2 posts tagged “mobile”
Man, the Steve Jobs Reality Distortion Field was cranked up to the max on Saturday. Despite my publicly stated intention not to succumb to the siren song of the iPhone, I drove over to the Apple Store in Albuquerque and picked one up on Saturday. I'm in San Jose today and, having been in two airports, one hotel lobby, and one hotel room with this device already, I can say the WiFi works great, the functionality is very, very well implemented, the quality is high, and the magnetic appeal is insane. I must have demoed this thing for 25 people yesterday in my travels (including one very geeky Southwest flight attendant who was completely entranced.
As the Treo is on its way back to my former employer, the iPhone joins the N95 in my gadget bag as one of two converged devices I'm currently carrying. The N95 supports tethering to my MacBook and Tablet PC (the iPhone doesn't) and has a better camera and of course the GPS. The iPhone has the allure of a completely new and typically brilliant Apple UI, great form factor, outstanding web browsing, and excellent iTunes integration.
So many blogs... so little time. I've recently started a new personal blog called Platform Agnostic which I'll be using to spout off on a variety of topics related to my brand new independent consulting practice and my next book.
I just ended my association with Foldera after one year of working with them on their web-based information manager and collaboration tool. Nice people and a very cool product concept but the role I was recruited to fill was still a long way off and there were so many cool projects vying for my attention. I'm now consulting with a couple of very cool companies and doing some freelance writing for a couple of very big tech companies and am enjoying the liberation from a single job.
As a result of this decision, the N95 is now my primary mobile device, partnered with N800 for light Net work. The Treo has been sent back to my former employer and I'll use the N93 as a backup and for when I need a really great camera. Although the N95 is higher-resolution, the optics on the N93 are still the best (3X optical zoom kids). If I do get another mobile device, it will probably be an iPhone because ti looks so cool to use but I cannot put my faith in a locked device with no removable SIM card, battery, or storage. Bad design IMO and a sign that Apple has some learning to do in this space.
Now that I'm a sole proprietor, I can claim the iPhone and AT&T account as an expense on my taxes which takes a lot fo the sting out of YACC (Yet Another Carrier Contract).
