Thanks to (previously mentioned) problems with AT&T at my new apartment, I’m in the market for a new cell phone carrier.
Unfortunately, this being the US, that means I also am in the market for a new phone. Mind you, I’m perfectly happy with my current phone. if I could use it on someone else’s network (i.e. not AT&T), I’d be happy to. But I can’t.
We are all creatures of habit, but some of us more than others. When I was living in NYC in spring 2008, I would frequently take the 1 subway line up to 59th street, walk a few blocks across to Central Park, and make my way northward to the reservoir. I almost always passed by the children’s zoo, the sailboat pond, the Belvedere ‘castle’, and the great lawn on the way to the reservoir. It was always a nice way to spend the afternoon, and clear my head of whatever funk I was in. I made the trip more than a dozen times from March through May of that year.
Today I needed to catch the train to visit my grandparents, so I replicated the route I used to take, in reverse order. As usual the fountain was running in the reservoir, and I was lucky enough to catch a rainbow. Even in the middle of the densest part of New York, you can still find a little tranquillity, if you look.
Well, that was sudden.
Only a few months after handing over the reins at Apple, Steve Jobs passed away yesterday from cancer. He was 56.
Well, Apple made their iPhone 4S announcement today, and apparently a good many people are less than impressed.
The main complaints I’ve seen so far are:
Same design as the iPhone 4. This seems to be a form of misplaced status anxiety. I’ve seen no specific complaints about the iPhone 4 design. Only a desire for something ‘new’ and ‘shiny’.
Screen is still ‘only’ 3.5″. The assumption seems to be that a bigger screen is automatically a better screen. From the perspective of pocketability and battery life, that’s not true. A larger screen would make some things easier, but there would clearly be tradeoffs.