The Cult of Cool
Posted on 12. Jan, 2010 by Dan Abrams in Business
A young PR executive named Dave interrupted my game of Soosiz on the 6 train this morning to inform me that I am “sheeple.”
You see, I had simply bought my iPhone because it had a great ad campaign, not because of it’s wonderful API which has allowed thousands of developers to launch fun and useful apps, like this or this or this, or the fact that I could easily sync it with the TV shows and movies I had bought from iTunes, nor even the fact that it has the best web browser I’ve ever used on any of my four smartphones.
Dave, who was standing, even though there were plenty of seats, wasn’t just one of the herd. He carried a Blackberry. Because he’s important, a business executive, he can’t be bothered to use a toy like the iPhone. I was just about to ask him to show me how a word document or pdf attachment looks on his Blackberry (not nearly as good), but he had wandered off, presumably to lecture a young mother that she should have been like him and waited until her thirties to have kids.
For the record, my iPhone is downright amazing and if you can afford it, I highly recommend you get one. There are other great phones with similar feature sets, but honestly, everyone else is playing catch up, especially blackberry. All of this is good for competition and means that everyone is making better phones.
On the other hand, is the blackberry. It is in two ways superior to the iPhone: It does email very well and it has a keyboard. If all you do is reply to emails, by all means, use a blackberry. There’s no shame.
In terms of every other feature, however, the iPhone wins. It is a better media player. It has much better web browsing. It has a tremendous app store and is easier to develop for. It has more applications. It has more accessories. You get it fixed at a pleasant Apple store operated by employees who love their company, instead of the fucking Verizon kiosk at the mall manned by two teenagers who were fired from Radio Shack for being too self-important.
AND…THE BLACKBERRY FREQUENTLY DOESN’T WORK!!!
Dave, I carry a tool that does amazing things and for which I feel honest, romantic love. You call me sheeple while using an inferior product simply to make a point. I win.
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