iPhone, oh how I will love thee
See this hand? It is not mine. And despite my dual love for Apple products and really, really smart phones, I don’t think I’ll be among the iPhone-eratti for quite some time. I’m resisting the temptation to buy this little gyroscope-equipped, multi-touch-screen operated, brilliant resolution-equipped global multimedia communicator because I’ve matured just enough to know that the second generation will be worth the wait.
Thanks to my sister urging my parents to give me an iPod for my birthday I was the first kid on the block with one. And I loved it – but it wasn’t a year before my neighbors’ iPods had touchscreen wheels, and then the color screens, and then size shrunk by a factor of six. I’m looking forward to the same advancements in the iPhone.
I’m holding out for a faster wireless network, an even better keyboard interface, GPS capabilities, and whatever bug fixes the earliest adopters discover for me. To them I say, congratulations on your new phone and thanks.
Oh, and I have one request of the Apple developers – can you make the little gyroscope generate electricity to charge the wonder device while its in my pocket so I never need to plug it in? That’d definately make it worth the wait.
July 3rd, 2007 at 1:14 pm
I hear, be strong! Stay tough! We’ll ALL have them in three years, just like the pod, you early adopter, you!
July 3rd, 2007 at 1:15 pm
I hear you, be strong! Stay tough! We’ll ALL have them in three years, just like the pod, you early adopter, you!
July 3rd, 2007 at 3:04 pm
Rush- I found out about iPods LONG after the initial craze, and although I can’t believe I lived as long as I did without one, my spiffy 80GB, video playing baby was worth it! Let everyone figure out the kinks for us and then we’ll get twice as much for half the price. I hope.
July 19th, 2007 at 2:21 pm
Oh, and one other thing: There’s no way to ‘tether’ the iPhone to a computer and use it’s EDGE network on my Mac. That’s a major bummer.