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That’s right. I have it. iPhone.
The forbidden fruit. The device that Steve Jobs doesn’t want me to have – yet. And I love it.
In fact, love seems to be the default reaction to this device when it is demonstrated to people – unless they’re h8rs!
Show them the camera. Pinch in and out. Rotate the phone and watch the picture automatically follow suit. Show them the iPod in coverflow mode. Show them that it has Youtube, mobile internet, and (surprise!) it’s also a phone.
Then explain to them what “Unlocking” is, and what “Jail-breaking” is, and why Steve Jobs loses sleep over it (well, not as much as AT&T since Jobs still gets his hardware cut from the deal.)
And they say, “It doesn’t even look like a phone.” And you tell them, “It’s not a phone. It’s a phone, a widescreen iPod with touch controls, and a break-through internet device.”
And they love it. And they love me. And I love iPhone.
Okay, I know what you’re thinking.
“But Aaron, what do you need a blog for?”
Dunno, just want one.
“But, you don’t do anything, and you don’t like talking to people about what you do do. What are you going to write about?”
Well… I don’t do “nothing”, for a start. That’s a little insulting. By definition I’m always doing something. Look it up. It’s in there. And most of it subconscious stuff like breathing and beating my heart, so, I can’t help but be doing something whether I like it or not.
“Okay, having established you don’t have anything eventful to write about, this isn’t just going to turn into one of those blogs where you’re like, ‘oooh, my thoughts are is so insightful and thought provoking! Please read them! And definitely leave me comments or perhaps a relevant song lyric from Bob Dylan or Neil Young, and as our ‘friendship’ grows, perhaps I can add you to my list of Facebook friends and we can socially network each other until we both collapse, panting, exhausted and unsatisfied…’”
No, definitely not. I can’t face Facebook and you can keep Myspace out of my space. You see what I’ve done there. And I’d love to hear Bob Dylan’s thoughts about artificial intelligence, NLP, or Linux, or the neurophysiology of comedy. That’d be rich. Which album was that again?
“So, Aaron, what do you need a blog for?”
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