Sanjay Chandra
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This thread is great. Some comedy gold moments reading through.
Couple of mornings ago on the train to work im sat down with my 8x reading through my people feed catching up on everything from overnight. Got a guy next to me with an iphone4 or 4s (cant tell the difference :wink Conversation went like this.
Guy "Hey is that the new HTC One phone"
Me " Nah Had this about 4 months"
Guy " Oh looks pretty new"
30 sec pause
Guy "What app is that your running looks pretty sweet having all your feeds in one list"
Me "its not an app its my people hub its part of the OS"
Guy "oh so that's that new facebook skin then"
Me "sorry I think your confusing this phone with android, this is a windows 8 phone"
Guy "ah that explains it then windows 8 has no apps right"
Me "Not true I have all the apps I need"
Guy "That's not what I heard you've not got instagram"
Me "Nope no instagram"
Guy "haha sucks to be you"
Me "Dude look at me, Do I look like the kind of person that would take pictures of my food or some random crap add a filter to it then post it up for the world to see"
Guy "No probably not"
2 minutes uninterrupted
Guy "So that phones pretty heavy right you look like you go to the gym guess you need to with that phone"
Me "No that would be the nokia 920 which actually weighs the same as your iphone4 in the otterbox case you've got it in"
Guy "That's not what I heard"
Me "I think its probably best you don't listen to everything you hear. You might not sound like an ***** more often"
Guy "Hey man your the ***** with the phone with no apps"
Me "Indeed"
Uninterrupted for about 5 mins. By this time ive finished with my people feed and am now doing a quick bit of work on a spreadsheet in excel.
Guy "Hey ive got an app for excel on my phone"
Me "This isn't an app its part of the OS, Office is built into the phone. I haven't got any apps remember"
Guy "Looks pretty hard to work on though that small"
Me "How do you manage with a smaller screen than me then"
Guy "Oh I don't use excel on my phone ive just got the app"
Me "Guess I'm still the ***** then"
Guy "you said it"
Uninterrupted for a couple of minutes finish what im doing and flick back to my home screen.
The guy next to me is messaging his friend and these were his exact words.
"Sat next to an ***** on the train with a windows phone. Just completely owned him with my iphone"
It does make me wonder how these people actually manage to make it through a day.
I am an Apple fan especially love their hardware design and simplicity , support and service but these kind of users make me feel bad
Here's an incident :
3 Years back :
He had symbian device , Androids weren't popular and I had iPod Touch running iOS. (EDIT : an a nokia feature phone too)
Him : Why u got an iPod Touch instead u could have gotten a decent phone
Me : Nah I don't want symbian (remember N97 ?)
I showed him lots of apps and even angry birds app which arrived newly (no other platform had it back then) and he was impressed and even touch screen he liked it better than others.
Him : Well , Its a decent device but expensive (I will be honest , back at that time , it was the best device with apps and games after 3GS but then lot of devices arrived by the time iPhone 4 came into the market)
Present :
We met after long gap and then after talking about things and getting each other updated about things , I finally said that I am going to buy first smartphone
Him : Get an iPhone , its so nice and probably the best (The same guy who didn't like iOS 3 years back)
Me : I wanted to go for Note 2 or Lumia 920
Him : They are waste , All x,y,z etc friends (i don't want to mention any names) are having iPhones , Android devies are cheap plastic , and didn't like apps/games And WP has no decent apps/games
Me : Well , I used iOS 2 years more than you did (and we both smiled) I also have iPad 3rd gen , which is newer than the iPhone 4S you have , So I made my decision after having good thought and don't want iOS for a phone.Most probably going to get Lumia , Already upgraded to Windows 8 on desktop as well.
Him : iPhone gives royal look and amazing feel , you have lot of accessories to it , Why hesitation to get an iPhone ?
Me : If I want an iPhone , I need 64 GB and it costs like $1200 to get one , I can adjust with 32GB if situation is very tight but not going to get anything less than 32 GB , So I need to spend $1000 atleast minimum.
Him : Come on , You can purchase an iPhone 5 , I know price is not a big deal for you.
Me : We got iPad 64GB Cellular in home because everyone use it not just me and it had gestures but iPhone has home button problems , lot of people who had iPhone for 2 years are facing home button problems and spending more money to fix the button and why get such a device which has limited storage , non removable battery and expensive one ? I heard black iPhone has Paint issues (Build quality is ****)
Him : Well , Its your wish but i recommend u to get a 4S or iPhone 5.
After 3 years , he probably going to get a WP and ditch iOS and realize it ^^ (He is always a slow adaptor)