Serendipity is More Than Just a Tourist Trap

You should know the writer works at JetBlue. This typically wouldn't be brought up here at iPhone and the City, but, once again, within the same week I start my blog, worlds collide, and this happens:



It's a great commercial and all, and after watching this, I couldn't help but think about how much iPhone has really positioned itself to a mobile market:



Of course, paying attention to sexy news sources like The Consumerist, I found that stupid commericals like that one only yield the following results:

On one of the frequent-flier blogs, an airline pilot writes that only moments after informing his passengers of a weather-related ground hold affecting their flight to Memphis, Tenn., he and his captain received a call from one of the flight attendants. Seems an iPhone-wielding customer in the back had a challenge. "Some guy with an iPhone says the weather is good," the flight attendant says, "and wants to know what the real reason is for the delay. Is something wrong with the plane?

Reportedly, the captain responded with a public address announcement that was sharp enough to elicit audible laughter from the cabin.

"If the passenger with the iPhone would be kind enough," he began, "to use it to check the weather at our alternate airport, then calculate our revised fuel burn due to being rerouted, then call our dispatcher to arrange our amended release, then make a call to the nearest traffic control center to arrange a new slot time (among all the other aircraft carrying passengers with iPhones), we'll then be more than happy to depart. Please ring your call button to advise the flight attendant and your fellow passengers when you deem it ready and responsible for this multimillion-dollar aircraft and its 84 passengers to safely leave."

The full article is here.

At the end of the day, I couldn't help but wonder if the iPhone was making an already demanding and increasingly bitchy techno-fashionista even worse.