Owning iPhones doesn’t make us friends
Blog, CNETApparently it may surprise a small number of people to know this, but simply owning an iPhone does not automatically make you friends with someone else who owns an iPhone.
I was on the train from the office the other night, reading the Web on my iPhone. Sat across from me was a girl, also using an iPhone. She noticed and raised her iPhone to show me that she, too, had an iPhone, and smiled at me accordingly.
Mostly, that’s fine. People on trains habitually look miserable during their journey, and smiling at someone is always nice. However, her reason for smiling at me was purely because we both had iPhones — a ‘meeting of minds’ over N95s, BlackBerry Curves or Sony Ericssons would not have caused this moment of atypical kinship.
Now, if you’re a one-legged albino midget, and you bump into another one-legged albino midget on a train, that’s a reason to strike up a conversation (especially as you’ve probably both fallen over). Simply owning an iPhone is not. Continue reading…
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