Apple begins shipping white iPhone 4 to stateside retail stores - Page 2

Originally Posted by solipsism

Dont pretend to use science to hide behind your bigotry and hate.

Originally Posted by scotty321

OMG, does anybody even care about the white iPhone anymore? Who cares what color it is? You put it in a case anyways.

Originally Posted by brucep

really?

Originally Posted by gijoeinla

Ya, really.

I mean do u *really* think Apple operates on the fly? They just feel like throwing out the White i4 at the *supposed* end of it's cycle? On the *apparent* heals of i5? BS. The white iPhone was held back to fill a void, no other reason.

Bottom line - RESEARCH dictates decisions. Clearly their is DEMAND for ALL WHITE Apple products. Doh. To say otherwise is lame and clearly uninformed. Let's see. White MacBooks, iPods, iPads, and gee iPhones.

Why not try to sell one iPhone for all networks that will eliminate a costly distribution and technical nightmare? Yea Apple is smart, smarter than most.

Originally Posted by Apple ][

Tupac is no prophet, he was a rapper. And it's pretty ironic to be quoting a rapper when you are complaining about supposedly sexist and misogynistic comments. Females are bitches to most in the hip hop world. On videos, their main job is to shake their fat booties and little else. Fags are also mentioned in some Tupac tracks, and I don't believe that he's referring to English cigarettes.

Originally Posted by Apple ][

I don't hate women. Women are awesome and I get along great with females. I have more female friends than male. I also treat women a whole lot better than your rapper heroes do.

Originally Posted by solipsism

Dont pretend to use science to hide behind your bigotry and hate.


You sound a lot like Thomas Jefferson in your rationalization as to why your fellow human being is inferior to you by design.

"Comparing them by their faculties of memory, reason, and imagination, it appears to me, that in memory they are equal to the whites; in reason much inferior, as I think one [black] could scarcely be found capable of tracing and comprehending the investigations of Euclid; and that in imagination they are dull, tasteless, and anomalous.

He goes on to praise their musical talent, but not in poetry and math where they were inferior by design. That they were lazy. That they lacked logic skills and they smelled bad.

Then there was the brilliant, young, female poet Phillis Wheatley. She was the first African American poet and the first African-American woman whose writings were published. Jefferson stated she wasnt a poet at all, she just mimic the things she had already read simply because he couldnt bring himself to believe this girl was capable of such things.

You disgust me!

Originally Posted by mstone

Look at it this way. A lot of girls don't put very much stuff on their phones so the 16GB is fine and for $200 plus a small early upgrade fee they would have the pretty new iPhone - all for the cost of a pair of shoes. You know how they are with shoes, they need to match their outfit.

I don't see a lot of guys going silly over a white iPhone.

Originally Posted by Apple ][

I think that cultural issues make up probably 95%. Genetic issues might only account for a very small percentage, but there are slight differences between the male brain VS female brain and there are also hormonal issues involved.

Originally Posted by Apple ][

I don't hate women. Women are awesome and I get along great with females. I have more female friends than male. I also treat women a whole lot better than your rapper heroes do.

Originally Posted by oomu

Your comment make me so angry I will go all crazy for the white iPhone just to fuck your mind.

Originally Posted by SHOBIZ

If I wanted a white iphone I would just get a white case.

Originally Posted by oomu

I will go all crazy for the white iPhone just to fuck your mind

Originally Posted by hentaiboy

I think the girls=white, boys=black thang is ingrained in us from the wedding tradition (brides=white, grooms=black).
Doing a swap looks hawt

Originally Posted by Apple ][

I don't hate women. Women are awesome and I get along great with females. I have more female friends than male. I also treat women a whole lot better than your rapper heroes do.

Originally Posted by mstone

The fact that you can get so upset over relatively benign comments means you are the one with a fucked mind.

There is nothing wrong with making generalizations if they are true. I said nothing derogatory about women, they just have different priorities.

Men tend to get heavy into technology and performance autos simply for the sake of the tweaking the machines where women tend to be less interested in those things but are usually keen on fashion and conversation. One mindset is not better than the other, just different. Ironically each tend to look at the other's priorities as rather peculiar. The difference between men and women is a good thing.

Originally Posted by solipsism

Q: Who was traditionally dressed in pink and called a girl?

Originally Posted by BUSHMAN4

While the White Iphone4 is nice does anyone really think that people have been waiting 10 months just to get a White IPhone? And even though rumors say IPhone5 will be a Fall release nobody has really made any statement at Apple thereby leaving the possibility still open for a June~July launch. So when you look at the White IPhone launch don't expect to see lines for this item
Most people that wanted An Iphone4 have a black one or settled for a black one

Originally Posted by anantksundaram

i) You've got some serious issues with, and about women.

ii) I kinda feel badly for the women in your life (including the ones related to you, who have no choice).

iii) You're embarrassing yourself and this board. Please stop.

Originally Posted by AppleInsider

Apple this weekend began preparing its retail segment for the imminent launch of the company's much-anticipated white iPhone 4 models, signaling the end of a somewhat embarrassing delay that has seen the handsets elude eager buyers since last July.

According to people familiar with the matter, Apple's U.S-based retail stores began receiving promotional information overnight that features the white iPhone 4, expected to launch for both Verizon and AT&T subscribers "within the next week."

In addition, several stores are said to have received shipment notifications for the various white iPhone 4 SKUs and have been instructed to hold those shipments in the back of the house until further notice. All indications point to an official announcement by Wednesday, April 27th.

