Good grief, I am so very old-fashioned. I don't have an iPhone and have no particularly interesting, I don't Tweet and I barely, BARELY use Facebook.
My main issue with the iPhone is capacity. My 120GB iPod has only about 45GB left, and that shrinks with every new TV show I like or great movie I see. Frankly, I find it hard to get excited about an 8GB iPhone.
But far from that, I see my friends and the apps they have on their iPhones, and I see that the iPhone is in a kind of aloescence. To expand the analogy, when a new concept (particularly a piece of technology) is introduced, it's like a baby everyone wants to see it and "ooh" and "aww" at it and watch it grow and get better.
Then it enters its adolescence it becomes associated with stupid, even dangerous behaviour (i.e. Youtube) and no one really believes it will go anywhere. Finally, it emerges into adulthood (where Youtube is now) and everyone is surprised that after those rough years, it's ingeneous and handy to have around. Right now, the iPhone is great if you want to make lightsaber noises and play games, and even many of the useful apps (such as maps and directions) are available on regular mobile phones.
I guess eventually I'll have to hop on the bandwagon, but I will do so only when I have to, and until then I will shake my head in pompous self-righteousness at all the idiots around me discussing their "apps".
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I felt/feel exactly the same way about the iphone! If you look at my blog, I bitch about it a little in one of my posts. I am ashamed to admit that I've now actually jumped on the bandwagon and am waiting for my iphone to be delivered to me in the next couple of weeks. What a cop-out! I am, however, looking forward to making lightsaber sounds with my phone.
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