Vito Positano

iPhone 3G Speeds: More Cingular Mediocrity

Hi Macvangelist,
I am a Christian who is not offended by Joel West's or any Mac Evangelist calling the iPhone the Jesus Phone. I also like the humor of it all.

But you must admit that there are similarities between Jesus Christ and the Smartphone iPhone: Jesus is superior to the average person and the iPhone is superior to the average cell phone. Jesus saves when nothing else works, and so can the iPhone when other phones do not. While Christ as Jesus had not yet achieved his full potential until He became Christed, so the iPhone has not yet achieved full potential until it becomes connected to a better network. See?

And just as the wicked at first vilified and then crucified Christ, so the other cell phone companies vilified and are trying to destroy the iPhone. Jesus is the leader of Christendom just as the iPhone is the leader in Smartphonedom. Christ said something like, "Just as i have done, you will do better," so Jobs says something like, "just wait. The phone will become even better."

While I thank the Lord Jesus for everything He has done, and now I am free from sin, I also thank the iPhone for everything it has done, and now I am free from more dropped calls. *S*

Well, you can see that I made a good case for this Christian to call the iPhone the Jesus Phone.

After it achieves the promised improvements in capabilities and connectedness, I would even stop calling it a mere Jesus phone, and begin to call it the Christ phone, as in Christ the resurrected.

Therefore, to prematurely break one's relationship to the iPhone can be likened to prematurely break one's relationship to Jesus.