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Curious: What does the day-and-night-iPhone reference mean?

[Edit: Genuine thanks for the explanation everyone, but boy am I sorry I asked.]

“I have two iPhones, one for day and one for the night. When the day phone runs out, the night phone takes over. I never have to worry.”

It's an advanced Self-Important Internet Dude move. Best not imitated by amateurs.

Why is this comment thread on top?

Because people thought it was helpful. Perhaps you should apply to the content police academy.

Do be fair, he is clearly saying that he uses second phone when battery in the first one runs out.

http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/my-phone/2013/03/dave-mori...

An excellent Tumblr post breaking down that Vanity Fair interview: http://jesuschristsiliconvalley.tumblr.com/post/46539276780/...

I never caught the [case] thing. Amazing.

Silicon valley now rivals Hollywood at creating entitled, pampered douchebags. Thank you that anonymous blogger on tumbler at so skillfully capturing that in one brilliant work of deconstruction.

What a sad state we find ourselves in. The past decades were by no means free from such poisonous personalities (see: Tyco), but we seem to have reached a whole new level. I guess humility doesn't pay the bills anymore.

In his defense, he probably said 'back' because he has a skin like this [1]. I wouldn't call that a case, either.

1. http://www.jackbacks.com/collections/parts/products/iphone5-...

"In his defense"

Looks like you missed the best part.

I feel I'm beyond the age where I can get away with saying/writing things like

"Almost every line is something I want to print out, frame and then take a shit on"

but by golly if it isn't entertaining to read someone else do it.

You can say anything when you're anonymous and don't have any repercussions to deal with. (like this tumblr is)

That interview can't be real. Surely he was satirically making light the whole bro-grammer meme? Right? Hard for me to believe you can condense so much "douchiness" without it being in jest and intentional.

it's a reference to a segment on the Accidental Tech Podcast (hosted by Marco, John Siracusa and Casey Liss) where at one point they brought up a guy (sorry I can't recall the name) who has two iPhones: one for day use and another for night use. The idea is separation of private info and work info. IIRC Marco could see some merit to it, but certainly couldn't justify the price for himself.

http://atp.fm/

I bought a Samsung something-or-other Duos so that I could have a business number and my private number route to the same phone. It takes two SIM cards.

OK that is cool. I would have gone with Google Voice or some other proxy, but dual SIMs is awesome. Can you manage do-not-disturb and ringtones/notifications per SIM?

Yes, you can.

I'd use Google Voice if it was available in Australia.

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