Why do people insist on showing you their apple products?

[tommers]

We've all been there. You're down the pub or in the office, some munchkin has got a new apple product and, before you know it, there they are - showing you it, shoving into your hands with strident imprecations to touch it, to look at it, to hear all about its wonderful features and how it makes them feel complete.

What is that about? Why does everybody with an iPad insist on "letting" you play with it? A tablet isn't something that is FROM THE FUTURE any more. "I got it for face time, so I can speak to my family". Eh? I had a phone with video calling on it in 2003! "I can update documents and then send them by e-mail!" "The keyboard is very easy to type on". What?!?

Seriously, get over yourselves. If I make my face into a kind of semi-sneering expression when you ask me if I want to look at it, then it means I don't.

This must be how people feel when I talk to them about my kids.

 

[joustmaster]

two reasons

they spent a lot of money on it
its shiny

 

[UnderOpenSky]

Yeah, long gone are the days when you pulled out a smart phone they were something unusual enough that people wanted to look at it.

 

[geminisnake]

We've all been there.

I haven't. Maybe it's a down south thing but people I know don't show off their mobiles/gadgets, etc. I don't know many office workers though.

 

[SheWolf]

Do you wanna see my iPhone home screen? Oh go on then

 

[Hocus Eye.]

I bought a carton of apple juice the other day. I kept quiet about it though not wishing to cause offence.

 

[pogofish]

I haven't. Maybe it's a down south thing but people I know don't show off their mobiles/gadgets, etc. I don't know many office workers though.

This, I can't think of many times anyone I know has shown-off a gadget unless asked about it.

 

[SheWolf]

I bought a carton of apple juice the other day. I kept quiet about it though not wishing to cause offence.

Respect! Peeps can get so jealous innit

 

[Gromit]

Do they re

shoving into your hands with strident imprecations to touch it, to look at it,

<snip>

This must be how people feel when I talk to them about my kids.

I don't let anyone touch my Apple products. They can't be trusted with them unless they have one of their own, in which case they can touch their's and not mine.

p.s. You invite people to touch your kids?

 

[Captain Hurrah]

My Nokia 3310.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

This, I can't think of many times anyone I know has shown-off a gadget unless asked about it.

Me neither. One might almost suspect a slight level of exaggeration here

 

[SheWolf]

My Nokia 3310.

I was so annoyed when I left 3310 in the back of a taxi and never got it back. It had a lovely purple fascia as well

 

[pogofish]

Me neither. One might almost suspect a slight level of exaggeration here

Well it has happened occasionally, so there are some sad sooks out there who do live to wax lyrical about their gadgets but I've more taken it as someone just looking for a reason to talk to someone/anyone.

 

[T & P]

My Nokia 3310.

Well at least you can use your phone to crack nuts and break through brick walls in case of an emergency- try to do that with an iPhone...

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

I still think my HTC tattoo is spacey. I told someone at work that I watched films on it sometimes and they laughed at me.

I don't even use it as a phone. It's shit as a phone, I have nokia wotsit.

 

[keybored]

Blatant hipster-bullying thread, last in.

 

[mrs quoad]

Threads that seemed like a good idea at the time, no.135,423 in a series

 

[editor]

Do you wanna see my iPhone home screen? Oh go on then

Looks a bit underwhelming, tbh.

 

[T & P]

 

[geminisnake]

My Nokia 3310.

Nothing wrong with them! They work, they don't have hissy fits and they are reliable!! I 'upgraded' to a 100 the other week, not quite used to it yet!

 

[Mrs Magpie]

We've all been there.

I feel bereft. I have never 'been there'.

 

[Gromit]

Looks a bit underwhelming, tbh.

No need to buy the iPhone 5 with its space for 5 rows of icons when they are only using 3 now.

 

[SheWolf]

Looks a bit underwhelming, tbh.

It was a bit of a sarcy post tbh.

 

[editor]

It was a bit of a sarcy post tbh.

Still looks pretty underwhelming though

 

[editor]

I remember wood finish vinyl. It looked as crap in the 70s as it does on that doofuses machine.

(I recall covering a shit record player I had in the stuff thinking it would look classy. I was wrong).

 

[Sweet Meiga]

Yes, it's really a bit strange. My apple fan friend says that when an apple product person sitting in a cafe or similar place sees another apple person, they give each other a happy smile.
Not that I have anything against smiling but just because someone has an apple??

 

[SheWolf]

Yes, it's really a bit strange. My apple fan friend says that when an apple product person sitting in a cafe or similar place sees another apple person, they give each other a happy smile.
Not that I have anything against smiling but just because someone has an apple??

No! Seriously? I've never seen this before. I must get out more

 

[magneze]

Brockwell Park was full of people with apple products this weekend.

 

[Sweet Meiga]

No! Seriously? I've never seen this before. I must get out more

Seriously!
I must add that this friend of mine is also selling Apple products, so he might have a more trained eye and ready smile on these occasions

 

[Ax^]

Work with a loud Jamaican apple fanboy currently


Don't need him to show you the merits of his apple products you can hear him from the other end of the building..

*sighs*