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He lost me with this line "In my analysis I will not take into consideration features such as phone calls and Internet access since Hipster PDA’s are not yet used in this fashion."
Its a cellphone, you use it to make phone calls. He also completely overlooked the music and video playing aspects of the iPhone.
And he didn't account for the utter wankery that is the Hipster PDA. Its a notepad.
Yeah, ultimately that was sorta weak. I was thinking of writing my own version of this and that googled to the surface. I was just thinking about how I'll write down future google searches on scraps of paper when I'm offline. It's scary how much google has invaded my thinking.
"you can’t customize the color of your iPhone at will using a crayon or marker."
I agree that iPhones may be utter wankery as well. But they're not pretending to be cool, like a Hipster PDA.
Besides, something as pretty and slick as the iPhone can't be all bad. And, this is the kicker, porn on the iPhone totally kicks the tail off of porn on a Hipster PDA.
I notice that lately I'm annoyed by pretty much everthing with the word Hipster attached to it. Ten bucks says this this guy's got a cellphone and a laptop, but somehow he's too cool to own an iPhone.