Filed under: Odds and ends, iPhone
The obligatory SmashMyiPhone.com debutes
Here we go again - as if smashing one's iPod (and Playstation 3, and Wii...) wasn't enough, someone has already registered SmashMyiPhone.com and is - obviously - taking donations to purchase an iPhone whose number is already up. Unless this site finds a workaround to purchasing an iPhone sans-contract, however, *someone* will also be paying for the next two years by being locked into a contract. Will it be worth it? Has the novelty worn off? If you want my two cents (respectively): no, and yes - a thousand times yes. Still - will they net enough donations to demolish one of the most anticipated mobile phones in history? Only time can tell.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Chris said 10:50PM on 1-10-2007
They can simply pay the contract termination fee (usually $175) and include it in the price of the initial purchase. Simple enough, no?
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Richard Neal said 10:56PM on 1-10-2007
The spelling and punctuation errors rampant throughout the information, as well as the terrible, terrible page design make me think its a scam. Wouldn't someone who was actually going through with this have updated it by now?
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shirster said 11:18PM on 1-10-2007
These people simply have nothing better to do. Both the ones who came up with the site and those who actually donate to it. Why not just give the money to a charity instead of wasting it on such a stupid act?
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Joe said 11:29PM on 1-10-2007
The people that set that site up and support them are total scum.
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Ian said 12:05AM on 1-11-2007
The Apple Stores probably don't allow anyone with a sledgehammer/foam bat to enter, after the SmashMyiPod guys killed an iPod back in 2005. So far SmashMyiPhone only has one dollar, and I don't think they'll get much more any time soon.
I've been having trouble receiving email, so I might have to try post this again.
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disgrunt said 2:24AM on 1-11-2007
the jedi's will feel that 1, as if a million screaming apple fans were suddenly silenced.
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Daniel Lyons said 2:49AM on 1-11-2007
Actually I think these guys are doing the world an incredible service: they're reminding us that things are merely things, and that you get to do whatever you want with your own property.
If you're seriously disturbed by this kind of behavior, you might want to think about why that is.
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olivernward said 5:27AM on 1-11-2007
an incredible service? i don't think so.
i'm not disturbed by this kind of behaviour, it's just predictable.
maybe the first few times this was done it was a relevant comment on consumerism, but now? not so much.
now it's just flat out a "me too" scenario. the point has only to be made a few times before it loses it's relevance, especially in this scenario.
if they were making a significant comment here they would be smashing their own stuff, not taking other people's money to smash something that's essentially not theirs. ask them to go home and stick a power drill through their own equipment and see what their response is.
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Bultie said 6:53AM on 1-11-2007
This stuff just sucks, its not funny, nor in a political active sense.
I think if you do something with full engadgement and it doen't matter if its Art or just a good designed product its a part of honnor to respect it and not to destroy it.
Stop supporting those morron white trash kids by posting theyr shit!
Have a nice day.
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rdas7 said 9:38AM on 1-11-2007
sad.
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Draiz said 10:54AM on 1-11-2007
What's funny is that Apple might change the name to something less likely to win them a lawsuit from Cisco!
Too bad for the guy who thought he was outsmarting everyone by buying SmashmyIphone.com... He'll have to settle for the smashing of Cisco's iphone and I wager this won't get him as much publicity if not at all :)
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Simon said 4:56PM on 1-11-2007
thds is just getting ridiculous. dont people have better things to do with their lives? i think the novelty wore off after smashmyxbox.com
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