I’M DISAPPOINTED, MR. JOBS

I came back from a 12 day vacation in Mexico, high fever, congested, and really cannot function. Though I was tired and a little delirious, I made all attempts to get to an apple store because the day the iPhone was released was part of the 12 days I’m in Mexico. I was disappointed to find that the closest apple store from JFK closed at 8pm on a Saturday! Ticked off and sick, I tried to get over the fact that I have to suffer one more day without my most desired gadget. So the next day I get up, stuffed up, pounding pain in both ears, and swallowing was more painful than ramming chopsticks in my ear drums, I got dressed and woke up my trusty room mate who shares the same desire for the iPhone, but at the time did not have the funds for one. He was happy to just go to the store, and vicariously live through me as I purchased this new Apple product.

I get to the store and despite what has been reported about long lines and long waits, I just found a bunch of people oogling the product, rather than buying one. They are smart. I spent 89 cents more on the iPhone than my monthly rent. I felt kind of bad, but hey, I gotta have it. Like I posted back in January, “I want an iPhone.” My roommate have warned me about some of the things lacking on the phone but I chose to ignore them and reminded him that he is talking to a girl that owns 7 iPods because I just had to get each new generation that comes out. I own, the second generation, the first generation video, a mini, a nano, and the shuffle. I figured that if apple ever comes out with the second generation iPhone, I’m sure I will get that as well. So anyways, at the time, owning the iPod outshined practicality.

So I got the iPhone. I am still sick and now even more ticked. I don’t know about you, but upon getting a brand spanking new cellphone, one of the first things I do is check out the ringtones. The apple is an iPod–Phone… I figured this would mean it would have some good ringtones. Well it doesnt. I spent over $634 dollars on a huge, heavy, phone that goes online. I could do this on a laptop. When I thought that I was upgrading from a sony ericsson to an iPhone, I felt like I signed up for a verizon contract (blocking any type of file transfers from other phones) with a phone that could do the same stuff a phone back in say 2003 could… This phone can’t even take videos! Oh what am I gonna do with 8 gigs of space if I can’t take video, record music, or even open an mp3 file I sent to my email. I guess the iPhone isn’t really for me….it’s more for people who has never had a sony ericsson walkman or a Nokia6126, or even the razr! Don’t even get me started on the razr. That phone has next to nothing space-wise if compared to the iPhone, but it can receive and send files, take video, record audio, and all of these can be shared!!!

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