iPhone 4 for the Family Man

(It's time to get this jive back in the game after such a hiatus!!! But the KindaIntense crew has been anything but restful)

Apple is always one to take that big step into the future and the iPhone 4 proves that. But what can you add to the phone that already has everything?? What more can it provide?? With the world at your finger tips, you can communicate with your work, business, class contacts; check your stocks, book your hotels, check and write your emails. So what seems to be neglected here? How about the family of the person doing all the traveling?! You forget that there are other people to talk to other than business partners and that there are matters to tend to other than work. So how is Apple covering this?? VIDEO PHONE! HAZZAH!!

With the video phone option you can literally look into the eyes of the people you've left behind so that you can earn that big fat paycheck! Now, you may be wondering why I'm taking such a stance on this function? Well, just check out the advertisements! Each commercial for this feature is a situation in which a father/ husband figure is communicating with his family:

1) The man showing his new grandson to his father

2) The father trying to cheer up his daughter from her post-braces-installation depression

3) The man being told by his significant other that she's pregnant

The first example I can excuse because people live far apart for a lot of reasons. But I like the touch that it shows an elderly man using the phone. This symbolizes that it's an easy phone to opperate for all ages. But the next two are just sad. Clearly this guy (by "this" guy I mean the two men from each ad) is not going to be home any time soon. Making news of a pregnancy would be a great "Welcome Home" surprise, but clearly this man is on a trip that will keep him from home until the child's 4th birthday. But with the video phone option, he can watch his child grow up without actually having to be there! YAY!! And the daughter with the braces just brings tears to my eyes. Is she to rely only on the three minutes once a week she gets to see her dad on the phone to keep her happy through such a difficult time? Ya, she's going to be messed up when she gets older. But imagine how much worse it would be WITHOUT the video chat?? 

I will give props to Apple this time, though, because they're being honest. Why else would you be using this feature for things other than reletionship maintenance (family, friends, lovers) and/ or visual acts of perversion (which we dare not go)?

The iPhone 4 is for the true family man who spends most of the year away from his family!