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kitler53 on 08 August 2012
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crissindahouse said:
kitler53 said:
my iphone has three primary purposes (in order): music, games, google maps.

phone, lol. if anything iphone is for texting. the phone feature is what makes an iphone a "required" purchase compared to a gaming consoles "luxury" purchase.

saying iphone sells because it is a phone not because it plays games is completely missing the point. if that is all people were wanting an iphone for people wouldn't be paying the incredibly high premium in phone price. $200 for the phone and a $30 dollar data plan with a 2 year contract = $920 more than a standard phone. you damn well better believe people are buying it for the games, music, internet, gps, and other great (non-phone) features.

i would bet with you that 90% of people who went from iphone 3 or 4 to iphone 4s didn't do that for gaming. and even if it wouldn't have gaming at all 90% would have bought the iphone 4s like they did. most people i know, do you know what they do with their iphone? they do nothing with it, same with people owning other smartphones. sounds crazy but it's the truth, they really do not a lot with it, using a little bit twitter app, texting few friends and surf maybe an hour per weeks on the internet.

most who buy one iphone after the next just do it because it's the new model and they feel bad if they don't have the actual model. people could then say to them that it's not the new model and that would be horrible for them.

maybe not people who are around 20 years old but people with my age or above, i don't really know many who use the phone for more than something they could do with a 100€ phone (without contract). as if they would really run in the apple store the first day of release of the new device to have better music/games/internet which they couldn#t wait for a few weeks.

i'm not saying that everyone is gaming on their iphones.  but the OP said, "Iphone sells because it is a phone.." and that couldn't be further from the truth. iphone is a success because of all the other things it can do that aren't related to the phone.

and what you are saying in bold is basically bigotry imo.