The iPhone – It will destroy your soul.
If you look out the window of your vehicle on your way into work today you may notice that there are in fact pigs flying. It all started on Friday the 19th when my wife and I decided to stop by the local AT&T store to check out the iPhone that had recently gone on sale. After about an hour in of some healthy debating, figuring, and some decent salesmanship on the part of the guy helping us, we left the store with an iPhone each and a huge phone bill for next month. It was around this time that we also saw the first delicious piece of bacon flutter off into the great blue yonder. Since then the number of flying mammals has only increased as my attachment the iPhone strengthens.
Here is a short list of reasons why this phone is now the coolest thing in my pocket.
1. A mobile SSH client
2. I now own an mp3 player
3. I pretend to wave a lightsaber around whenever the urge strikes me
5. I can check my email/weather/time of day/schedule/shop on amazon/learn Japanese
6. I can do any of the above anywhere I get cell phone reception on a tiny device that fits comfortably in my pocket.
You may guess that this is my first time owning a phone that has a feature other than just calling people and storing phone numbers, and you would be right. However I think that I held out for the appropriate length of time since the iPhone is now affordable and has basically taken the place of the Dell mini I was hoping to purchase for my new mobile computing needs (sorry Dell). With the added bonus of using cell towers for data if needed, being smaller, and having the same amount of storage… it’s definitely better.
As for the drawbacks, besides the huge cell phone bill we will have every month people are sure to call me an Apple’s consumer bitch… Also my thumbs get sore from playing tap tap revenge 2 for too long.