We never thought it was. What is your point?

Huh? I think only you think of it that way. The iPhone is never thought to be as an exclusive product. The sale of the iPhone 3G on its first day reflects that, it got to a million unit sale in less than a week. If it is exclusive, then it would be like the shitty Vertu or those diamond encrusted Nokia 8800.

Are you a cheerleader for everything exclusive then? Then stick to those two models I've just mentioned and go proclaim "my phone more exclusive than yours" some place else. The more iPhones gets into more people's hands, the better. That way, proliferation of the Apple's business model of distributing and trend of using apps, will become a norm.

If an Indon keje contract gets to use this iPhone to a good use in his daily life, I say more power to him, we should encourage it. It is not about whether the Indon keje contract have the purchasing power to get one, it is more of a case of the "Indon keje contract" is willing to learn and make full use of his iPhone that is the case here. More and more people get the iPhone because it is a fashion statement, not for its multi-faceted capabilities. Now, THAT is a reason to laugh at. Perhaps you subscribe to this mental state of mind too?

Why the sudden impression that the iPhone NEEDS that exclusivity image, that is what intrigues me. I dont give a damn if a chatty auntie is using her iPhone while she goes shopping at a wet parket, or a mamak worker uses his while serving customer at a Nasi Kandar joint, as long as they use it as it is intended, and NOT as a fashion statement. I certainly dont.

If anything, my iPhone is rather EXCLUSIVE in the fact that I PERSONALLY have loaded it up with MY OWN movies, songs and fun and/or productive apps. Your iPhone may look like my iPhone, but the content of my iPhone will never be the same as your iPhone. NOW THAT's EXCLUSIVITY! Same thing applies to everyone else's iPhone.

So big deal about that "Indon keje contract" crap. In fact, I'd applaud and cheer him if he uses it to timbang air, or to get level gradation on his building, that IS a productive and useful use of the iPhone. What, just because a person is perceived as "Indon", hence poor/ low caste society, does not give him the right to use an iPhone?