Sep
17
Am I becoming an iNerd?
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This past weekend my blackberry decided to call it quits. The trackball stopped working along with several other buttons. This kind of thing happens to me from time to time as I’m pretty demanding of my phone, so I wasn’t all that surprised, but usually its a slow decay of sorts.
This time however it was more like an all out system failure. Given that Saturday night was a long and somewhat inebriated one, I had to rethink my night. Had I dropped it? Poured something on it? Sat on it? No, no, no. Ok so I didn’t do anything especially destructive to the phone (that I remember). No big deal, I’ll do what I always do when my phone hits the fritz. I’ll call Verizon and tell them to send me a new one, I’m sure I’m still under my warranty. FAIL. Long out of warranty.
Faced with the idea of spending a few hundred dollars on a new bberry I was somewhat disheartened. Luckily I am up for a new contract with Verizon and get a phone discount. Or…I could switch carriers and get a whole new service contract..and…dare I say it..an iPhone.
Suddenly my phone dilemma seems like an opportunity! New cool phone with lots of features and new services! And thats when it hit me…
I’m a Mac toting, soon to be iPhone using, apple evangelizing, startup dork. What happened? I used to be a IBM carrying, crackberry typing, die-hard PC proclaiming, strategy consultant. Just 12 months ago! I was hesitant about the Mac switch, but my team talked me into it and I’ve never looked back. I love the thing - its simple, powerful, wonderful, and supported by so many wonderful open-source applications. And now the iPhone? Maybe this is too much.
But if it is anything like the computer, I won’t be dissapointed. It seems everyone who has one loves it. And talks about it all the time. And tells you how much better it is than your phone. And did I mention can’t stop talking about it?
Do I want to be one of those people? Do I want to be a member of the Mac cult? Do I need to buy all the same stuff to “think differently” than everyone else?
The answer is, of course, an emphatic Hell No! But it might be too late. I’ll get the iPhone because it is a great device and I want one, but I have a few points that I will hold my ground on:
- I won’t wait in one of those damn lines at the Apple store to get it
- I won’t pull it out at every possible opportunity to show it off
- I won’t talk about it incessantly and argue its merits at dinner with people I don’t know that well
- I won’t buy over-priced Apple products just because they are made by Apple
- I won’t wait with baited breath for Steve Jobs to tell me about the next great Apple innovation
- I won’t read the MacRumors blog to find out about what is coming
- And most importantly, I won’t become an iNerd
Posted by: Connor Fee
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