If you were planning to get an iPhone, like a lot of tech people are (I would like to get one, but the price is not very nice), now there is one more hoop to jump through. As if $499 out of your pocket wasn’t enough, Apple now wants you to join their huge digital distribution service, therefore ensuring that one of their products will beget another, as the iPod, video iPod, AppleTV, and upcoming iLife all have wonderful relationships with iTunes.
All this means is that before you can use your iPhone, you must activate it, which is true for most if not all cell-phones. The only difference is that Apple wants you to have an iTunes account. Okay, so this is no big deal, but it is a strange request nonetheless.
Apple puts it another way:
To set up your iPhone, you’ll need an account with Apple’s iTunes Store. If you already have an iTunes account, make sure you know your account name and password. If you don’t have an account, you should set one up now to save time later. To set up an account, launch iTunes, select the iTunes Store, and click the Sign In button in the upper right corner of iTunes. Sign in and you’re ready to go.
While I cannot say for certain whether or not I will be buying an iPhone, this may or may not deter me (vague, huh?). Basically, it would be nice if I could just walk into a store, buy the iPhone for the handsome price of half a grand, activate it with a calling plan, then walk out of the store and call my friend and make fun of them for not having an iPhone. If I have to set up an iTunes account, that is just one more thing between me and my smug sense of self-worth and keeping up with the Jones attitude.
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3 Responses to “If you want to use your precious iPhone, you must have an awesome iTunes account”
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June 15th, 2007 at 2:20 am
Puh, nice try. But I have seen user designs much more worth being produced than this baby…
June 18th, 2007 at 6:03 am
Wow, hate much? Just be ready to eat those words in six months when it’s the hottest thing on the planet. Love it or hate it, it’s going to blow up. Just go have fun with your clunky blackberry interface and keep your apple hate to yourself.
The iTunes account isn’t going to make a single bit of difference for Steve’s intended market. Most iPhone buyers are going to have an iPod and an iTunes account already, anyway. Besides, iTunes is the best deal in digital music, by far, especially since the inclusion of DRM-free music and video. There are also rumors that the iTunes setup is [i]in leiu[/i] of a standard activation, which would make it much easier to activate than most do-it-yourself systems, though not much easier at a cingular store. I’m going to bet that if you get your phone at AT&T, they’re probably trained to help you set that up before you leave the store. I’d hope so, anyway.
June 18th, 2007 at 7:46 am
They’re not…they know less than nothing