Friend A: The iPhone sucks.
Friend B: Why?
Friend A: The touch-screen sucks.
Friend B: Why?
Friend A: When you are talking on the phone and you press your face against the screen, the call will disconnect.
Friend B: Have you used the iPhone before?
Friend A: No. But I’ve used other phones with touch-screens and this happens. So I’m pretty sure it will happen with the iPhone.
Friend B: But you have never used the iPhone? What if the iPhone has the ability to detect when it is your face pressed against the screen and not you trying to cut the call?
Friend A: Prove to me it has it.
Friend B: I can’t. I’ve never used the phone.
Friend A: So, it doesn’t have the ability.
Friend B: No. It might have. It might not have. The point is that none of us can be sure since both of us have never used the iPhone. So you cannot say the iPhone sucks because of that unless you have used the phone or it has been documented that this happens.
Friend A: Prove to me that it doesn’t happen.
Friend B: I’m not making any assertions. You are. You need to prove it happens.
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Sounds like a conversation between an atheist and an evangelist.
Evangelist: There is a God.
Atheist: You just can’t say there is a God. Prove it.
Evangelist: Prove to me there isn’t a God.
Atheist: What? Why? I’m not the one claiming the existence of someone no one can see, touch or hear.
Evangelist: Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
Atheist: True. True. So you can’t prove there is a God.
Evangelist: You can’t prove there is no God too.
Atheist: Yeah. Of course. But why should I?
Evangelist: Well, you need to if you say there is no God.
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I understand why people just go to war over such stuff. Killing is so much simpler then hoping that another human being has the capacity for rationale thought.
Emily | 13-Jun-08 at 2:48 pm | Permalink
The screen of the iPhone blanks out once you place it on your ear to make/receive a call.
iantimothy | 13-Jun-08 at 2:58 pm | Permalink
Hello. Does that mean you cannot accidentally cut off a call?
Emily | 13-Jun-08 at 4:35 pm | Permalink
Hi,
That’s right. You can’t cut off the call by accidentally touching the screen with your ear, chin or cheek because the screen is blank.
firdooze | 14-Jun-08 at 2:32 am | Permalink
hahaha.. do me a favour and shoot your friend for me! LOL
most touch screen phones now has that function of detecting a false touch.
Little Entrepreneur | 14-Jun-08 at 8:16 am | Permalink
Why in the world are 2 people having a conversation about the iPhone when they know nothing about it?
iantimothy | 15-Jun-08 at 1:51 pm | Permalink
@firdooze, @Little Entrepreneurs… apologize that I took so long to approve your comments. Didn’t have Internet access for last two days.
I think two people can discuss the iPhone if they have not used it but there is a limit to what you can or should discuss.
@firdooze I’m pretty sure that’s a criminal offense..
moocow | 19-Aug-08 at 5:38 pm | Permalink
ha! this is an example of a typical convo between me and my partner. and yes… sometimes u just feel like wringing the other’s neck
in regards to apple’s products- overrated.