{"id":128,"date":"2008-04-30T19:44:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-30T19:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2008\/04\/the-great-iphone-debate.html"},"modified":"2008-04-30T19:44:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-30T19:44:00","slug":"the-great-iphone-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2008\/04\/the-great-iphone-debate.html","title":{"rendered":"The Great iPhone Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Me: “I want an iPhone<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

Dave: “How can you be such a slave to technology?”<\/p>\n

Me: “It’s cool and it takes care of many of the things I want to do in today’s wireless world. After all, my current cell phone<\/a> is on the brink of death and if I lose it, I not only lose my phone, but also my MP3 player. So we can replace both the phone and MP3 player, or get it all-in-one with an iPhone!”<\/p>\n

Dave: “It’s Skynet<\/a> — it’s coming!”<\/p>\n

I’ve already been to our local Apple store where they have banks of them with which you can log in to your own e-mail accounts and send messages, make phone calls, you can take photos\/videos and you can surf the web. I thoroughly enjoyed playing with them, as did my boys, who immediately asked me to bring up the Peanut Butter Jelly video<\/a> on You Tube!<\/p>\n

Dave showed me this cartoon<\/a>, which is pretty funny, but does a good job bringing to light one of my fears of getting a full-priced phone. I’ve been pretty brutal on my cell phones. I’d need to get insurance and one of those super-armored “skins” to protect it.<\/p>\n

Since we have that IRS Economic Stimulus<\/a> money coming to us later this month, and President Bush wants us to spend more money<\/a>, I’m thinking our opportunity for me to get an iPhone couldn’t be better!<\/p>\n

A valid concern I do have about having this iPhone is the, um, URGE I’ll have to want to be on the web all the time. Might I be trying to write e-mails at traffic lights? Or worse yet, while I’m cruising down I-40??? Do other people do that?<\/p>\n

We’ll see whether I get one or not. So far I’m not completely sold, but I’m about 80% there.<\/p>\n

-Patricia the Techno-Slave<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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