Other mobile phone makers find this Halloween costume terrifying

Here’s a tip for would-be trick-or-treaters hoping for a big score at the Michaels homestead next Halloween. Go the extra mile with your costume. Anyone can slap on a pre-fabricated mask and call it a day, but if it looks like your costume required brainstorming, planning, and a rigorous process of peer-review, then the least I can do is make sure some extra candy winds up in your sack. Better still if you can come up with a costume that appeals to my assorted interests and hobbies.

So you can imagine the young lady in the upper left earned herself a fistful of candy when she showed up at my door Wednesday night dressed as an iPhone. You can’t see it in the thumbnail image, but she even went to the trouble of including an AT&T logo in the upper left corner of her phone’s interface — so it’s clear she didn’t dress up as an unlocked iPhone.

A cursory search on Flickr reveals that the iPhone was the costume choice for more than one reveler this Halloween — and that includes trick-or-treaters of the four-legged variety.

So how about you? Did you open the door to any kid-sized iPhones demanding candy last night?

Category: Musings

Posted by Philip Michaels on Nov 1 2007, 5:42 PM ET

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