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Honestly, you know what the difference was? Sex appeal. Pure and simple. When iPhone came out, I had the flashiest PDA available. It had WiFi and I could do

Honestly, you know what the difference was? Sex appeal. Pure and simple. When iPhone came out, I had the flashiest PDA available. It had WiFi and I could do phone calls over VoIP and watch movies. But man I dropped that thing like a J2EE Enterprise Hooker when the iPhone came out. I mean it's sleek and it's gorgeous and the fracking menus have momentum! Are you kidding?! Even the texture feels good, the glass plate is smooth. If ever there was a piece of tech that could get you laid, this was it. That's why I got an iPhone. The fact that it had all those cool technical abilities and a great free SDK is just how I rationalized it to myself later.

nailer 17y ago
I lost functionality when moving from a 3G Nokia N95 and a webkit browser to an iPhone with 2G only and a much less reliable webkit browser. I was still happy - the iPhone indeed had sex appeal.
tjogin 17y ago
I think I agree with what you're saying, I just have a really hard time describing hardware or software as being "sexy". I'd just say that the iPhone, unlike all of its predecessors, simply didn't suck. It was a joy to use it. Maybe we mean the same thing. Certainly, I didn't expect people to want to fuck me because I had one.
- pohl 17y ago
  There's a fundamental problem with the concept of 'cool' that causes blast-damage to the semantics of words around it. Long ago, the word 'awesome' actually described something that inspired a sense of awe. Now it's something people say when someone offers them a can of cold, unsolicited soda. 'Wicked' once meant 'evil'. Now a mildy impressive not-even-very-extreme-sports move, like a skateboard grind on a concrete curb is 'wicked'. The word 'sweet' once referred to something that contained sugar. Now an expensive car is a 'sweet ride'. In days gone by, one had to advocate complete and total social reform in order to be 'radical'. Later, all one needed was acid-washed denim and poofy bangs. Alas, sex hasn't been an essential part of sexy for a long, long time.
  - tjogin 17y ago
    True enough, but the post to which I replied didn't just use the word "sex appeal" in a to me alien way, he also mentioned that this device would "get him laid". Jokingly, of course, but I'm still unsure we even mean the same thing. If he simply meant that the iPhone was "awesome" by the definition you just mentioned, then I'm in agreement, but if he meant that he liked the device because of the reactions he thought he'd get from his surrounding due to having one, then we do not.
    - caffeine 17y ago
      I mean both, actually. Not only did it have a fundamentally appealing design in every detail, but it was also (in the early days) a great opener! "Ooooooo, is that the eye-Phone? Can I touch it? OMG, this ball-tilt game is awesome!" ;)
      - pohl 17y ago
        So true...it's the perfect platform for Mystery's Photo Routine, because it encourages the use of pinch-to-zoom and stipe-to-pan - you're that much closer to kino escalation. ;-)

nailer 17y ago

I lost functionality when moving from a 3G Nokia N95 and a webkit browser to an iPhone with 2G only and a much less reliable webkit browser. I was still happy - the iPhone indeed had sex appeal.

tjogin 17y ago

I think I agree with what you're saying, I just have a really hard time describing hardware or software as being "sexy". I'd just say that the iPhone, unlike all of its predecessors, simply didn't suck. It was a joy to use it. Maybe we mean the same thing. Certainly, I didn't expect people to want to fuck me because I had one.

pohl 17y ago
There's a fundamental problem with the concept of 'cool' that causes blast-damage to the semantics of words around it. Long ago, the word 'awesome' actually described something that inspired a sense of awe. Now it's something people say when someone offers them a can of cold, unsolicited soda. 'Wicked' once meant 'evil'. Now a mildy impressive not-even-very-extreme-sports move, like a skateboard grind on a concrete curb is 'wicked'. The word 'sweet' once referred to something that contained sugar. Now an expensive car is a 'sweet ride'. In days gone by, one had to advocate complete and total social reform in order to be 'radical'. Later, all one needed was acid-washed denim and poofy bangs. Alas, sex hasn't been an essential part of sexy for a long, long time.
- tjogin 17y ago
  True enough, but the post to which I replied didn't just use the word "sex appeal" in a to me alien way, he also mentioned that this device would "get him laid". Jokingly, of course, but I'm still unsure we even mean the same thing. If he simply meant that the iPhone was "awesome" by the definition you just mentioned, then I'm in agreement, but if he meant that he liked the device because of the reactions he thought he'd get from his surrounding due to having one, then we do not.
  - caffeine 17y ago
    I mean both, actually. Not only did it have a fundamentally appealing design in every detail, but it was also (in the early days) a great opener! "Ooooooo, is that the eye-Phone? Can I touch it? OMG, this ball-tilt game is awesome!" ;)
    - pohl 17y ago
      So true...it's the perfect platform for Mystery's Photo Routine, because it encourages the use of pinch-to-zoom and stipe-to-pan - you're that much closer to kino escalation. ;-)