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.
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