CORAL RIDGE MALL—Verizon cell phone stores in Johnson County have been slammed with hundreds of customers swarming to get their hands on iPhones this month. The trendy smartphone was only available to AT&T customers until earlier this year.
But consumers are finding their new gadgets come with an unexpected accessory: Disappointment.
“As soon as I got home, I tried to log onto FarmVille but it wouldn’t load,” University of Iowa sophomore Maggie Knox said. “Am I seriously supposed to carry around my laptop all day so I can water my crops?”
Another new iPhone buyer said prices in the Apple App Store are too steep.
“Two bucks for a game? Even my grandma’s Nokia came with Snake…for free,” Ben O’Rourke told The Iowa Iowan.
Even people who know shit about technology report being let down.
“I developed an app to keep track of my homework assignments, but Apple wants me to pay them $99 to run it on my own phone,” UI computer science major Trenton Stroop said. “But it doesn’t really matter anymore — I applied light pressure to the phone and the screen shattered.”
