Think Differenter
When Apple introduced the iPod and later the iPhone, the slogan “Think Different” became less iconic and more ironic. Everyone and their mother had an Apple product, and it wasn’t because of any technological marvel, but more-so fantastic marketing coupled with a simple, dumbed down, but user-friendly interface.
I’ve given in to the hype. Not because I’m in love with Apple products or because I think the iPhone is the greatest thing ever, but because I needed a new phone, and the new iPhone seemingly fit the bill. This is my first Apple product, and I still think Win7 is one of the best operating systems around (Microsoft takes too much crap from Apple fanboys who have no idea how to use Linux, but brag about how OSX is based on it). That being said, I have to say that apart from a few annoyances, this thing is pretty impresive. In fact I’m composing this post entirely on my iPhone with the (so far, so good) WordPress app. The keyboard is great once you get used to the fact that it’s going to autocorrect all your frequent fat finger typos. But please Apple… please put an email push/fetch scheduler in the OS. Nobody wants to be woken up to viagra spam in the middle of the night, nor does anyone want to manually turn off email fetch every night. RIM offers it, Windows Mobile offers it, I’ll guess that Android probably does. Why cant you? This seems like a very simple feature oversight for what should be a mature product.
Hopefully this nice little app will give me a bit more incentive to blog more, but its pretty doubtful.
On a somewhat related note, I’m back from Vancouver, minus an appendix! More to come later…