I don’t hide my love of Apple products. I am what bloggers call a “fanboy,” meaning that I don’t ever criticize Apple for any thing and I just love everything that they do. And I must admit that I am somewhat unwilling to recognize when they do something dumb, I think it is a remarkable company.
I love my computer. I love using it even to do the simplest things. Sometimes when I am bored I just open it up and walk around the desktop just to enjoy it. Maybe more than my computer, I love my iPhone. I really love it. Sometimes I feel like Gollum because of the way I care about it. I see it right before I go to bed and when I wake up and keep it with me all day long.
I also take every chance I can to use apps for whatever I am doing. To explain what I mean, let me tell you about our baby experience.
I used a shopping list app to make sure we had everything we needed for when the baby arrived. When Rachael was getting close to delivering, I downloaded an application to time her contractions. So when we went to the hospital, the midwife would ask “how are your contractions” and I would respond with an exact set of averages and a graph of the last ten contractions. We wanted to keep everyone (that cared) informed about what was happening during Rachael’s delivery, so I invited them to follow us on twitter. I used vlingo, a voice recognition app, to update everyone using Twitter and my voice. I used another Twitter app that allowed me to automaticaly upload pictures from the delivery straight to Twitter and our followers. We would have used the iphone to listen to music as well, but instead we used our ipod dock. When the baby was born, we captured the initial moments in photos and sound recordings using iPhone. I also posted updates to facebook for the broader audience. Since he’s been born, Rachael got a baby app that helps her keep track of her feedings (but she never uses it:)), and we have a white noise app that helps him sleep.
I have not even mentioned the number of times that I use it throughout the day for email, iPod, web browsing, IM-ing, playing Mr. T quotes, recording meetings, using my to do list, calendaring my life (and getting much needed reminders),entertaining children, using GPS and maps for driving, blogging (like this post), getting a pitch for singing the opening hymn, and of course, playing games. All and all, I just love love love my iPhone. Thanks to my wife and parents for getting it for me. You guys are the best.
3 Comments
June 24, 2009 at 11:12 pm
How could I NOT read your post with a title like that! I loved it, and am afraid we are having the same love affair! I couldn’t do without. Some girls like romance novels and diamonds….My iphone and computer are the apple of my eye
June 29, 2009 at 8:37 am
Are you trying to get Steve Jobs to put you on TV? (Adam:Apple::Jared:Subway.) And just because I am a criticboy (the opposite of a fanboy), let me just get in a jab here:
You captured pictures and audio of your child’s life. Wow. That sounds amazing. Did you get any video? Even my Palm Treo could record video. No? Just pictures? Will you Text me a picture? No? Oh. Well, I guess iPhones are still pretty cool.
June 29, 2009 at 10:08 pm
It’s true, my iPhone does not capture video and I cannot send MMSs. But I guess it goes without saying that the latest iPhone allows for video capture AND editing with a 3 megapixel camera WITH autofocus; and that iPhone OS 3.o allows for MMSs (if only stupid AT&T would allow it).
I suppose the iPhone has some things to learn from other phones. Maybe when it grows up it can be as BIG as your Treo too.