遠野くん

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.

As I wrote after examining Apple’s iPhone 4 demo units after the WWDC keynote, the Retina Display’s overall effect is like that of high-end glossy magazine print — except that it updates live. It’s living breathing print. I don’t recall ever having seen motion graphics of this resolution, anywhere. And (again as noted previously) it’s more than just the pixel resolution — it’s that the LCD is so much closer to the surface of the glass. Like pixels on glass rather than pixels under glass. This is the result of a new manufacturing process Apple has pioneered. No other company gives a shit about things like this.

Daring Fireball: 4

John Gruber has his thoughts on the new iPhone 4 in a long form article on daringfireball.net. I always love it when Gruber has written an actual article instead of his usual links, and especially so for his reviews on the lovely products from Apple. Particularly in my belief this is due to the inherently blunt voice that is prevalent across all of his writing. The passage above is one of my favourites from the review.

Some interesting tidbits about the subtle font changes with some easy to understand displays. He also collects a lot of the information about the problems people are experiencing on their iPhone 4′s, and lays it out pretty well.

I particularly liked his thoughts on Face Time. I had hard doubts about how well this could go when Apple announced it for the new phone just a month ago, but their promotional video hit my imagination in such a way video calling has never done before. It is important to note the ‘value of the “It just works” factor’ (lovely phrase right there from the article). Initial reports are saying this is absolutely easy to use, and I am thinking it may blossom phenomenally.

Thoughts on a new iPod Touch —which I think should just become the de facto ‘iPod’ nowadays— with Face Time capabilities have me salivating at the possibilities. Hell, I would already be blown away by an iPod Touch if it had a camera on it, as it would be the perfect gift I could see for my youngest sister. In fact anyone in the family.

Gruber makes some bold words on the whole thing:

Mark these words: FaceTime goes down as one of the most important things Apple has ever introduced.

A must read review on the newest phone from Cupertino in my opinion. One that only makes me want the iPhone 4 so much more, connection concerns regardless. Why do I torture myself like this reading up more on a phone I am so close to getting but just have to wait for!?

There is not much in my life I could be truly disappointed by. There have been failures and set backs sure, but I always could be content by the fact that I had done my best at least and it was out of my control. Or I could be content knowing I got back exactly how much I put in. Today I felt some real disappointment.

Today I was unable to get an iPhone 4 and found that everywhere within a 50 mile radius of me is sold out, and probably will not be getting restocked until next week at the earliest. I feel so bad about myself, especially since I’ve been looking forward to this day over the entire exam period of the last few weeks. This was the light at the end of my tunnel and now I found out that the tunnel stretches even further.

I hate how I have such a trivial first world problem, especially with others out there in the world with vastly more severe problems, but I can’t help to feel disappointed, and utterly helpless. Knowing I feel this way, actually makes me feel worse.

Well, time to distract myself with something, anything.