On Aug 7, 2009, at 11:05 PM, [email protected] wrote:
I must say that I find folks who I know who emotionally tell me how much they "love" their iPhone to be sounding a bit needy. Kinda weird to get that wrapped up about a phone, IMHO.
Same emotions were expressed by people who lost their Twitter connection during the recent DOS attack. You might say that Twitter is just a variation on RSS so what's the big deal. The big deal is that Twitter took the idea just a little bit further and crossed a utility/ emotional threshold with a large group of people.
If you don't understand this it just means that you have not yet obtained a technology that meets your needs to a very high degree. When that happens it is life changing and people do get extremely excited and emotional about the source of that change. If you are using M$ products it is very unlikely that you will ever experience this.
I still feel pangs of sadness over OS 9. Apple's OS X is a poor imitation. The new OS does not help me as much as the old one did. I finally stopped using OS 9 only a few weeks ago. I'm still excited/ emotional over my old Palm Tungsten, though I suspect I'll be even more excited/emotional over a Pre or iTouch. I'm waiting to see what Apple does with the expected larger form-factor version. During the early days I was similarly excited/emotional over the ARPANET,using it with my dot-matrix terminal.
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