New York Philharmonic performance interrupted by ringing Apple iPhone

2. trin posted on 14 Jan 2012, 16:22 3

Well..there you have it...those 2012 doomsday Aztec..uh Myan..um them calender makin mofo's was right ya'll. End of the world!

3. clevername posted on 14 Jan 2012, 16:25 8

At first I thought this was an onion article.

5. ivanko34 posted on 14 Jan 2012, 16:32 11

A shame

6. cupcake posted on 14 Jan 2012, 17:12 6

This is terrible!! I hope they got kicked out- or banned.

7. jgerboc posted on 14 Jan 2012, 17:26 5

Sad story that someone was THAT inconsiderate of the orchestra, conductor, the audience, and the arts. But, you would also have thought the call would have gone to voicemail after 2 rings....damn Verizon... :)

9. protozeloz posted on 14 Jan 2012, 18:22 5

Why is this news? Phones ring on movies and musicals and orchestra yes its annoying and the phone owner is dumb but its a phone ringing, why is this news ? Slow weekend maybe?

11. seeds posted on 14 Jan 2012, 19:16 7

sue that ringtone because interrupted...
LOL

13. Hildy posted on 14 Jan 2012, 21:14 0

Siri prefers Wagner to Mahler.

15. JSern posted on 14 Jan 2012, 22:20 10

iPhones. They ruin everything

16. Slammer posted on 14 Jan 2012, 22:52 6

Ok. I've seen enough here.

Anything to keep Apple in public eyes. As another poster pointed out, owners of cellphones in general have been historically ongoing with problems like this.

So why mention "iPhone"? Why not say the event was interrupted by a phone?

Doesn't the media ever get tired of using their position to schlep this product?

John B.

17. Dcfurious posted on 14 Jan 2012, 23:18 0

Another hard hitting story by CNN. Great job guys! I'm extremely glad I know about this!

18. belovedson posted on 15 Jan 2012, 00:56 0

post the dudes face. i would love to see the next samsung commercial regarding this incident.

its often the iphone going off in moments it shouldn't whenever im at a public venue.. theatres, meetings, etc

19. KIANO posted on 15 Jan 2012, 01:02 0

How about an auto-Silent-on/off at time or location desired.
Or perhaps... Is there an app for that when attending a Philharmonic?

21. AppleConspiracy posted on 15 Jan 2012, 02:31 4

The point is that it was Apple iPhone, not some ordinary cell phone that would have the same effect on concert. Because it's iPhone, this is big news, that must be heard all over the Globe.

PhoneArena, you also belong to Apple Conspiracy.

23. alpinejason posted on 15 Jan 2012, 05:46 0

yeah its like those ghetto hood rat people who you see in public when their phone starts ringing and they have it in their hand all the while they are looking around to see who is looking at them.while they do absolutely nothing to answer or stop the ringing.some people are such low life piece of s**t that they need attention that bad.its so sad but true.this is a perfect example of that.get a life people.no one really cares about this.

27. PAPINYC posted on 15 Jan 2012, 09:27 2

There should be a "Go Directly to Jail. Do Not Pass Go, Do Not Collect" law, regardless of what kind of phone, i.e., legitimate Android Smartphone, Krackenberry phone, flip phone or i(Dumb)phone. Hell, there's a law for everything else!

Had I been in attendance I would have demAnded an iRefund.

30. JC557 posted on 15 Jan 2012, 13:56 0

The story is that the person with the iPhone had just gotten the phone as a gift and he didn't really know how to set functions on the phone and was unaware that his alarm was set to go off. The conductor spoke with the phone's owner and the owner was in no way rude, just a bit clueless about his new technological gift.

Thankfully there most of the people there had class to accept the conductor's halting of the performance (in some pieces silence plays a part) and applauded him for it. It's was quite a story in NYC but they didn't really mention the iPhone until the middle of their story (the default ring no less).

31. gallitoking posted on 15 Jan 2012, 14:39 0

Lol Androids were not allowed.. due to their cheap plastc.. they were sent to a nearby corner... and check for the weather on their widgets...

35. 530gemini posted on 15 Jan 2012, 15:33 0

Everyone was probably relieved to hear a phone ringing. A much needed icebreaker to a boring performance :)

Now where are those fandroids that said that the iphone's speakers are inaudible? Lol.

40. Paden posted on 17 Jan 2012, 20:33 0

A phone ringing during a performance of any kind is hardly news.