Now i’ve done it
when the iPhone first came out, i nearly went out and bought an 8 GB one for $599. i decided to wait, which was very hard to do as my wife had given me the okay to buy one. well, with the recent news of Apple dropping the price of the iPhone by $200, i knew it was time to buy. instead of going for the 8 GB iPhone, i decided to buy 2 of the 4 GB iPhones at $299 for the same total price i nearly bought 1 a few months back. i won’t write a review of the iPhone because they’re everywhere, but i do have to say that i held off because i had some reservations . . . and now having owned one i can’t believe i waited. browsing the internet from anywhere is awesome. and, it’s not a watered down cell phone internet; rather, it’s real, real real.
i can tell AT&T is not as good as Verizon in my area because the signal strength isn’t as strong, but so far it’s working even when i get down to 1 bar. this post is more about something that sort of irks me — being charged for ringtones. This isn’t Apple; rather, it’s the music industry. i can see being charged for a midi file that is different than the songs on the iTunes Music Store as it has the vocals removed and all that jazz . . . but being charged for the same exact song???
while i think downloading illegal music is wrong and it’s something i won’t do . . . i also think there’s just something about buying a ringtone that i won’t do. i have bought the music already. i can play the music on my iPod or burn it to a CD and play it on CD player and in DVD players and i can play the music in my car or on a home stereo. why should i pay to also have this same song play on the same device just because a call comes in? the notion that ringtones are somehow in a need of a new license agreement that i’ll pay for again is ludicrous. i bought it to play on my iPhone and it plays on my iPhone and now they want me to pay again so i can play it again on my iPhone? PUHHHLEASE!!!!!! the RIAA can go after illegal downloaders like crazy for all i care, but this is just too much. why do customers put up with this?
September 23rd, 2007 at 7:57 pm
I am suprised to find out you have to pay for ringtones. Now I don’t know much about the iPhone, although I would like one, but does it come with ringtones already or do you want a ringtone that’s not on the phone? It sounds like it is already on it but in order to have the song as a ringtone the words would need to be taken out. Does the phone come already downloaded with songs and if so you’d think the songs that are already on the phone would be included as ringtones.
But who really needs a lot of ringtones anyways? I use my cell everyday of the week, basically I call around 10 different people, I use only 3 different ringtones, my husband, our house phone, and my mother. With caller id on the phone sometimes a ringtone doesn’t really matter. Besides with all the different ringtones, it gets annoying listening to other people’s cell phones going off. I was at a soccer game the other day and a lady on the bleacher had her cell phone laying next to her. All of a sudden coming from the phone at a high volume was some Island tunes, now I have to say at 7:30 in the morning it did want to make me get up and dance, wishing I had tropical drink in my hand, but it only made me realize I had got up to early and was cold despite having a hot cup of coffee.
I also wonder why someone would pay so much for a cell phone, especially when a majority of phones offer the same features, call waiting, caller id, call forwarding, texting, voicemail, gps, email, windows, bluetooth, etc. I know or am pretty sure the iPhone has most if not all of these features but to pay that much for it, is it worth it? How long will it take before the screen gets scratched? Just some thoughts