All the furor over gay marriage has me baffled, because I am telling you now that no reasonable person should go looking for ways to make a public declaration of anything. Take my declaration of iPhone envy, for instance. That was bound to get me into trouble. Mostly the trouble has to do with actually acquiring an iPhone. It’s kind of hard. Yes, I do know how to walk into a store and give them a credit card. That’s not so hard. What is hard is really figuring out what the dang thing is going to cost relative to what I am paying now.
We have a plan with the big V which serves us just fine and is what we are budgeted for. Sure, any smartphone is going to mean more cost in cell service, but how much more? With any other phone, you can just tack on more stuff to the existing plan. Yofi! Everything is clear. With the iPhone you have to get a whole new plan.
Then there is the cost of the phone itself. This is another potentially disastrous issue since the credit that we get every two years to update the phone does no worky with the iPhone purchase. I guess this is about the time when a normal blogger would start down the path of unflattering comparisons between Steve Jobs and either Satan or Hitler. I don’t think Steve Jobs is a satanic Nazi, I think he’s got a great product that a lot of people are willing to pay top dollar for.
And it’s probably worth it, but I just could not pull the trigger. Instead, I am getting a Droid. Specifically, the Droid R2D2. I’ll be looking for a case for this thing. Sure, it lacks a forward facing camera and, therefore, the ability to video chat. It’s also $130 less out of the gate. And I know how much the cell plan is going to increase. $25 a month. That’s it. Had I been able to compare this sweet deal head to head with an iPhone purchase, things might have come out differently. Instead, I am able to save the energy that might have been spent defending the iPhone purchase to the person with whom I have made other public declarations.