokes just write themselves, folks.
Note to Apple: iPhone Safari needs auto-fill!
Sir Jonathan Is So Sexy Thing!
MDN Magic Word: Thing
“All I know is the first email I got on my iPhone was from a babe!”
Flattery will get you a long, long way, my friend. ^.^
That realist guy must have a lot of time on his hands. Time for him to get a job….
Excellent article ChrissyOne! Thank you!
Um, er, ah, so what do us faithful married guys do, get a Zune so we can’t be tempted?
“if the end result is endless sex with a slender sexy fun loving Swedish babe, its bought (no lard arse American women)”
Yes, a nerdy computer geek gadget is going to make you sexy.
Hot women will overlook your pale pasty nerd skin, complete lack of personality and social skills, the fact that you still live with your mother, and your underdeveloped physique. Tell us all how that works out for you.
Hot women will overlook your pale pasty nerd skin, complete lack of personality and social skills, the fact that you still live with your mother, and your underdeveloped physique. Tell us all how that works out for you.
Show enough money and women will overlook anything.
Hell even the freak-of-freaks Ballmer managed to get hitched and have kids (OMG indeed). So anything is possible…
“Show enough money and women will overlook anything.”
I’m thinking it’ll take you more than a $599 phone to overcome the aforementioned defects.