13.1.07

“You don’t want your phone to be an open platform,”

Bullshit.

Yes, yes you do.

“You need it to work when you need it to work. Cingular doesn’t want to see their West Coast network go down because some application messed up.”

Because phone networks are a series of tubes . And if some joker running Bittorrent on his iPhone clogs up those tubes....

Ahh this isn't even worth mocking. If I can't run 3rd party apps, I don't need an iPhone. It's not worth the asking price... it would need t be a lot cheaper, if nothing else.

Good thing Apple dropped the 'Computer' from their name. Wouldn't want to have mistaken the iPhone for a computer.

11.1.07

Geez, *thanks* Apple





So *now* where are my iPod dollars going? My 3G iPod is in pieces, my Palm ... well, it's a Palm.... and my Nokia going to need a new battery soon.

Don't you want my money?

*Whimpers*

9.1.07

The night before Stevenote

I'm a pretty recent switcher. I'm Mac-whipped, my 3G iPod is dead and my mobile phone battery is developing CBF syndrome. I've been tracking the iPhone rumors. But the pre-Stevenote buzz is much crazier than it seemed to be last year. We've moved from the barest whiff of an iPhone rumour to a 'mobile computing device that's the first of its kind' (Noooooooo, John Markoff never exaggerates) . Ending in this sort of scenario.

How do you manage expectations before an event like this, with a massive, distributed rumor mill running on the barest whiff of objective evidence? Do you try to scale back your expectations? Probably not, because it feels inherently disapointing, and human nature is to get worked up over silly things. Remove the pomp and ceremony and gossip from life, and things are pretty damn dull.

No, the only way to deal with likely disapointment is to blow your expectations out to LUDICROUS levels. Push it so far it's actually funny. It's like imagining that skeevy asshole ex or old boss (the one who used to 'jingle the change in his pocket' far more than was comfortable) is not only doing better than you, they're the silent third partner at Google, they have a lovely submissive daytime soap star wife, North Shore real estate, and a model they are also banging (either gender) while on 'business' in Dubai.
So using this mental judo on yourself, it's not just an iPhone, it's a Seti node that allows you to speak to advanced civilsations, Enter The Matrix (thanks to Google), it shoots video at HD at 600 frames per second, a wireless Skype phone that somehow isn't a COMPLETELY RETARDED idea, and it does all *that* with a completely intuitive interface that scrolls like butter.

When you're done sniggering at that, you remind yourself that yes, it's just a trade show keynote, and actually, the Nanophone you actually get is kind of nice (though not really for you).

1.1.07

Happy New Bear!


Happy New Bear!
Originally uploaded by MidBlueMac.
A spontaneous Druid bear dance on the bridge at Auberdine. No, I don't have a good explanation for this.