Drooling over iPhone
This is bad. I haven’t experienced gear lust like this since I was researching my laptop. I have been looking forward to yesterdays WWDC for quite some time. It was widely speculated that in his keynote address Steve Jobs would release details about the new iPhone.
I have come to accept the fact that I am an all out Apple Fanboy. It all started when my friend Millman gave me his old 1st generation iPod. It was beat up and scratched, and wouldn’t hold a charge for very long. But it was mine. My very first iPod. I now use it as a paper weight in my office…
My addiction got worse with the black 8GB 2nd generation iPod Nano my wife gave me for my birthday a few years back. That thing has gone EVERYWHERE with me since the moment I opened it. It’s in the truck with me, at home in it’s dock, in my office, and most importantly at Wegmans.
By the way I highly recommend getting yourself a set of Shure in ear headphones like mine. They block out the world and the ONLY thing you hear is your music. You can’t even hear the shopping cart wheels rattling on the tile in the produce section. SUPER cool.
My fascination with Apple then took another leap. Last year, I was at the breaking point with my old PC. My old Soyata had lived a long life, and it was REALLY starting to show it’s age. Let’s put it this way, it came with Windows 98 installed on it. That is until I “borrowed” a friend’s copy of XP. I’m not really sure where he got it, but I’m confident it didn’t ship from Microsoft on blank CDRs with “XP” written in Sharpie marker.
When it got to the point that I couldn’t install software on the machine because it didn’t meet the minimum specs of modern software, I gave in. I have the good habit of thoroughly researching anything that involves spending an amount of money with a comma in it, so I went to work. After about 3 months of reading, discussing, and drooling over gear I finally had my answer. Apple’s oh-so-very-cool MacBook Pro. It is absolutely the best piece of geek I have EVER put my hands on. By the way, every single video you’ve seen on my blog was produced with the software that came with my Mac.
So that brings us up to yesterday. As I got stuff done around the office I was watching the live blog updates of the WWDC. I’ve long known that I will indeed someday own an iPhone. I’ve also had enough experience to know that you NEVER buy the first generation of any new fangled gadget. My first digital camera was a 1 mega pixel (ONE!) Kodak. It was HUGE, it ate 4 AA batteries every few hours, and cost close to $500. It now sits in the junk drawer in my kitchen. I thought about giving it to my daughter to play with, but it wouldn’t turn on. She got her own camera instead.
I’ve been holding off on getting an iPhone until they worked out the first generation bugs. I’ve also been holding out for faster data speeds, 3rd party applications, and GPS.
Well…it happened.
The new iPhone has all the stuff I’ve been waiting for. But I can’t make the leap quite yet. My friend Jeff brought up a good point that they haven’t increased the memory over 16GB yet. That’s bound to happen a few months after the first run. I also have a problem with the fact that you can only use one cell carrier. Most of my friends and coworkers are on one service, iPhone is on another service. I’m gonna have to buy lots of minutes if I do this.
I’ll let ya know when it happens. Believe me, I won’t be able to talk about anything else.
I’m obsessed. So obsessed that I fell asleep on my couch last night, Mac on my lap…watching this.
I’m sure I had sweet dreams about Steve Jobs, GPS tracking, and accelerometers.
Fanboy, out.
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