iWish

[j4]

But seriously, how am I supposed to develop a future-proof, forward-thinking*, dynamic and synergistic user communications strategy if I don't have access to the latest web browsing technology?

* Interestingly, our house style eschews hyphens. Given the jargon of the sector, this sometimes makes for a less user friendly unreadably technology rich adjectivally overloaded word pile up.

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[j4.livejournal.com]

generally disapproves of multiple-purpose gadgets

I downgraded from my SonyEricsson P900 to a Nokia 63mumble because I didn't want to have to know the numbers on the end of the mumble to be able to make a phone call, and didn't think I really needed an mp3 player in my phone (or indeed at all, at the time).

I have since been won over to the iPod (though not to the modern fashion of wearing the damn thing ALL THE TIME so you can't hear anything anybody says to you or complete basic shopping transactions without shouting and so that the whole of the bus has to listen to your choice of Queen's Greatest Hits) but the bit that really made me excited was when Jobs said (and I now can't find the quote, but I read it in one of those "live from MacWorld" stream-of-consciousness things) that the killer app was that it was a phone. That you could make calls on it easily. My inner grumpy old woman still thinks that you should be able to make phone calls with a phone, and that that shouldn't actually be harder to do than streaming a video podcast to your toaster.

But, yeah. :)

[nja.livejournal.com]

I do love my iPod. Actually, my iPods (iPodS?) because I have a little 2Gb one for day-to-day convenience and a big 20Gb one which holds a reasonable selection of music and can be used as an external hard disk drive. But part of the reason why I love them (and paid more than I would have done for rival MP3 players) is that they are just MP3 players with good usability¹, not all-singing all-dancing entertainment modules with a million buttons and cool blue LEDs all over them.

¹ N.b. this is a real word

[j4.livejournal.com]

But the whole loveliness of the iPhone is that it doesn't have a million buttons and cool blue LEDs! It has one (1111!!!!1!) button! Glorious Mac minimalism a-go-go!

[rgl.livejournal.com]

It's the famous Bjarne Stroustrop quote, isn't it? I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone.

[j4.livejournal.com]

Ha! I hadn't heard that one. Thank you.