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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.

I just love these things… but I hear Bill Gates hates them - surprise, surprise! There were three new ads added to the Apple website ‘Get a Mac’ page today : ‘Choose a Vista’, ‘Genius’ and ‘Party is Over’.

‘Choose a Vista’ highlights the fiasco facing people trying to choose which version of Vista to upgrade to. Many people are making the best decision and saying “none of them!”

One of the ads I love the most however is an earlier one ‘Computer Cart’. This one is so painfully true, yet funny, that I had to stop watching it before I did myself an injury. Look for the “fatal error” part. Click on the thumbnails to watch the ads in HD in a new window.

Enjoy!

After many years using Microsoft Windows, I came to the conclusion that I had looked through too many ‘windows’ when I saw the latest ‘vista’ on offer from Microsoft.

It was… a vista too far.

I finally decided to go with the the best graphical user interface, on top of the best operating system (Unix/Linux) = Mac OS X, and buy a Mac!

I have now moved the whole family over to Macintoshes - and we haven’t looked back!

p.s. apologies to Cornelius Ryan (look at the title of the post), I’m sure he didn’t use Windows either.