“The iPhone is the most sophisticated, outlook-challenging piece of electronics to come along in years. It does so many things so well and all so pleasurably.”
~ David Pogue, US technology writer as Apple’s new iPhone hits US shelves June 2007.
I’ve hedged on this post for a while. You see, I really don’t want to be that guy. I’m rather private about such things, and don’t think anyone needs to know what type of phone I slip in my pocket. One of the first things I did the day I got the phone was go into the settings so I could remove the little thingy that says, “sent from my iPhone” and sent an email to Dave asking if it showed up.
Thing is, I’ve been wanting an iPhone since they were only a whisper. As you may know, I have a borderline fetish for shiny products made by Apple and back when the iPhone existed only as rumor, I kept tab on the blather daily. I watched Steve Jobs give the keynote announcing Cupertino’s newest wonder five minutes after it went live, then made Cindy watch it with me later that night.
Unfortunately for me, the iPhone over delivered. It was far more phone than I could ever justify at the time. I ran a preschool and needed to check my email once a day at the most. Besides, I was a half solar system away from being able to afford a $500 phone, the cost for awesome when first unveiled. The last two and a half years have been kind to my needs. Now the iPhone is only $200 and I check my email in between blinks.
Anyone who knows me well has seen me get overhyped on something only to get woefully deflated once I experience it. This happens often with movies, but holds true with many other things as well. After a year and a half waiting for an iPhone, was it even possible for it to live up to my expectations?
I don’t think there’s ever been anything without a beating heart that’s managed to impress me more. The iPhone isn’t just the most remarkable piece of technology I’ve ever personally seen, I believe it is in many ways the future.
There’s something inevitable about the iPhone. It just works, and I believe certain elements of the gadget will not only make their way into the design of nearly every future phone to follow, but in operating systems in general. When I use the iPhone, it is easy for me to imagine Apple’s followup to OS X as a touch screen operating system based on the roots of everything the company has learned in designing their pocket device from the ground up.
I LOVE that everything on my desktop is synced in my pocket. I love that I have full access to every document I own at any time. But more than that, I love that iPhone knows how to volley with my brain. The iPhone operates on instinct and that is a remarkable thing.
I do believe there is a danger in having such a powerful tool in society’s pocket, but I’ll talk about that another time, perhaps next week. For now my iPhone is still shiny and I want to wax poetic as long as I can. I could go on and on (and to be honest, on and on some more) but you’ve been patient enough for today.
Tomorrow I’ll tell a story about how I got to use it’s awesomeness to save my hide last week in real life.
Writer Dad
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