>>>I don't own a brown jacket
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>>>Why would I spend all that extra for an iPhone
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>>Duh!.
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>>Because Steve Jobs says you should and Steve Jobs is the god of cool.
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>>Because the cool guy on the Apple commercials will disdain you if you don't get a cool phone. ( I think he has a app for that )
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>Because you can get them in exclusive trendy colors (the baseline for Apple marketing for the last 2 decades).
And because it is common knowledge among techno-nerds that ostentatiously fiddling with your cool cell phone in public places will pull chicks like a magnet !
( especially if you have an app that lists fun facts about Lord of the Rings or Star Wars ... that kind of stuff makes women *hot* )
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