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by uriel 5360 days ago
> However those iFanboys polluted all true tech discussions, by bringing such constructs to tech discussions like 'I love my ' , 'I browse the internet with my ...', 'Non-iphone users stink, or are poor etc', to further enlarge the status-widget.

Don't forget one of the worst forms of iPollution: "Sent from my iFoo". Why should people reading your messages care?

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My old Blackberrys did this well before the iPhone.
Agreeed. The reason was to ask to be excused for misspellings and sloppy abbreviations in the text of the message.
Even if others did it before, it is still an annoying line noise.