The Jesus Christ of PDAs
Tierney Sneed
Issue date: 9/4/09 Section: Commentary
Shit happens. Especially in college. Cameras are dropped. iPods are busted. Computers crash. In this world of technological turmoil, there is one creed I can believe in: my Blackberry will miraculously resurrect from any seeming crucifixion I condemn it to. Even when drowned in beer, it continues to ring. At worst, the keys malfunction for a bit (come on, even Jesus Christ was dead for three days). By the time I recover from my Sunday morning hangover, my Blackberry has recovered from any trauma it too had experienced the night before.
Between bragging about calorie counting applications and worshipping Steve Jobs, iPhone users perpetually return to the Apple Store, shelling out hundreds of dollars for a new cell. Cracked screens, water damage, mechanical malfunction: if you breathe on an iPhone too hard it will break.
Sure, iPhones can do basically everything a computer does, but therein lies their fatal flaw. Would you let your laptop rattle around your purse all day or be tossed across the room so a friend could read a text? Hells no. Well that is essentially what iPhone users do everyday; it is no wonder the results are often disastrous.
There is a reason the Blackberry is often called "the crackberry". It features a number of addictively useful applications: Pandora radio, Brickbreaker, even G-Chat! Blackberry Messaging (BBM) makes texting all the more exciting with its creepy "message delivered", "message arrived", "contact is typing" features that make late-night sexting all the more thrilling. Plus, the Blackberry offers models with button keys for those lacking the specialized motor skills to operate the iPhone's finicky touch screen.
Using an iPhone in college is like playing flip-cup with wedding china: overly flashy, irresponsible and just plain tool-ish. Blackberries have all the special powers while still being able to withstand the recklessness of a college youth. After all, we are not black silhouettes that live in a monotone empty world, so why would we use a phone that advertises as such?
Sneed is an English junior and A & E Editor.
Between bragging about calorie counting applications and worshipping Steve Jobs, iPhone users perpetually return to the Apple Store, shelling out hundreds of dollars for a new cell. Cracked screens, water damage, mechanical malfunction: if you breathe on an iPhone too hard it will break.
Sure, iPhones can do basically everything a computer does, but therein lies their fatal flaw. Would you let your laptop rattle around your purse all day or be tossed across the room so a friend could read a text? Hells no. Well that is essentially what iPhone users do everyday; it is no wonder the results are often disastrous.
There is a reason the Blackberry is often called "the crackberry". It features a number of addictively useful applications: Pandora radio, Brickbreaker, even G-Chat! Blackberry Messaging (BBM) makes texting all the more exciting with its creepy "message delivered", "message arrived", "contact is typing" features that make late-night sexting all the more thrilling. Plus, the Blackberry offers models with button keys for those lacking the specialized motor skills to operate the iPhone's finicky touch screen.
Using an iPhone in college is like playing flip-cup with wedding china: overly flashy, irresponsible and just plain tool-ish. Blackberries have all the special powers while still being able to withstand the recklessness of a college youth. After all, we are not black silhouettes that live in a monotone empty world, so why would we use a phone that advertises as such?
Sneed is an English junior and A & E Editor.
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