My New Toy

If you read anything on this blog it won't take you very long to realize that generally I'm motivated to write about things that don't work well. I've come out against Windows Vista, poor customer service and faulty political thinking to name a few. Today is different, I bought an iPhone 3GS.

I started in the connected world with one of the first entry level Palm Pilots. I moved through the Palm product line, added a cell phone, added an iPod Shuffel and then bought a Trio in order to limit the number of devices I had to travel with. When I figured out that Palm had abandoned graffiti on the Trio I switched to a Blackberry Curve.

All of these products worked well enough but several friends and associates raved about the iPhone and damned if Apple don't make the best commercials since the Jefferson Airplane quite hawking 7Up. What did I have to lose?

I ordered my iPhone through AT&T and it arrived yesterday afternoon. Once I opened the box all thoughts of any other activity for the day flew out the window. For the remainder of the day I set-up and played with my new toy. Today, I have to keep reminding myself that it's not a toy it's a business tool; fancy but a tool none-the-less.

If you find yourself thinking about about listening to your friends and becoming mesmerized by those commercials, give in. The iPhone works like what you think a PDA should work like. Working within applications is easy and intuitive as is moving between applications. If every Apple product works this well, this blog may be updated on a MacBook before too long.