July 6, 2007
Sweetness...
I finally got a chance to play with an iPhone, now that the crowds have left the Apple Store. Ten minutes at most, but that was enough time to try a lot of things.
It is beyond awesome. (Yes, yes, Scott, I knows about all the various things it won't do, and I'm sure that if I were away from WiFi the EDGE network would be a big negative.) I have a good phone, and Charlene has a Treo, but this is just another world.
You know that old SF cliché, about how any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic? It was sort of like that. I was riffling through a photo collection by flicking it with my finger, and almost immediately lost any sensation of working with a machine, or with data, or files. Or pixels on a screen.
I took the picture below, first try, and e-mailed it to myself, without any feeling that I needed to consult the owners manual. I just did it. The keyboarding is weird, but I improved quickly. I bet someone soon invents a stylus that mimics the electrical qualities of human skin, to use with iPhones...I started tapping with the corner of my finger, to be more precise...