2 posts tagged iphone 5.0

When Apple announced the iPhone 4s today, I had a mini-meltdown. 

“How DARE they!” I thought. “What ever happened to innovation? Excitement? This is ALL you can offer me? Yawn.” 

And I went on to pout for a good hour or so.  

And then I thought about it.  

Go back to …1993. Email? Not unless you were a comp sci major who knew how to use UNIX (or lie about knowing how to use it to get an email account at University. Ahem.)  What about…the Internet? When you had to do a term paper could you just hop online from your dorm room for research? No. You spent the day before the paper was due a semester slaving in a library over outdated books. Mobile phones? That meant a phone with a really long cord. It was mobile.  Now go to 2005. Go back to 2003. There’s this thing called an iPod. Peer2Peer. Keep going. YouTube. Facebook. Twitter. FourSquare. iPod Touch, iPhone. Apple TV. iPad. 

If you were to REALLY consider the changes in our world from the day you were born to right now, your head would explode.

As I got over my tantrum about iPhone 4S I thought about it a little more. And then I read “Where Did The Magic Go” by Matt Galligan and had to hang my head in shame for a bit.  He’s right. My iPhone/smartphone has not only changed the way I communicate, it’s changed the way I do…almost everything.  In some ways, it’s a little scary. In others, astoundingly good. 

So if you are still feeling bitter, check out Matt’s post and…well, get over it. We’re in for an absolutely amazing ride. 

Good stuff this week:

1. Um, that thing called the iPhone 4S.

2. Lots of great nutrition programs in our NYC schools. Wellness In The Schools , Edible Schoolyards New York, and The Cooking Room.  All with heavy weight chefs behind them (chefs who are actually in their kitchens)  - Bill Telepan, Shuna Lydon,  David Chang, and Zak Pelaccio.  

3. Andy Rooney bids us adieu. And is glad to be rid of us. I love you Mr. Rooney. 

4. As Occupy Wall Street continues, the Transport Workers Unions refuse to support the NYPD in actions against “citizens who were exercising their constitutional right to protest - and shouldn’t have been arrested in the first place”. (I never thought I’d actually agree with the unions, but thank you John Samuelsen). THe TWU is now taking the NYPD to court. Things are heating up.  

5. The Facebook Economy. What FB looks like if it were its own country.