Word that white iPhones are finally en route to Apple stores in the U.S. comes just days after the inventory systems of U.K.-based wireless carrier Vodafone indicated stock of the handsets while photos of a 16GB model in official retail packaging -- carrying model number MC604B/A -- were published online.

The arrival of white models is expected to serve as a boon for iPhone sales during a time of year when customers have historically held off purchasing new iPhones under the expectation of next-generation models making their debut during the summer.

This year, however, Apple is widely reported to have decided to forgo a summer iPhone introduction in favor of introducing so-called fifth-generation models in the fall, much closer to the holiday shopping season. According to AppleInsider's sources, these new models will go into production in September and sport a unified Qualcomm baseband capable of serving both GSM and CDMA networks.

Such a move is also expected to allow the Cupertino-based company to align fifth-generation iPhones for a simultaneous release on both GSM and CDMA networks, meaning both AT&T and Verizon customers should be able to buy the new handsets later this year at the same time.



Apple has publicly pushed back the release of the white iPhone 4 several times over the past 9 months. In late July of last year, the company revealed that it would not be able to launch the handset alongside black models that month as it had originally planned. Instead, Apple rescheduled the launch for "Late 2010" only to concede a few months later that it would miss that self-imposed deadline as well, telling customers not to expect white models until the Spring of 2011.

This March, however, AppleInsider exclusively reported that Apple had finally begun production of the white models, which would become available to customers by April. The company was said to have made changes to both the handset's original "film material" and paint mixture that were resulting in the production of a "huge" number of defective units.

Originally Posted by dotnsk

But your generalizations AREN'T all that true. You're making the assumption that MOST men are into computers and cars and MOST women are into fashion and conversation. Amongst my group of friends, just as many women are into Top Gear as men, and we all trade an equal amount of gossip. I know lots of female gamers and quite a few men whom I can approach for fashion advice.

Oh, by the way: I'm a woman who loves sports, cars, and technology. I can shame most of my male friends when it comes to basketball stats, and I held a job in the computer industry for three years before deciding to go to law school. I'm also a "normal and fashion-conscious" (to use your phrasing from an earlier post) woman. I am not the exception in my group of friends.

I've interacted with people who make assumptions like you've made, and it can be infuriating. I've had men express genuine surprise that I could explain some relatively simple differences in hard drives to them and others second-guess everything I said with a male coworker standing nearby. They were nice people, but they operated under the misguided conception that men were experts on technology and I couldn't possibly know as much simply because I'm female, so everything I said was suspect.

You wouldn't say, "most black people are lazy" because that's racist and untrue. By the same token, you also shouldn't make positive or neutral generalizations, because they can be just as destructive (e.g., "Asians are good at math" or "women don't like cars and technology"). They are just as racist or sexist as something one might categorize as a negative generalization. Saying things like "women aren't great with technology" can make it difficult for a well-qualified woman to get a job in the technology field, because the perception is that she'll be inferior to her male counterparts. Additionally, perpetuating that Asians are good at math can do the same thing to anyone else seeking a math-related position--if that individual isn't Asian, perhaps he/she won't be perceived as being equally qualified, even if he/she is.

We're all people, and we have varied talents and interests. Lots of women like tech. Lots of men don't. I'd be hard-pressed to make a "most" generalization about either group, though.

Originally Posted by mstone

Good post and I can't help but notice that you are the exception not the rule and you obviously feel the same way. I may also be the exception in my gender. I love smart women, I am not intimidated by them and I encourage them. I also am happy to let them be who they naturally are without judging them. I'm in technology but I try to turn it off when not at work. And I do love a good chick flick and not ashamed to admit emotional scenes can bring a tear to my eye.

Originally Posted by mstone

I do love a good chick flick and not ashamed to admit emotional scenes can bring a tear to my eye.

Originally Posted by AdonisSMU

Quit trying to get in.

Originally Posted by hentaiboy

But would you buy a white iPhone?

Originally Posted by lamewing

I used to care a couple of months ago about upgrading my iPhone this month, but my upgrade date has come and gone and I no longer really care about upgrading my 3GS to either an iPhone 4 or 5. At a certain point, all the tech stuff just become superfluous.

Originally Posted by bdkennedy1

Embarrassing? Try a fu**ing disaster.

Originally Posted by mstone

The difference between men and women is a good thing.

Originally Posted by Apple ][

Men and women are indeed different. They're biologically and physically different.

Political correctness is the height of ignorance

Originally Posted by Apple ][

Most women are totally clueless when it comes to computers. There might be a few exceptions to that rule, but overall, females need help from males when it comes to any computer related issues beyond the simplest of problems. This may be due to cultural issues or perhaps due to genetics. Either way, most women are worse at computers than men are.

Originally Posted by Apple ][

I think that cultural issues make up probably 95%. Genetic issues might only account for a very small percentage, but there are slight differences between the male brain VS female brain and there are also hormonal issues involved.

Originally Posted by Prof. Peabody

Thanks for the sexist nonsense.

If this was a racist instead of merely gender based slag, you'd probably be banned, but I guess it's okay to make stupid generalisations about women here.

Originally Posted by solipsism

WTF is with all these sexist and misogynistic comments?

Originally Posted by mstone

Thanks for the biology lesson.

Originally Posted by bobringer


Imagine if I put an (R) next to my name too. Just the fact that I'm a Republican must make me racist as well as sexist in your minds, right? No right thinking people can be Republicans unless they are racist and sexist, right?

Originally Posted by anantksundaram

Stop baiting people with political nonsense. Most people here don't give a damn about whether you're (R) or (D) or (W)hatever, but only the fact that you see the need to wear it on your sleeve.