The iPhone Lover/Hater

| Tags: my-life, iphone, train

It’s Monday and I enter the train home after a day full of work. The train is well filled but I get a seat between a woman browsing on her Samsung smartphone and some guy I ignore at first.

I pull my iPhone from a pocket of my Jeans as the guy besides me starts talking: “Ahh, an iPhone 5. Nice! It’s twice as fast as the iPhone 4S”.

I try to ignore him and open Tweetbot to check my Twitter timeline. As I’ve been pairing with a colleague on a project the whole day I haven’t looked at Twitter for the last 9 hours and there are 50 new tweets.

The guy goes on: “It’s rectangular, rather flat, has rounded corners and does what it’s meant to do.”

Oh dear, where does he get something like that from. I throw a sideways glance at him. Could be from an ad agency, at least he talks that way.

Most of the new Twitter posts are boring. A post from someone reporting about his 10 km run. I’ve muted Runkeeper and some other running related clients and hashtags, but from time to time some post of that kind still filters through. There’s also some new consultancy wisdom tweeted and retweeted by my colleagues. No funny posts and nothing really exciting.

“Movies look great on the iPhone 5.”

Really? I open Riposte and check out App.net. That’s a much more nerdy timeline and not as crowded as Twitter.

“But the battery sucks. Yeah, the battery really sucks. I had an iPhone 5, but I returned it because the battery sucks. I’ll probably get myself a Samsung Galaxy.”

Huh, what’s changed. Is he getting offensive because of being ignored?

“Are there any good apps for the iPhone 5. I didn’t find any back then. And it sucks for games. I think they rushed the release of the iPhone 5 a bit.”

No way opening the Kindle app and trying to read my current novel “Third Shift” by Hugh Howey as the guy tries hard to get some reaction from me. I don’t feel like arguing why I like my iPhone, though. I’m not religious about it. It works for me. If something different works for you, then by all means get that.

“But movies look great on it.”

In that instant I remember hearing David Lynch talking about how you can never experience a movie on a phone. That still holds true for an iPhone 5 - even with it’s 4" display.

Luckily I need to change trains now.