On 6/12/2010 1:53 PM, clipka wrote:
> Am 12.06.2010 19:31, schrieb Orchid XP v8:
>
>>>> And since I don't own or want to own an iPhone, why would I know about
>>>> this?
>>>
>>> Maybe by keeping your eyes and ears open to what's going on around you?
>>
>> I don't own an iPhone, I've never (knowingly) met anybody else who owns
>> an iPhone. (I was under the impression that it's extortionately
>> expsensive due to how shiny it is.) And I don't watch TV (probably the
>> only place it's advertised), so... why would I know much about it?
>> (Other than having heard that it exists, anyway.)
>
> I don't own an iPhone either, I've never knowingly met anybody else who
> owns one either until yesterday (and I didn't see the guy use the
> touchscreen), I don't even own a TV set, and only very rarely do I turn
> on the radio. Still I've heard of its touchscreen capabilities.

If you're around any technology at all, you'd have to be living under a 
rock not to know ;)

> Computer magazines?
>
> Searching through the internerds because you're curious what's so
> special about the iPhone that everybody's talking about it?

Sure, yeah... or just being 10 ft from anything online that is tech.

> Leaving that aside, the iPhone is not the first consumer device to come
> with a touchscreen - PDAs have been featuring touchscreens at least
> since 2002.

What is groundbreaking about the iphone is it's multi-touch ability.

-- 
~Mike

Post a reply to this message