October 22, 2008
iPhone ringtone snobbery
The iPhone 3G has been selling here in Switzerland for a couple of months, and until the Apple store opened a few weeks ago, you had to put your name on a waiting list at the partner networks (Swisscom and Orange) - because for some unfathomable and annoying reason, they ran out of stock half way through launch day.
So having an iPhone in Geneva is still very special and you can identify someone with an iPhone before he or she even pulls it out because of it's "old phone" ringtone, which seems to be the ringtone of choice from the small selection offered.
So we have gone from being cell phone users who loved to change our ringtones, making whatever a mild a statement that was, giving a glimpse of our personality or just making it easier to identify our own phone, to wanting the same ringtone as everyone else - everyone else who has an iPhone that is. And this from the same people who wouldn't have been caught dead using a default ringtone from their Nokia.
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