I was just waiting for the day that someone would stick gold plates up an iPhone. And today is the day, I guess. The 24 carat gold casing by a UK company called Goldstriker is striking it gold with the iPhone. Decadence will be the fall of men. Someday but not today. Today you will be able to choose between a 16gig iPhone fully gold plated for GBP899 or you can go for the semi plated one for GBP599.
At first, I thought this product is a joke - cos the ad looked and sounded like one - but it’s not a joke. iPhree is very real, mind you.
Literally. You can now buy an iPhone coated completely out of Platinum - which incidentally is my favorite metal. Ahem. Anyway, the purpose of this Platinum iPhone is purely for decadence. And it is two weeks before it is the time to be jolly, traa la la la la la la la la….so, anyone keen on forking up $2230 for a platinum coated iPhone?
Nevermind that it will scratch, it will still work anyway. Pffttt…
This is one stocking stuffer you will want to think for a longg time before buying. Fo’shure.
Can you say Oops with big O’s?? LOL! I saw this at Gizmodo and thought that EVERYONE should see this. It’s hilarious. Now you can definitely call out MAC fans on how Windows actually RULES the world :D The picture is a Windows XP load page captured at an AT&T store, actually. But it’s still hilarious when you have Windows XP loading on an iPhone stand :P
I still love my iPod Mini though.
Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone not too long ago to the mass consumerism in 2001 and expected a big bang to come out of it. It did, it drove throngs of people to its premier and guess what, many bought the iPhone despite it being flawed and filled with unnecessary functions that we will probably never use unless we’re Steve Jobs. I mean $80/month to get the phone going is quite stiff, no doubt there may be unlimited internet access but really…who really “surf” the net on their phone even though their phone’s screen is as big as the phone itself?
I am pseudo-bashing the iPhone but I still think it looks pretty sexy, let me get that out first. The purpose of this post is not about iPhone bashing, it’s about Steve Jobs being not happy with 50million sets sold over the past 5 years. 50million is a big number but over five years? The Moto Razr sold 50million in less than 2 years.
Now you can see why Jobs’ unhappy? He hasn’t beaten any record, just like his expensive macs (as they don’t exactly vary that highly in quality from a good PC except in pricing - don’t kill me, i got this info from the horse’s mouth). Razr sold 50 million in 2 years and iPhone sold 50million in 5 years…Apple sure has a long way more to go in the phone industry.
Hmm… i have a suspicious thought that the Apple Community is going to buy two each starting from today after reading this post. You know how it’s leader is unhappy they will do whatever his whims and fancies are? :P
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