How You’re Gonna Call?
OK it had to happen - so the question is… not the catchy song from the “Ghost Busters”, but the mobile phone manufacturer’s buster from Apple, and it is - “How You’re Gonna Call”? (and do many other things by the way besides).
The answer, very clearly on the 11th of July, for many many people was - via the Apple iPhone 3G.
The original iPhone was ground breaking (evidence the flurry of attempts by established mobile phone manufacturers at copying various aspects of the iPhone) the iPhone 3G with the new version 2 of the iPhone operating system (based on/essentially Mac OS X) is deal breaking.
I was on my way back from a business trip overseas, I wouldn’t be back home in time to be there to queue up at the stores when they opened July 11th! Oh no - what’s a guy to do? Why call up his better half from Bangkok and ask her to help! Wonderful lady that she is she beat off the opposition, and I got one of the (very) few available for sale in my town.
And yes, it is all that they say it is.
Well folks, I was going to hold off commenting on the iPhone, I mean what more could be said that hasn’t been done to death by countless ‘commentators’ far and wide.But this final word I could not resist… Now we really know who was first in line at the Apple store in New York - a closet Apple fan-boy named Steve!