Walking Shadow, your use of excessive obscenity (combined with the fact that you misread the post you were replying to) make you sound extremely ignorant. If you have an actual point, try to phrase it more intelligently.
Let's dissect:
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Originally Posted by Walking Shadow
Ok, even if my numbers are off, I was going by an article I read in Slate.com a while back. You don't include taxes, which is kind of unfair, so for arguments sake lets say that you go with the $1974 pretax number and add on another $50 in taxes for a total of $2025.
For a fucking phone.
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And a Ipod. And portable video player. And a wireless email client. And camera. And web terminal.
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I could give a fuck that it has internet access and you can download shit to it or watch vids or take pictures.
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So you're saying you aren't in the target market? You could have phrased it more calmly.
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Why anyone would want to watch ANYTHING on a vid screen that's less then 4 inches wide is insanely stupid.
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I watch movies and shows on the plane on my PSP all the time...it's screen is pretty comparable. Have you tried it?
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But looking at it from another side, I could pay $25 a month for basic phone service, a landline, which I could use to access the internet, which might run me another $9 a month. That gives me a total of $816 a year and gives me $1209 which I can go spend on porn star escorts.
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Since you didn't include tax, I figure we'll compare apples to apples (no pun intended). Also, you didn't include dialup internet service, to access your land line, so we'll call that another $10 a month before tax. That makes the price difference $1056. To fully replace an iphone, with everything you'd need except internet connectivity, you'd also need a camera ($100) an MP3 player ($150) and a portable DVD player ($100), so that brings your "porn star escort" fund down to $353 a year. Good luck with that.
Even all of this is a poor comparison, because you are ignoring one of the primary features, the wireless web surfing, which you address here:
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Plus, quite frankly, being THAT connected to the Internet and such is deeply, deeply disturbing on several levels. Let's be seriosu, how fucking pathetic are you if you have to check your fucking email every 15 minutes all day long.
NO ONE is that important, not even President Bush.
Total waste of money.
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Reasons to be so fucking pathetic you have to check your fucking email or go online every 15 minutes:
1. Checking flight times from the hotel
2. Checking online auctions
3. Getting directions in cities you aren't familiar with
4. Approving pictures from photoshoots while you are meeting with another vendor
5. Snapping, annotating, and emailing quick pictures from the field to the home office, and getting their emailed responses
These are all things I would have used an iphone for in the last two weeks.
And yes, guccilvr's reason is also an excellent one. Blackberry's may still be slightly more practicaly, but an iphone is definitely a viable choice for a professional who needs to stay connected. In some client-centric industries, the image boost alone from having the latest technology is worth the $350 a year you say could be spent with prostitutes.