Sunday, September 21, 2008
On Friday I got an iPhone. It was a hideous expense, but I thought of it less as a phone than as a cute little pocket mac. This marks one of the very few times I've given in to peer pressure, since almost everyone at BLT has one already. This has had some of interesting side effects:
- I do not like making purchases, let alone purchases over $20, so I have tremendous guilt over the expenditure. Could the money have been better spent? Should I have donated it? Should I have saved it? What else could I have done to better myself with it? I view money as capital -- leverage for life improvement, rather than just the power to purchase, so a purchase had better have added value. I'm still not convinced that the iPhone's functional features (vast as they are) overshadow it's toy features (vast as they are)
- I feel my phone phobia withering away. This was shocking! I've always hated, *hated*, using the phone, especially when talking to strangers. I'll do everything I can to avoid calling someone I don't or barely know, even to my own detriment. But I like using the phone feature of the iPhone. I like seeing the person's face that I am calling (it is a static image). I like pressing the red button. I like scrolling through the contacts list. I like the big number buttons. Most of all I love the call quality -- it's a vast improvement over the last three cell phones I've had. I've no qualms about maintaining a two year contract at this point.
- I find I want to curl up with it when I sleep (I've done this occasionally with laptops, so maybe I'm very weird or maybe it's time to get a puppy or a kid, or hell, maybe a teddy bear), but I am afraid of crushing it. It's probably a bad idea just from the RF exposure. The thing is, I bonded emotionally to it
- I'm less stressed on the bus (and almost missed my stops a couple of times). Sometimes it's fun to watch the scenery go by, other times you just want to not notice the smelly homeless guy or the domestic dispute playing out behind you. My iPod has been great about tuning out most of the annoyances (and telling bus strangers I'm not available for lengthy discussions on various topics), but the iPhone just sucks you in completely. A twenty minute ride turns into catching up on email, or a couple of games, or web browsing, or following your location in real time on a map (so freaking cool, it's right out of a James Bond movie).
posted by KaOs at
9/21/2008 04:43:00 PM
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