The iPhone: It's Everything
I like Apple. They've popularized an aura of coolness around things that I thought were cool to begin with: computers and mp3 players. But I have to question--and even mock--the whole idea of the iPhone.
Maybe I'm just horribly old-fashioned, but I wasn't even excited about video iPods. "What's the point?", I ask. Who needs a miniature multimedia center? Apple is certainly cashing in on the "cool aura"--they're in a position where they can create products of dubious usefulness, and sell them like hotcakes.
Some wise YouTube soul has felt similar apprehensiveness towards this new amalgamation, and has captured some rather piquant remarks on film:
My sentiments exactly! I can understand combining a phone with internet browsing capabilities; however, my experience with these technologies tells me that there will be such a dearth of bandwidth that its use will be severely limited. I can even understand adding 'net consuming "Widgets" to an Internet-read phone. But I can't believe there will be a day when I'll want my phone to play music, or my mp3 player to play videos.
Then again, I'm an oddball.
