To each their own, of course. But I'm very glad I'm not so busy as to need a calendar of my appointments at my fingertips (though I could hardly imagine being more busy than I am). What good a portably address list or other data might be to me I cannot even imagine.
And, of course, I haven't even owned a camera in the digital age ... preferring to live without my own authored photography in favor of the ease of lifestyle habit that comes with internet access to other people's photos of events I've been at.
The iPhone's internet access would indeed come in handy now and then, but the cost of that convenience outweights its usefulness to me. As it is, I hate modern life's new bills that didn't exist before, namely a second telephone, television service, water, and of course - the internet access that didn't exist at all.
Water and television used to be free, and one phone suited an entire family. Ah, the good old days!
I'm doubly glad the iPhone doesn't appeal to me, because it would suck to want it and yet be barred by virtue of AT&T/Cingular's lock on the service.
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