I now have, against my better judgement, an Apple phone 4
It's sorta alright. I mean it's fucking lightyears ahead of my old, pointless and, essentially, impossible to use gadgets, but I don't feel like a tech pioneer, bravely battling with serial port conflicts and desperately shifting data around to make use of the 4MB of user-available storage.

If you have an iPhone you're a media cunt, if you have one of these, you're on the bleeding edge!


(Miraclefish How appropriate, you fight like a cow, Thu 23 Sep 2010, 17:52, 1 reply)

Wouldn't worry
I think it is pretty much impossible to be a pioneer these days. Whatever proves instantly popular gets the development investment and all else gets shelved...not as much fun as fucking about with ribbon cables and IRQ resolution but probably more productive. I will however have to out myself as a recent Apple convert (not a fanboy however, they do fuck things up just like any other tech company). Best thing you can do is shove it all in a drawer and then show it to your kids because they will never believe we used to do any sort of work in 16 shade grayscale or had to sync using a cable!!
( number5 has been fighting tramps and losing., Fri 24 Sep 2010, 8:20, closed)

Ahh, I remember...
When devices had to be plugged in when the system booted.

Hotswappable, young Jimmy? Never heard of it!
(Miraclefish How appropriate, you fight like a cow, Mon 27 Sep 2010, 10:08, closed)