I Heart iPhone

Years and years ago I used to download music from Napster , this was of course before it was "illegal".  MP3's were the wave of the future.  Who needed to buy Cd's anymore, certainly not me but perhaps my friend Val :)  This of course lead to several things one of which was buying this $330 Sony MP3 player.  It is so old now I can't even remember the name.  However it did not have any moving parts, was smaller than a cigarette lighter and could hold a whole downloaded album.  Loading the music was cumbersome and painful to say the least with USB 1.0 and Sony's horrid UI.  This lead to me not using the product after a few months.  I was still using Cd's. 

Not to much longer lots of vendors started releasing lots of Hard Drive MP3 players aka BRICKS.  I still remember my buddy, we'll call him Kevin strapping one of these bricks to his arm when he worked out.  Of course Mr. Gun-show has like 22" biceps but still come on! 

Finally the iPod came out and it was a tada like moment.  We were all saved by Apple.  I still have and use my first generation iPod.  I used it in my car during my commute, during my workouts and whenever else I wanted to listen to music.  Of course around this time we had finally finished digitizing our media library and my measly 15G ipod could hold everything but is still worked wonderfully so why upgrade.  BTW, I accumulated most of the music by purchasing it from iTunes.  Why go through the trouble of stealing music when it is so easy to download!?  I never had a problem paying for stuff.

Time has moved on, I no longer have to commute and the use of my iPod has dwindled quite a bit.  However I still do use it and would carry it everywhere with me.  Now you can imagine the first generation iPod in my pocket with my wallet, keys, and cell phone!  No I wasn't happy to see you it was just all of this crap in my pants!  To top things off, my new car had a blue-tooth phone in it.  Man did I want to use the handsfree blue-tooth phone in the car.  This prompted me to go out and purchase the sLver .  I do love that phone since I was able get rid of a lot of the happy to see you stuff in my pants!  However the phone sucks.  While it does serve my needs, I mean it does have blue-tooth, iTunes, and the phone :) it is an antiquated and boring device.  Just try to surf on it or use any of its other features.

Anyway, here comes iPhone.  Apples demo says it all.  The only hold back is the price.  However, the price will fall and fall rapidly.  I don't really see a need for an iPod anymore.  This is where I see it's advantage.  What Apple has done is create an iPod killer and not just a cell phone killer.  So while all of the naysayers are saying the price is high, which it is today or in June rather, whenever anyone needs a new phone or iPod it is definitely time to consider the iPhone.  Just wait until the storage is around 100G and the price is $299.