Sent from my iPad. Sent from my iPhone.
These are two of the most stupid lines you encounter at the end of an email or a text message these days. They serve the valuable purpose of informing you that the sender of the message has purchased one of these devices from the Apple Computer Corporation and is using it.
That’s certainly newsworthy enough for you to know about it, isn’t it?
Exactly why anyone, of average intelligence and above, would allow themselves to be used as an advertising hoarding is beyond me.
The iPad is nothing special. The same applies to the iPhone. Both consumer devices have been taken up in large numbers, sure, but are now losing ground to others that are running the Android operating system.
I have not found a single other device that creates a default tag to every message. Neither have I seen a user of any other device who would not delete such a message right away.
But for many businessmen, whose knowledge of computers extended as far as being able to spell the word correctly about 75 per cent of the time, buying an iPad is a way of appearing cool and with it. So they have to let the rest of the world know they are in the loop.
The same applies to many iPhone owners too. My doctor, for example, has more money than he knows what to do with, and has an iPhone 5 with a snazzy case. He can just about manage to phone his wife – that is the only reason he needs a mobile phone.
Apple users have long been known as snobs. They think the fact that they can afford to buy devices that are priced much higher than the corresponding devices for other operating systems makes them in some way superior.
Mitt Romney has plenty of money too. He is not exactly an individual one would describe as smart. Or savvy. Or educated.
Maybe Apple users should bear that in mind.
oh my, at last someone speaks about that string of text. Every time I see that I think to myself this person is a lazy idiot or a hard-core apple fan-boy. The thing is the people whom I know are not apple fan-boys, so they must be lazy idiots.
Actually thats wrong, blackberries had email signatures long before any of these. Androids still have email signatures, and in fact the AT & T android once had one of the silliest email signatures around – http://www.androidcentral.com/how-change-ridiculous-att-e-mail-signature
So yeah, apple users aren’t alone, android and blackberry users are equally stupid.
K9 is an Android Email program that has such a .sig by default. I changed it to mention the type of phone I use, that might be useful information for some people and I’m happy to promote Android as a much better option than iOS.