I have a number of contacts that apparently own iPhones, who send me email from said device from time to time. How do I know? They tell me each and every time they fire off an email from that very device (although I suppose anyone could append “Sent from my iPhone” to their communiqués, regardless of where they emanated).
Now, I realize that the iPhone, by default, does this. And I hope, and assume, that the reason these people do not turn off this “feature” is because of one of the following reasons:
Excepting these reasons, and perhaps others that I am not cognizant of because of my inexperience with the device (oops, I just outed myself; you guessed it, I don’t own an iPhone – oh, the horror!!!), I see no reason to keep this message as your signature so that your iPhone continues displaying this message other than to try to look good to others. I don’t doubt that there are some (hopefully none I know personally) who privately relish that little message at the end of their emails. If your intent is to do just such a thing, I can honestly and truly say: I really don’t care – if anything, I now think less of you than I did before. Anyone who lets their possessions define who they are needs a lot of counseling (trust me, I need the same but for other reasons – as you may have already guessed).
So, if your goal is to rub in the faces of your friends the fact that you own an iPhone and they do not, why not go further than that simple message? What about something like:
Sent from my iPhone, from the front seat of my Porsche 911 GT3, from the island of Kauai, while I am sitting next to my supermodel girlfriend.
I don’t know, I get so tired of people and their need to tell everyone what material possessions they own. If it were not so destructive, it would be hilarious; however, it is destructive, thus it is only mildly amusing. I think I am going to start appending the following to my email messages:
Sent from my arrogant, self-righteous high-horse.
That ought to set things straight!