If you watch the demonstrations this thing is innovative as the dickens,
which in my mind goes hand in hand with metric.  If you watch an old TNT
movie - "Pirates of Silicon Valley" - it makes it clear that Jobs was always
the radical experimenter while Gates was the shrewd businessman, and this is
reflected in the novel iPhone interface vs. the standard Windows PC.  
 
So I would expect someone like Jobs to say 11 mm, without the weird inch
conversions.
 
Nat
 
PS The only drawback is its locked to the AT&T/Cingular network

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of Mike Millet
Sent: Friday, 29 June 2007 12:44
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:38970] Re: iPhone


I believe you're right Nat, and I also seem to recall Steve Jobs saying the
iPhone was 11mm thin without some weird inch conversions. In fact, I believe
he described the thinness of the Macbook Pro's in mm as well. 
 
Nice to see one American CEO who isn't shy on using SI when he needs to.

 
On 6/29/07, Nat Hager III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 

Was watching David Pogue's humorous video on the iPhone this morning, and in
the demonstration I noticed it DID seem capable of 24h time format.  Just go
to the article below, and scroll down to the video "The iPhone Challenge:
Keep It Quiet" 
 
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/27/technology/circuits/27pogue.html?_r=1
<http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/27/technology/circuits/27pogue.html?_r=1&=&a
dxnnl=1&mkt=videophoto&adxnnlx=1183133964-yVQfCRDKEwOFxm5cvrgr2w&oref=slogin
>
&=&adxnnl=1&mkt=videophoto&adxnnlx=1183133964-yVQfCRDKEwOFxm5cvrgr2w&oref=sl
ogin
 
Don't think it's behind the "Times Select" wall.
 
Nat




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