Completely made my day when I saw these two ‘musicals’. Has me in the mood for watching some movies now. I wonder what I’ll watch!
Spent 4 hours in line.
Made a few new friends.
Got a nice suntan.
A gay pride parade passed us by —no kidding.
Two hours of listening to rave music from the parade.
A real nice sales assistant from the store made everyone in line’s day better.
Got the new iPhone 4.
My day was great.
One of my greatest loves is my iPhone 3G –named Yui– and I am still surprised that she still works for me even though I abuse her so badly. The screen is screwy, and her back is a mess of scratches but, I love her still.
When iPhone OS 3 came out it was like our relationship was fresh again. All the little problems were gone in the face of how much better you had become and our relationship only deepened. Now two years on from when we had gotten together, we took the next step and upgraded to iOS4. Things went downhill from then.
I knew I had been cheating on her for a bit. The iPad was so much more voluptuous and did things for me that my sweet iPhone would not never consider but, I always came back. The iPad was a sweet fling, but it was not something I would consider always living with. That would always be my iPhone. This wasn’t the problem though.
Ever since iOS4 came into our home, she had turned unresponsive at time. At times she would just give up all together, right in the middle of our sweet time together and I would have to wait out the excruciating time before she would come around. All the good that iOS4 could have brought into our home, were crushed by these new problems.
I saw others, with their 3GS and they just so much better after iOS4. I knew we could have what they had but it only proved to worsen what this had done to us.
And now, I’ve had eyes on the iPhone 4. They look so similar but there is so much of a difference. At the moment, she won’t give me the time of day but I know it is only a matter of time before she becomes mine.
So my time with Yui –sweet loveable iPhone 3G– is fleeting. We know it won’t last but we are willing to ride it out as long as we can. I still love her.
And –quietly and guiltily– to myself I think that even though every thing was going downhill, “Man, her new unified inbox is sexy.”
I’ll milk our remaining time together as much as I can.
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I have no idea where this came from or why I wrote it like this. Originally this started as just a random musing on even though my 3G suffered performance wise since the iOS4 update, I had to admit that getting that unified inbox and folders was worth the hassle. I had a situation where I got an important and much welcomed e-mail recently to one of my e-mail addressed that I usually would not check so often and thanks to unified inbox, it was so simple to notice it. I love not having to drill down through the different accounts so much.
Our time is over soon. It is only a matter of time before I finally can buy that iPhone 4 (if I could only find a place that still had some in stock early enough) but even with the hassle I have gotten with iOS4, it is far outweighed by the good that it has brought to my iPhone 3G.
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Lovely. You learn new things all the time. I love how this looks, and am experimenting it on my sites as of now.
So this is the advert for the new DroidX, one of many phones I have had some interest in from a “competition to the iPhone” perspective. The problem I have with the advert, is the same problem I have with most car and perfume adverts. It tells me pretty much nothing about the product at all. This one is particularly bad because I don’t even know what the DroidX looks like or has.
In contrast, Apple uses a very minimal –uncluttered, clear, concise, straight forward– method of showing the iPhone in use. It is something I love seeing every time because each case is different. From the public opinion of people I know –most of which are not tech people– they have no real idea about any other smart phone apart from maybe the blackberry and have no clue what the Droid is, nor whether it is worth it for them to find out. The iPhone TV spots though has everyone I know, have every idea about what an iPhone is and what it can do. Why does no one else do it like this?
A perfect example of the goodness that is the Apple Ad, check out the latest iPod Touch ad.