I buy a new laptop about every 18 months. This has been the case since my Dad bought me my first laptop in 1998 (an IBM ThinkPad 310ed, it was a great computer). It is almost like clockwork that I need a new laptop to be the most effective at my job [...]
I just loaded up MacRumors and saw a post claiming that an Apple PDA is in the works. My first thought was “No f*@%ing way!”. And I mean that literally; not in a “that would be so cool” kind of way, but rather as in “after the release of the iPhone that would [...]
More and more of my friends are picking up iPhones. The latest convert is Cory. My dad thinks it is only a matter of time before I join the club/cult. I have to admit, there are some things that continue to tempt me about the iPhone. Still, I just don’t see [...]
On July 31, 2006 I wrote Why Apple Will Release a Cell Phone to share my thoughts for the business case behind what we now know as the iPhone. (At the time there was a fair amount of people saying that the cellular market was not a market Apple would want to enter). [...]
For years, being a Sprint customer was a miserable existence. We had the worst phones. We didn’t have bluetooth. We had ridiculously expensive service plans. Most of the phones It is with a little trepidation that I proclaim, those days are over!
It is true that I will never have an iPhone [...]
It has not been a good morning for the iPhone in my aggregator. First it lost a head-to-head in a VC’s take on the iPhone vs Blackberry. Then Dave Winer came out and said that after a month with the iPhone, it is not as easy to use as his Blackberry. He [...]
I regularly write about what I think will happen in the future, usually with technology and particularly with mobile technology. In January 2006 I was declaring the arrival of the year of the mobile explosion. Well, I can admit it; I was wrong.
I have completely miss-predicted how mobile would take off. For [...]
I have used over 2,000 TXT messages each month for the past 3 months (maybe longer). Luckily, I have a $10/mo Unlimited SMS plan with Sprint (if you want that plan just ask for the Retention Department). I am thinking it might be interesting to share how I am using SMS and see [...]
I have a cellular internet card that I use in my MacBook Pro (thanks work!). If I wanted to (not sure about the terms of use), I could turn my laptop into a wireless access point. OSX makes this trivial to do. It is just:
System Preferences -> Sharing -> internet
I can name [...]
The widely accepted rumor is that AT&T has a 5 year exclusive contract for all phones that Apple makes. Many people think this is a ridiculous agreement for Apple to have entered in. In 5 years, the iPhone will be 8 times as powerful as it is now*. While that is not [...]
