You know, I really like where things are headed with the iPhone. I guess I should admit, though, that I'm a big fan of touchscreens in general (although they all currently "shaft" the blind). I wonder if Apple will introduce some kind of speech gesture recognition software to make it more accessible for people with disabilities? Maybe I can't find the "2" key beneath the glossy glass touchscreen, but I could draw a "2" with my finger. It's possible!
In any event, it'll be awhile before I consider switching over. Consolidating devices (browser, phone, music, email, etc.) is physically liberating, but it also introduces a single point of failure. Your music machine dies and guess what? You can't make a phone call, either! Mwah-ha-ha. No, I'll wait and see how things go. I'll let my supervisor be my guinea pig on this one. Maybe by the time I'm ready, they'll be giving these things away for free (or nearly free). You never know!
"When the iPhone was first announced, my co-worker, Adam, peeked his head over my cube wall and said, 'Your whole life has been leading up to this moment.' I burst out laughing, but realized how close to the truth he was," Porterfield said. Read more...
One machine I was a first adopter on was the Plymouth Neon. Ok, so it's a car, but a car is a machine! I knew they had screwed with the body design until it was a mere shadow of it's original peppy self, but I didn't realize that they had stopped making them altogether. How sad. Thanks to the trade-in habits of my parents, it was both my first car (a blue/turquoise SOHC base model) and my second (a fully-loaded purple DOHC espresso model). Sigh. Goodbye Neon. Though your trunk may have flooded in the rain (espresso, I'm looking at you), you both got me to Philly and back safely, not to mention rush hour through Charlotte during the height of I-77's reconstruction.
While the Chevrolet HHR and Toyota Matrix continue to be sold alongside the Chevrolet Cobalt and Toyota Corolla on which they are respectively based, the five-door Caliber is significant in that it replaces its sedan predecessor altogether. Read more...