I have recently joined that elite set of wankers, the iPhone users.
It feels good. As people say, it's like living in the future.
Of course, being a software developer I can't help wondering how plausible it would be for me to make it rich by making an addictive physics puzzle game or something and flogging it on the app store for a couple of bucks. It certainly is incredibly easy to buy stuff.
My first purchase was iGo, an implementation of GNU Go with a slick user interface. So now I can work on strengthening my game on the bus. The perfect compliment to that is a free IGS client, Tetsuki so I can be beaten at Go by Japanese children anywhere, any time.
I won't bother enumerating the vast array of personal efficiency gains I believe I'll make.
The device is capable, luxurious and respectful of my time.
It has also exhausted my meagre toy budget for some time to come.
There are days in my work building where it seems like I'm the only person who doesn't have an iPhone.
ReplyDeleteI'm still holding off on acquiring a toy of such usefulness. Strange considering how much money I have invested in the temple of things shiny and white.
Right now I can't justify going from circa-$35/month phone plan to a circa-$65/month one. Maybe when I'm richer, or when Apple bumps the hardware... or when I'm bombarded by saturation advertising at a moment of weakness.