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Allowing an iPhone to bring you some joy is okay, but allowing it to make you deeply upset is stupid.

• MikeCapone 16y ago
  It kinds of go together, in my opinion. If something can bring you a lot of joy, by not working it can take that joy away, making you upset. I'm not saying that guy expressed himself correctly, but I can understand why he would be upset at the idea that Apple and Jobs doesn't seem to think this problem is real and needs a fix.
  • probablyrobots 16y ago
    Steve's comment makes sense from his buddhist perspective: Life is suffering and suffering comes from attachment. He clearly wants iphone owners who are attached to their phones to suffer :)
    • pyre 16y ago
      He was pretty attached to that missing iPhone4 prototype though...
• jrockway 16y ago
  I buy a lot of gadgets, so I'm used to being upset when I realize my $600 toy is not going to be much use to me. But most people do not go through the cycle as often, and they think that buying a product means it's going to work as advertised and not give them problems because they hold it wrong. The fact that the phone loses reception is irrelevant; the disappointment comes in knowing that you have a flawed half-baked product, and that there will never be one that works. Next year, there will be another iPhone, but it will be flawed in some way too. Now Apple isn't as cool as you thought. Now you aren't as cool as you thought. Now the Universe isn't as cool as you thought. An angry letter seems like a pretty rational response if it means that you can still feel meaning in your life.