Thursday, February 08, 2007

The Apple Cell Phone: It's Still Not Enough To Make Me Happy

So last month Stephen Jobs made his big pitch for the new Apple I Phone. For technology fetishists, this is white, shiny manna from heaven:

All the power and sophistication of the world’s most advanced operating system — OS X — is now available on a small, handheld device that gives you access to true desktop-class applications and software, including rich HTML email, full-featured web browsing, and applications such as widgets, Safari, calendar, text messaging, Notes, and Address Book. iPhone is fully multi-tasking, so you can read a web page while downloading your email in the background. This software completely redefines what you can do with a mobile phone.


Yay, technology.

It's now official: there is no task in life people in the 18-27 demographic can accomplish without a cellphone.

As for me, I'm still not satisfied. I'm holding out for a phone that can allow me to surf the web and perform my own colonoscopy. I simply won't be happy until I can monitor my website and maintain my rectal health with a phone.

P.S. I've now joined the new blogger, and anyone can post comments once again.

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Hey Steve. Glad to see you've made it over to the New Blogger (is that anything like New Coke? Or New New York) in one piece.

I'm all talked out about the iPhone. I did a lot of media when Apple announced it. It's much ado about not a whole heck of a lot: a really, really expensive device with absolutely no business capability. Really loaded early adopters will be thrilled. The rest of us can sit back and wait for basic cell phones to morph into something a bit more full-featured.

Now, if they can guarantee that these things won't grow tumors the size of grapefruits behind my left ear, THEN I'll be impressed.
 
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