Before Bill Gates reads this I better explain why the iPhone request. I have a running battle at the office with an Apple loyalist who works for me and so just to really get him in a real sweat I was going to get an iPhone, purely for taunting value. An iPhone can’t do anything that my JasJar (HTC Universal) has been doing for me and more for the last 3 years. I really want an HTC Omni but my Chinese connection to the inside of HTC failed me on his last mission to China (you wouldn’t believe the stuff he gets and how he gets it, but apparently standing on a particular bridge at midnight means some stranger hands you a bag (gratis) full of unreleased uber cool toys, but no Omni, grrrrrr).
Now the bad thing about living in the land of golden oil companies, is that wireless data rates are beyond believe as oil companies just don’t care how much it costs as they are happy to pay whatever, which basically hoses over the average consumer, so while we have been thinking about buying Mike (our token office Apple fan) an iPhone, apparently he can’t afford the local data rates unless he changes his name to Shell or Suncor, etc.
Now certainly I have been donating money lately to Apple in the form of iPods (the record companies in Canada can’t come to an agreement for the Zune, so it will have to wait), but that will remain the extent of my Apple relationship for now. I wonder how my meetings with Ballmer and Ozie at Microsoft would go in April if show up with an iPhone, hacked of course since I’m a security guy /images/smileys/icon_smile.gif .
Still a PC
The Old Guy
27 Dec, 2007Before Bill Gates reads this I better explain why the iPhone request. I have a running battle at the office with an Apple loyalist who works for me and so just to really get him in a real sweat I was going to get an iPhone, purely for taunting value. An iPhone can’t do anything that my JasJar (HTC Universal) has been doing for me and more for the last 3 years. I really want an HTC Omni but my Chinese connection to the inside of HTC failed me on his last mission to China (you wouldn’t believe the stuff he gets and how he gets it, but apparently standing on a particular bridge at midnight means some stranger hands you a bag (gratis) full of unreleased uber cool toys, but no Omni, grrrrrr).
Now the bad thing about living in the land of golden oil companies, is that wireless data rates are beyond believe as oil companies just don’t care how much it costs as they are happy to pay whatever, which basically hoses over the average consumer, so while we have been thinking about buying Mike (our token office Apple fan) an iPhone, apparently he can’t afford the local data rates unless he changes his name to Shell or Suncor, etc.
Now certainly I have been donating money lately to Apple in the form of iPods (the record companies in Canada can’t come to an agreement for the Zune, so it will have to wait), but that will remain the extent of my Apple relationship for now. I wonder how my meetings with Ballmer and Ozie at Microsoft would go in April if show up with an iPhone, hacked of course since I’m a security guy /images/smileys/icon_smile.gif .
Still a PC