2 posts tagged “iphone”
I have two iPods. An iPod Photo which I've had for about two and a half years and a silver Shuffle which I got pretty much on the day of release last November. I love them both for different reasons.
The 45 Gig Photo means I can take loads and loads of music with me in my day to day life without having to think what I'm going to listen to before I leave home. (My first MP3 player was 128 Mb and held two and a half albums worth of music. It was fantastic at the time, but without iTunes to fill it, it was laborious and I just got sick of hearing the same songs after a while).
I have a whole list of Podcasts that I regularly listen to, that are automatically transferred to my iPod whenever I plug it in to my computer, so that's cool.
I use my Shuffle when I'm going for a walk or I'm at work outside office hours and I need something to lighten my mood. It usually does the trick and it's so small and light it takes no effort to have it pinned on my clothing.
I have been very satisfied with them both, until two weeks ago, when the new Nanos were announced and my cousin went out and bought one and I'm jealous as hell! The form factor is very solid and I understand that the resolution of the screen is so good that even viewing video at that small size is not a problem. Now I could justify a purchase as my other iPods don't do video and I would use it just for that I think. But what's going to happen when the iPhone is introduced to the UK sometime in the next few weeks?
How will I go on to justify that purchase?
The 45 Gig Photo means I can take loads and loads of music with me in my day to day life without having to think what I'm going to listen to before I leave home. (My first MP3 player was 128 Mb and held two and a half albums worth of music. It was fantastic at the time, but without iTunes to fill it, it was laborious and I just got sick of hearing the same songs after a while).
I have a whole list of Podcasts that I regularly listen to, that are automatically transferred to my iPod whenever I plug it in to my computer, so that's cool.
I use my Shuffle when I'm going for a walk or I'm at work outside office hours and I need something to lighten my mood. It usually does the trick and it's so small and light it takes no effort to have it pinned on my clothing.
I have been very satisfied with them both, until two weeks ago, when the new Nanos were announced and my cousin went out and bought one and I'm jealous as hell! The form factor is very solid and I understand that the resolution of the screen is so good that even viewing video at that small size is not a problem. Now I could justify a purchase as my other iPods don't do video and I would use it just for that I think. But what's going to happen when the iPhone is introduced to the UK sometime in the next few weeks?
How will I go on to justify that purchase?
I've waited for this time forever. Well ok, not forever, since about 1991.
That was the year I bought my first Macintosh and before that I had bought the past few months issues of MacUser which came out every two weeks and buzzed myself into a frenzy.
That Mac was my first ever computer. I'd never even used Windows and at the time it was Windows 3.1. My brother was a big computer guy, a real geek, and I mean that in the nicest possible sense. But he built computers. In his room. He used DOS and then graduated to Windows 3.1 just around the time that I bought my first Mac.
Gradually as time went by, I realised that this computer was a fantastic bit of kit (and if you're really lucky I'll post the spec at a future date). I'm now on my 5th Mac, although I did buy a MacPlus but just for novelty value (and I still have it!)
For years I have been a Mac evangelist and have introduced many people to the machines, even purchasing second hand models from eBay for them (and then being there for tons of support!). Lots of people aren't even aware of the existence of a computer that doesn't run Windows (or Linux etc.) and when I've looked surprised at them and shown them the light, they've just looked at me as if I was wasting my time using such an unpoplular Operating System.
For years I've spouted on about what an innovative company Apple is and believe me, before Steve Jobs came back to Apple, it had some dire times. I used to compare Windows and Macintosh and wonder why anybody would struggle with Micro$oft when Apple did it so much more intuitively. It's been hard. It really has. Sometimes I felt I was shouting into a strong wind and no-one actually heard my words.
But now, well now is completely different. MacWorld SF, biggest Apple event in the calendar, everyone is hanging on the keynote speech so that Steve can introduce some futuristic bit of kit that we daren't even dream about.
Everyone wants to know. Everyone is interested. Everyone is talking about it. Everyone.
And it's great! I've been reading loads of stuff on the internets and listening to podcasts, watching vidcasts and the buzz is brilliant! The iPhone has caused so much interest in what used to be the most unlikely places (British press) that I know Apple has, at last arrived.
What I'm really trying to say is:
"I told you so!"
