If you're an iPhone user, there's a very good chance you know more about Android a lot more than you know about the phone that Jobs built, because of the tide of haters who will inevitably tell you how much better their Galaxy is, and how with Apple you're just paying for the name. In truth, these people are doing you a service; providing you with invaluable (but not exactly impartial) "advice" that you can re-appropriate and use against the next person who says your iPhone is a glorified torch with a six minute iPhone. On the other side of the argument, information about the biggest tech company in the world is surprisingly limited within communities: they're fiercely protective of all information from their store logistics through to their stationary ordering process, which is a good thing for establishing and furthering the magical mythology that comes with every Apple product. We all sit back and enjoy precisely what Tim Cook and Jony Ive tell us, and then go all go and buy iPhones until there's a drawer in every house full of outdated technology. So with the latest Apple products now pulling millions of new and old Apple customers back to stores, now is the perfect time to peak behind the curtain a bit, as well as offering some handy usage tips for every iPhone owner, for when you eventually feel brave enough to take it out of its security protection...
20. Bono Infiltrated Your iPhone A Long Time Before You Noticed
If the chatter from technophiles recently is anything to go by, Bono and U2 are basically the worst people in the history of the world, because they had the disgusting audacity to give everyone a free album. Obviously that's not the whole story - the album is woeful, and it was basically ninja-ed onto everyone's iPhone whether you wanted it or not - but it's hilarious to think a mass scale attempt at goodwill ended up with the band actually losing some of their popularity. But Bono has been encamped on your iPhone and iPod a lot longer than the past couple of weeks, and most people didn't even bat an eyelash. In 2004, U2 were very close friends with Apple: they were part of an iPod commercial and Apple featured their entire discography (400 songs) as the first iTunes 'Digital Box Set,' as well as releasing a limited-edition 'U2 iPod'! for people who clearly like them too much. The hangover from that relationship remains, as Bono's likeness is still used for the Artist icon within iTunes.
19. Brazil Is The Worst Place To Buy An iPhone
Unfortunately for Apple, they can't market their phones in Brazil because someone else owns the trademark (IGM Electronica has named it since 2000), so you'd think they might lower their price to organically market the technology and kick-start a difficult market to win. Nope. Instead, the company have made Brazil the most expensive place to buy one, with a cost of almost twice that which US customers have to spend ($1222 compared to $719).