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…because you haven't heard enough about the iPhone yet…

Today I was talking to a person who mentioned they were going to buy the sprint version of the iPhone. I said, "huh? There's no such thing." They proceeded to tell me about the things that their phone could do, and that it was as good as an iPhone. Well, if you know me, then you also know that them's fightin' words.

So now I have to reflect.

To a person who doesn't use an iPhone, they just don't get it. Its the same exact thing I've said about windows users for years and years. They look at the mac and say, oh, I've got a pc and it's good enough. This person was looking at the iPhone and thinking it's just a phone that can run a calendar too.

It does that, but it does more.

The game changing that's going on around us because of Apple is amazing. With my iPhone, now I can control my television programs. Not only can I control them, but i get feedback on my iPhone as it's doing things. With my iPhone I can keep up with things that other people are doing. Zune thinks they have "the social?" It doesn't even compare with the social things on my iPhone. Oh, look, my friend WWP is nearby. I think I'll give him a shout out.

It's hard to describe to someone who doesn't use one. But people who have argued that whatever they have is good enough for years and years, are starting to come around.

Every day, the fanatical developers are making cooler software for it. It's almost like a crusade: what else can we use the accelerometers for? Let's find some way to make this application useful based on where you are when you use it.

Every day, it gets a little further ahead of those things that pretend to be in its league. Sure it's missing a thing or two, but there's always the next rev to fix it. It's like it's scoring a 98 and people are whining about the 2. My old RAZR would have been good to score a 30 on the same scale. We didn't miss cut and paste on it because it really was just a phone.

I was amazed last weekend when I was in Yakima and could not get a consistent reliable wifi connection for my mac. But my iPhone worked. I blogged from it. I reviewed restaurants from it. I found places on it. I took pictures with it and emailed them to the folks back home within seconds. I played games on it. I updated Flickr on it. I read articles from the NYTimes on it. I listened to music on it. I watched The Simpsons on it. I did all of the things that I would have normally done on my computer plus I even used it as a phone occasionally too.

Make no mistake, this little jewel is a pocket computer that just happens to have a phone built in. I've only had the new software for 5 days and it is already an integral part of my day to day routine. crazy. I'm excited to see where the software train is going to lead.