I love it when you call…
It’s official. I want an iPhone. I don’t need an iPhone. I can’t justify the money spent for an iPhone. But, I just wanted to make an official announcement that Apple has sucked me into the world where I might be more sympathetic to cell phones. And maybe hear mine and answer it once and a while. (But, you two people out there who call me, don’t cross your fingers.)
What, you may ask, prompted this shift in being ambivalent to/slightly annoyed by cell phones (or the rude people who speak on them while ordering lunch at restaurants) to oh my god, I neeeeed one?
I am currently looping my 30 second “Causing a Commotion” ringtone. I’ve got the moves, baby. You’ve got the motion. If we got together, we’d be causing a commotion…
I’d hear my phone every time it rang. Nice!*
*Bastards! I looked through my iTunes tracks marked with a bell for “ringtone” and there weren’t actually that many. Which surprised me. But, not for long. I figured it out. And it doesn’t surprise me. You can only make a ringtone from your library of songs if you’ve already purchased that ringtone eligible track from iTunes. (So really, to get a ringtone it’s $0.99 for the song and another $0.99 for the tone, regardless of whether the song is already in your library by other means.) Clever, Apple, clever.
Tuesday, 18th September 2007 at 18:13
I gotta agree, there’s something really tempting looking about those iPhone things.
Right now, I don’t have a cell phone at all, which is weird. But I wasn’t using it enough to justify the monthly cost and can just borrow significant other’s–at least sometimes, when she doesn’t need it (which is actually rare).
Every now and then it’s a huge pain, because pay phones are practically nonexistent now. But it’s often sort of nice to be truly unreachable when I’m out and about. Plus the sound never seems as good as on a landline.