A few months back I listed my reasons for not getting an iPhone. After talking with friends *cough*dave*cough*, I pared down my true deal-breaker objections to two items: 1) locked to at&t with a two year contract, and 2) no third-party apps. None of that widget crap, I wanted real programs. Of course, even the first item I wasn’t really set on. My Treo had been resetting on me so much lately that I was really starting to want an iPhone and was even willing to consider jumping to AT&T.
If you’ve been paying attention to the news at all lately, you should know by now that both of those two issues have been “resolved”. Of course, both require third-party hacks and aren’t at all officially supported by T-Mo, but oh well. I drunk the koolaid anyway and am enjoying my iPhone on tmobile (for at least two more months until my tmo contract is up).
Of course I love the iPhone. It’s an amazing device with so many little features and improvements on the standard phone interface that you can’t help but love it. Oh, sure, you hate Apple for being stupid about restricting it and fighting a battle with those trying to unlock it, and there’s a long list of things I’d like to change about it, but for now I’m just content and happy that I have a phone that is a phenomenal phone and organizer, truly amazing web browser. And hey, if it happens to play movies and music really easily, so be it.
In other news, I’m starting a new job first thing in December. We’re moving to Melbourne. (No, not australia)It’s going to be really incredibly hard to leave Gainesville. I’ve already gotten misty-eyed a few times thinking about all the memories and friends we’ll be leaving behind, but it’s a definitely the right decision for us right now.
Wha? The Wiens are moving? That really comes as a surprise to me, I thought Gainesville had you guys for at least another 5 years. Are you allowed to divulge what your new job will be? Is it still going to be government, or are you moving into the private sector?
Left by Nate on October 1st, 2007
Hi Jordan,
Congrats on the new job. Greg was telling me about it. Hey, I am emailing for Joshua. He is 12 now and would like to learn how to get started at creating his own web site and eventually learn how to get into the computer world–probably programming games. We have a macbook and that is where he would like to start with creating web pages. What advice could you give us.
God Bless,
Tom and Josh
PS Did Greg email you about Frank Viola in Gainesville. You might really enjoy reading some of his stuff and chatting with him before you move.
Left by Tom and Josh Dumbacher on October 2nd, 2007