Since roughly Monday I have been on a pretty steady load of Nyquil and an assortment of other medications I generally do not take. I don’t remember the last 24 hours at all. I remember very little of the last three days but the good news is that I can finally breathe.
So to my surprise, I opened up the Google Reader this morning to find stories of people lining up for the iPhone. Amazing. Ryan from Engadget has a great summary of the reviews so far, to say that this is Apple’s usual polished brick for homosexual appeal would be an insult to both the gay & lesbian community as well as to the bricklayers union. What a truely useless gadget that does.. well… nothing right. Not a good PDA, not a good cell phone, not a good camera, not a good ipod – then what the heck is it designed for? I love the commercials too, showcasing how you can search the web and get data back instantly – yeah, thats gonna happen. It would take more than twice the length of that entire commercial to download the front page of the newspaper, but as with all Apple commercials since 1984, it is aimed at non-conformists who don’t rely on evidence but word of mouth (or word of vendor selling the device/software). While anyone could predicted all of the above, I really didn’t expect people to start lining up for it. Even the Zune’s #1 fan doesn’t appear that big of a loser right now.
In other news…. new CTP for Windows 2008 server, just as I was finishing up the beta3 deployments. This world sure moves fast when you’re on drugs.
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