REFUSE.

[breakinglight11]

The most frustrating thing about my new iPhone is that it doesn't have a function that will let it vibrate for a few rings before the ringtone kicks in. My old phone could do that, and I loved it. Why doesn't the iPhone have this? Why?

I thought of a way around it, though. Apparently there's a way on GarageBand, if you have a Mac, to cut any song you want into a ringtone. I could design a file that had several seconds of silence in the beginning before it launched into the actual song so that it would buzz silently for a bit before it actually started making sound. That would be a reasonable facsimile of that function.

But no. I refuse. I refuse to do this.

I REFUSE. 

Why do I refuse? It's the principle of the thing. I should NOT have to be a COMPUTER PROGRAMMER playing TRICKS on a PIECE OF PERIPHERAL MACHINERY to make my STATE OF THE ART BRAND-NEW PHONE that I paid HUNDREDS OF DOLLARS for perform an OBVIOUS FUNCTION that my EIGHT-YEAR-OLD PIECE OF JUNK PHONE could do. 

That this is the state of affairs, Apple should be ASHAMED of themselves.

ASHAMED, I say.

Comments

[morethings5.livejournal.com]

Oh man my new phone also doesn't do that. What the hell is the deal. It can vibrate, it can ring, why can't it do both?

[bleemoo.livejournal.com]

To be fair, I've had many phones, and none of them have been able to do that. It is a good idea, and I see why that's frustrating. But it's not a feature that's common across most phones.

[breakinglight11.livejournal.com]

Yeah, you're right, I'm just frustrated because of the three things I really wanted this phone to do--buzz then ring, sync my google calendar, and let me use an image from my webmail --none of them worked quite right. Of course all the stuff I cared less about works fine. But frankly I'm typing this respponse on it on the phone at the airport right now, so I guess I shouldn't complain.

[laurion]

Using Garageband or Audacity to insert the silence isn't really that hard, and is lightyears away from being a computer programmer. (Actually, many computer programmers would be just as new to audio editing as you)

I work in Garageband all the time, and would be happy to do the edits for you. I'll make you a ringtone out of any song you want.

That said, yes, it's a feature that some phones have, and when you have it, you get used to it, and want to keep having it. As to why every phone doesn't have it? Maybe it is a patented feature that some manufacturers own/license. Stupid patents.