Applank

There's some pretty heavy Apple wanking going on around here, and throughout my neighborhood this morning. Apparently Apple has initiated the second coming of Christ? Oh wait.. no... that's not it. Oh... they cured cancer?? No... not that either. OH... they made a phone. I see. Well, that's almost as important I suppose.

I'm closing comments on this post. Partially because it'll allow me to picture Schomer exploding in his chair as he's helpless to chastise me for not bowing before the white box gods, and partially because I just don't want 37 comments about how awesome this thing is ABSOLUTELY GOING TO BE.

One parting thought though: If there's one thing I learned from spending four years playing with every awesome new smart phone to roll out of some factory in China, it's that all the sexing up in the world doesn't mean shit if the phone itself isn't 100% reliable, clear, functional, and robust. All these $500 HTC Pocket PCs and all those $500 Treos, and all those Blackberrys, whatever the fuck people pay for them, will find their own special place in hell for dropping calls, missing calls, losing track of GPRS and EDGE networks, and instantiating shitty connections. I hope Apple's phone is better, but I wouldn't hold my breath. The irony that I've experienced is that the first thing all these hott awesome phones skimp on is the actual phone hardware. As far as I can tell, Nokia is the only exception, and it's only very recently that the rest of the functionality on those things found it's way above "sucks ass".

Somehow, this song fits the day:

09 - Spiraling Shape

They Might Be Giants

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PS: I don't want any shit if you see me walking around with one of these someday. If it's awesome (more awesome than anything else), then I'll buy it. I'd say it's likely that it'll be awesome, but I'm not going to take it as a given.