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[sho-dan]

This is too funny, Jimmy Kimmel interviews people on the street about the New iPhone 5 in his hands which is actually a iPhone 4s hehheh
http://news.cnet.com...4s-is-iphone-5/
ps. Looks like the Hulk lost some weight haha

[daledoc1]

ROTFL.

Yes, millions of people will buy the thing -- the major new feature of which is the requirement that one must now purchase a $30 adapter -- for no real reason.

On the flip side, though, I saw several news reports last week reporting that sales (phone + all the hardware/software/contracts/etc) could actually boost the entire GDP of the US by 0.25-0.50 % points in the next quarter.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-500395_162-57511984/will-the-iphone-5-boost-u.s-gdp/

So, I say, "go for it, folks!".

[goldhound]

It brings to mind the days when, if a school kid did not have Nike or Adidas shoes their social life was kaput. Soooo many years of parents buying love........

[daledoc1]

goldhound, on 16 September 2012 - 01:43 PM, said:

It brings to mind the days when, if a school kid did not have Nike or Adidas shoes their social life was kaput. Soooo many years of parents buying love........

Good point!

Humor aside...
Sadly, this still happens all the time.
Even school uniforms haven't done much to solve it.
For some kids/families, there's nothing funny about it, either.
Sigh.

iPhone-mania is just a grown-up version of intense peer pressure - JMHO, of course .

[goldhound]

I know i sound ancient but, it was generally solved when i was a kid (the stoneage wasn't such a bad time ) by the opportunity to do some actual work outside of your normal and absolute chores, in order to purchase something that elevated your status among peers.
An entire summer of heavy physical work on the ranch, which i enjoyed, ended in my uncle giving me a 20 dollar bill, a fortune to a kid in 1958. I actually tried to refuse as i knew they could ill afford it but they reminded me what a hired farm hand would have cost them. and even though i perhaps did only half the work, i still cost less than 10% of that wage.
That money bought me school clothes that were socially a big cut above what i would have gotten. There was even a few dollars left to blow on candy or at the soda shop.

Sorry folks, back on topic.
I believe that the new phones and tablets are amazing and if i were the right age to actually use or need i would be all over them.
Our once and only venture into Apple products was a few months back when my wife bought an ipad. We were naive, upon opening and trying to set it up we were confronted with what appeared to be necessary, providing a credit card number. I was aghast!
Then we learned that there was a work around but we both agreed that after using only windows based PC's for years and never being pushed to spend money to set them up for normal function......it was going back to the store and never again!

[fivealive]

Seagull, on 16 September 2012 - 04:18 PM, said:

This is great!

@goldhound I agree 100%. When I was in High School, alot of the jocks always wore Nike or Aeropostale, and I just wore random clothes I got from here and there like a shirt with Super Mario on it or something and I used to get picked on all the time.

Apparently if you didn't wear name brand clothes or shoes you were poor and stupid. The thing is though, I am not going to school or anywhere for that matter to impress anyone, I am just being me, so being yourself > wearing fancy clothes.

i agreed i never saw the point in spending 300 on a pair of sneakers when i could use that money and get probly a dozen out fits our more that would last alot longer then those shoes. hell my shoes i generally pay 15 to 30 for and they last anyware from 3 to 4 years

[Firefox]

LOL, I love the stuff Jimmy Kemmel does....