from my Android phone

[gusl]

I think that "iPhone" runs the risk of becoming a generic term, like "Palm Pilot" did, at least in my mind. It's just too catchy, and I keep wanting to say "my iPhone" even though I dislike their brand.

Apple doesn't want to risk losing the trademark, but apart from that, they surely benefit from the genericization of the term.

Comments

[easwaran.livejournal.com]

But "smartphone" somehow sounds nicer than "PDA" as the alternative. I also like the phrase "magic device".

[demarko (from livejournal.com)]

I like the phrase "pants internets"

I encourage the use of this phrase wherever I go, like a modern day Johnny Appleseed

[http://users.livejournal.com/_wirehead_/]

i feel like both "from my iPhone" and "from my Android phone" smack of pretension. why does the other person care what brand your phone is? my email sig just says "sent from my phone".

[gustavolacerda.livejournal.com]

My desire to say *-phone probably suggests that: (a) I still have a 20th century mindset, and (b) I am less attuned to pretension than you (also explains my lack of hatred for hipsters).
But yeah, in couple of years, people will probably say "phone" instead of "smartphone" or "iPhone"/etc.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_wirehead_/]

well i mean, if it wasn't a smartphone, you couldn't be sending email from it, right?

i think i am very attuned to (and averse to) branding in general. i've also been known to cut visible brand labels off of clothing before i feel comfortable wearing it.

[gustavolacerda.livejournal.com]

I have also become aware of (and averse to) branding, but only in the last 1 or 2 years or so. I don't want corporations using my body as a billboard.

I have long worn mostly plain colors, but never quite articulated the reasons why.