In case you didn’t heard, Apple’s much fated touch screen mobile phone the Iphone has finally hit the UK. It has only been a matter of days and I am already sick of the thing. The amount of press coverage this stupid little device has got makes me want to be ill. It seems to turn everyone from the press to the nerds into small children, who want to play with a new shiny toy. I can’t believe how much people are talking about this one thing. Has a fan of new and technology news particularly, the coverage of this small device has blown me away. The best example of this is BBC news website, which is one of the most trusted news web sites in the world, wrote a review. I asked you, how on earth is a review of a phone, news? I try and keep up to date with all the new stuff happening in the world of tech, but the news is all about the iphone. I used to really used to enjoy listening to tech podcasts like Buzz out loud and TWIT but it is nothing but pointless detail about this stupid phone and it is making my life a living hell.
Now you may think that I am just not a fan of Apple, which simply is not true. I can’t wait for Christmas, where I am hoping to find a have a brand new Macbook under the Christmas tree. I am sick of the Apple fan boys, that seem to think that every product that comes out of the Steve Jobs machine is amazing and every product that Apple makes, is going to change the world. It is not like this device, say helps save lives or anything, it is just a MP3 phone. All the Iphone does it disconnect us more from the real world by making it easier to access the internet on the bus.
I have used an Iphone for a while, when I was in Boston on holiday for a week, I went into the Mac store there and had a play with one for a while. I must admit, the thing did impressed me. I played around the picture pinch interface and viewed spacedmonkey on the web browser and was impressed. But after about 10 minutes of playing with the thing, I was already bored. I know that if I had one, I would love the thing and spend all my time, checking facebook on it or hacking it to run Pac-man. I also know that spend for to much time in front of computer screens as it is. I think we should all really think about what is going on with the world and think if we really want to spend more time on our computers by making them smaller and putting them in our pockets.