Out with work until the wee hours, I have a deficit of cleverness this morning. Yet through the foggy haze I can still see that this would irritate to no end if I could remember where that end is that gets irritated:
Following months of speculation, the iPhone has finally arrived. But after all the hype, it turns out that this next generation phone isn't a device from Apple Inc., and it doesn't play music. Instead, the iPhone is a VoIP handset made by Cisco Inc., through its Linksys networking division. The new line of iPhone devices allows people to make telephone calls over Internet connections as well as use other popular web features, such as Skype and Yahoo! Messenger with Voice.Are we that dense that sticking an "i" in front of a noun makes it hipper than eight years ago when everything had an "e" and a dash before it. So what are the opportunities? Some of my favorites in the old era were "e-legal" and "e-literate". I remember my grade five teacher used to say "iTaly" but that was just sorta sad.
Comments
Mike - December 19, 2006 11:43 AM
If I start getting imail, I'm just going to pronounce the "i" as an "e". Screw'em.
Alan - December 19, 2006 12:04 PM
Surely some of the Indo-European dialects have interesting shorter vowel sounds. I think we need to pronounce the "i" as sort of a "yie-augh" sound.
Gordo - December 19, 2006 12:05 PM
The sheeple have spoken, Alan. Stick 'i' on anything it and it sells like mad. Don't bother fighting it, the war is lost.
Alan - December 19, 2006 12:07 PM
That is an "yie-augh"-nteresting point of view.
Chris Taylor - December 19, 2006 12:25 PM
That's only half the picture Alan... iDevices have to be Apple-branded to be true must-have gadgets for the independent-minded urban hipster. Otherwise it's just an inferior corporate clone (like this Cisco VOIP thing) fit only for the suffocating, conformist cube-dwelling ash heap.
Alan - December 19, 2006 12:28 PM
"yie-augh"-ndependent is close to the the "e-literate thing": iNdependent.<p>And am I the only one more irritated by Apple cool dude than PC chubby suit dude? Man, I cannot stand that Apple punk. What a jerk.
Chris Taylor - December 19, 2006 12:52 PM
I think Mac OS X is an excellent home-user desktop operating system, heads and shoulders above anything available or planned from Microsoft. But those commercials really put me off the idea of buying any Apple hardware or software. I wouldn't self-identify as a suit-wearing geek necessarily, but I really resist the idea of self-identifying as a smug urban hipster.
The other thing that torpedoes Apple gear for me is the fact that in the world of multi-thousand-user corporate IT, Macs and Mac OS have a market share somewhere in the negative. When Apple starts making inroads into the corporate desktop space, then I will start getting interested and think about adding them to the home network/lab.
cm - December 19, 2006 1:38 PM
No, Alan, you're not the only one.
BR - December 19, 2006 2:25 PM
That link is hilarious cm. The kid was good in Ed though. really the best thing about the short lived show outside of the fact that the star was an ex queens bball player.
Alan - December 19, 2006 2:57 PM
That was really good, cm. I am not alone.