iAlready have a phone

Wednesday, January 10, 2007 » general thought

I am probably the only person in the world1 who didn't immediately go crazy over the iPhone. Then again, the annual iPod upgrade announcements usually don't faze me, either. I'm the type who plans to get a long lifetime of use out of each electronic gizmo I buy, and I'm not an early adopter. Plus, five hundred ninety-nine US dollars!

I'm sure they'll sell like crazy, though. They'll probably really catch on once they come out with the 2nd and 3rd generation models. That's probably the point at which I'll start looking into getting one, too. After watching the keynote, I did start to see the appeal in some of the phone-oriented interfaces, like voicemail and SMS. And I definitely didn't need Steve Jobs to tell me about how terrible current phone OSes and applications are. It'll be interesting to see how the iPhone's little mutant version of OS X works out.

And! And! With the multitouch technology, my dream can finally be realized: OUENDAN 2: DUAL STYLUS BATTLE. Once that's announced, I'll be first in line.

1 Limited to my RSS feed and the more vocal among my buddy list.