How to get a new iPhone?

How can I persuade my dad to get me the new iPhone?

• So in able to understand my predicament, let me tell you a bit about myself. My name is Whittley, I'm sixteen, and I am generally a good kid. I don't have sex, I don't drink, and I also do not do drugs. I don't throw parties and stuff like that. In fact, I'm actually very well behaved. I go to an early college school where I take classes on a college campus, and I am earning my associates degree as well as my High school diploma. So as you can imagine, I don't wreck havoc. The new iPhone came out, and I'm not much for Apple products, but I really really want the new iPhone. My dad has a good job and he gets retirement, so affording it wouldn't be a problem. The one problem however, would have to be my step mom. She is VERY controlling. Or at least she tries to be. She will literally look for things to scold me for. It's pretty much a Cinderella situation except I don't have to clean anything I didn't dirty. I am going to add this part just because it makes me angry. My step mom has the iTouch 3, iTouch 4, iPad 2, and she just got the new iPhone. So I don't really think it's fair that she won't let me have an iPhone when she has all these expensive products. Okay, back to relevant information. I dad is a rather easy person to talk to- just as long as you don't talk to him around his wife. Some days when I get out of school I will go to the library and study until he's done with his college classes then we will talk on the car ride home (about 40 minutes). I guess he doesn't tell his terrible wife the things we talk about. I figure that would be the best time to ask him, but something that big, he's going to have to talk to her about it. She doesn't want me to have one because she doesn't want me to have that freedom. She actually looks up my records of who I text and when. I She's SUPER controlling about that. It's insane. I would ask my mom for it, but she's short on the money side so I don't really want to ask her for that. I also find it hard to ask people for things. Even asking if I can get a drink at gas station is a little uncomfortable for me. So does anyone have any good ideas about how to ask my dad for an iPhone? Although I doubt I will because my step mom has some kind of personal vendetta with me. I actually think I bitched a little too much... oh well. Ideas?

• Answer:

  you have to give it time...just because your step-mom has all these fancy, new cool gear doesn't mean you have to copy her. I met this new friend and he still has those phones where you have to press those buttons and its basically the first mobile that came out and now nobody has them...but he doesn't care what other people think its because it still works...i have a touch phone and get tired of it for a few weeks but i don't really care because i have to wait 2 years till my plan is dead and i can get a new phone...i get jealous too...maybe thats why...jealously is not really an answer...iphone are cool but you get bored of them...and its easily addicted etc...i could rage on forever and ever about not getting an iphone but altogether its better to save money for other options than just for one thing