Dear Sir or Madam,
I wish to inform you I no longer give a shit about the iPhone. At all.
I don’t want to have to read yet another Pulitzer Prize attempt in describing the iPhone, that EDGE isn’t all bad (hint, it is) that we should all go out and buy one, that it’s God’s gift to mankind and we should all bow down to Jobs for such a great device.
Is it cool? Yes. Do we really, honestly, need thousands of bloggers all gushing over the device? No.
I don’t subscribe to ~130 (and counting) blog RSS feeds to read about the fucking iPhone. Enough already.
Leave the reports to the established players such as ars, anandtech and the oft-maligned engadget who do this shit every day. I don’t want to read 100 different personal reviews of the iPhone, or of how you stood in 23 inches of snow, in bare feet, walking uphill both ways to buy a mobile device.
Do everyone a favour - if you have a blog, have just bought an iPhone and think we want to hear all about it, guess what? We don’t! If you tell me all about your new toy, despite it being a topic well-and-truly blogged to death, I will ignore you. If you persist in giving a blow-by-blow run-down of just how fucking cool you are for standing in line for 36 hours straight to buy a mobile phone.. I will un-subscribe from your blog and likely never read anything you say again. Ever.
Is that harsh? You better fucking believe it. It’s a mobile device. It runs OSX and it’s pretty cool. That’s it. No more needs be said.
Thanks for reading.
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Brendan Borlase is a Systems and Network Administrator living in Adelaide, Australia, having lived, worked and breathed Information Technology for over 12 years. Learn more.
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Jul 2nd, 2007 at 6:00 am
You’d love one, you know you would! :-P
Jul 2nd, 2007 at 6:36 pm
me? want one?
*mumble* yes, yes I would..