Tech Time: Over to the Dark Side

I'm pained to admit that I've gone over to the Dark Side. I have a Mac and an iPhone and, as infuriating as I find the Mac and the iPhone, I'm not going back to a PC.

I can painlessly and effortlessly synch everything for the first time in my entire life. I can get apps like QuickCal, which make my life easier by orders of magnitude, yet are free or mainly cost me less than ten bucks. I can listen to music I like on Pandora because it magically arrives on my iPhone - and all I had to do was name one thing for it to do that.

I'm old enough to remember the time when the only game in town was an Apple desktop. Then VisiCalc came out. First of the Killer Apps, it stole Apple's lunch and vaulted the PC to the top. With the iPhone and the Apps, it seems Apple has finally learned its lesson and is baaaa-aaaackkkkk.

All I know is that all my technology is playing nicely for the first time ever and my life is much the better as a result.

iPhone

I have to admit it. The iPhone is starting to look good to me. This is not necessarily a BAD thing, I tell myself. It COULD be that there is some actual merit to the iPhone.

On the other hand, it's the apps that are catching my attention - not the features of the phone itself - unless you consider an app a feature.... So then am I just interested in the phone because of what is essentially a bunch of gimmicks? There's nothing wrong with that, I suppose, except I'd like to believe I'm harder to win over.

Who am I kidding? It's the apps. Especially the one that turns the iPhone into a compass.

Fortunately, I have a contract on my current phone so there's nothing I can do. At the moment ...